What will I ever do with my life?: It is not the journey that ...
Fine fiction currently on my nightstand. Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco (loving it so far); Den Afrikanske Farm by Karen Blixen (quite a few nature descriptions in rather archaic Danish, but I'm plowing on) ...
Posted 07/04/2009 at 02:30PM EST
ANTHEM » Blog Archive » The Speculative Turn
Alain Badiou; Ray Brassier; Nathan Brown; Levi Bryant; Gabriel Catren; Manuel DeLanda; Iain Hamilton Grant; Martin Hägglund; Peter Hallward; Graham Harman; Adrian Johnston; Francois Laruelle; Bruno Latour; Quentin Meillassoux ...
Posted 07/04/2009 at 01:21PM EST
Stalin's Moustache: Criticism of Religion out now!
Criticism of Religion deals with Lucien Goldmann, Fredric Jameson, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Kautsky, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams. Now I know that the € 99.00 price tag is hefty by most ...
Posted 07/04/2009 at 12:20PM EST
Stalin's Moustache: Criticism of Religion out now!
Criticism of Religion deals with Lucien Goldmann, Fredric Jameson, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Kautsky, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams. Now I know that the € 99.00 price tag is hefty by most ...
Posted 07/04/2009 at 12:20PM EST
Official Proclamation of International Day of Cooperatives ...
It is similar, though not identical, to critical postmodernism and to the post-Marxism of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. To elaborate, just as some first-generational critical theorists supplemented Karl Ma […] ...
Posted 07/04/2009 at 08:51AM EST
Talkitecture: The High Line: and the Spectacular Rebirth of Public ...
One is reminded of the tale by Borges as told by Jean Baudrillard, of the myth where a map of the city is drawn so detailed that when it is laid on top of the actual city, it covers exactly the same area. Over time, the map withers, ...
Posted 07/04/2009 at 07:34AM EST
football is fixed: Too Illegit To Quit #
We even hanged horses" - Michel Foucault. Some things are simply too surreal - the duck-billed platypus, a cap-and-trade scheme alongside a protectionist carbon tax on imports as a cure-all for climate change, your average Werner Herzog ...
Posted 07/04/2009 at 07:22AM EST
Your New and Improved Unemployment Numbers: Another Involuntary ...
"Writing and Difference" by Jacques Derrida http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Difference-Jacques-Derrida/dp/0226143295 ................. "Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology" by Jacques Derrida ...
Posted 07/04/2009 at 02:59AM EST
PellBilling.com: Gender Studies Dismissed! - antimisandry.com
These are Catharine M MackInnon's Radical Feminism , Anna G Jonasdottir's Theory of Love Power, Luce Irigaray's Feminism of Sexual Difference and Judith Butler's Queer Feminism . The English abstract only summarizes her findings on the ...
Posted 07/04/2009 at 02:42AM EST
Take of it as two languages – one, your own, probably composed from a human language (for instance, see Umberto Eco on Language influencing and forming thoughts) and the other, the human language, perfect for your expressions but not at ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 09:14PM EST
Bookstores as reality check « Southern California Writers' Conference
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. A bookstore is always a healthy reality check on society. Here the recommended reading list includes two books by a U.S. President (note one is in Arabic); a frequently banned or censored book in the ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 08:10PM EST
A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter: Happy ...
Currently Reading: Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive; Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 06:09PM EST
Semiotics: A Powerful Communication Tool For Designers
We indicate some good books to go deep into semiotics concepts like “This Means This, This Means That: A User's Guide to Semiotics” by Sean Hall, Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco (largely known name in semiotics) and Semiotics and the ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 04:44PM EST
Freedom to Choose for Yourself at Sensual Stories
I considered the words of Helene Cixous who claimed that Woman “writes in white ink.” This statement, so simple, holds many possibilities for interpretation. On the one hand, it seems that women must speak in code to have their words ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 04:09PM EST
A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter: Alain de ...
Currently Reading: Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive; Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 12:38PM EST
Desicritics.org: Revisiting the Pakistani Grand Narrative
This “incredulity” or disbelief towards grand narrative was articulated by Jean-François Lyotard in his seminal document The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979). He viewed the construction, existence and influence of ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 12:30PM EST
Alice Rabbit: VA - MINUTES LTM V:XV (1987)
JACQUES DERRIDA - God And Suffering JACQUES DERRIDA - Deconstruction And Necessity JACQUES DERRIDA - Post Marxism And Late Capitalism JACQUES DERRIDA - Rationality And Irrationality JACQUES DERRIDA - The Shock Of My New (more info here) ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 12:15PM EST
Forthcoming – Giorgio Agamben: The Idea of Justice and the Uses of ...
This book offers a thorough introduction to, and engagement with, the jurisprudential, political and philosophical thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Critically introducing Agamben's work to both a ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 09:05AM EST
Fury (of the Illuminati) - A Clockpunk Screenplay - digital Artform
I was sitting in the courtyard of the Cat & Fiddle restaurant on a warm evening in Hollywood, immediately adjacent to my office at RGA/LA (now Imaginary Forces) thinking about the Umberto Eco book, The Name of the Rose. ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 08:48AM EST
More (including Foucault) after the jump. MICHEL FOUCAULT. Michel Foucault, When moanin' low, Wrapped up his nethers. In studs & leathers. And another: SLAVOJ ZIZEK. Communist Slovene, Slavoj Žižek Cashed a shameful if handsome paycheck ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 06:26AM EST
ButterSuite: The Last Supper / Call for Lady Bakers and Domestic ...
Because much of my academic work has focused on performance (cabaret/burlesque and pornography in undergrad, disabled dance performance in grad) and has been heavily informed by Judith Butler's notions of gender performance (and the ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 04:43AM EST
(568) Stift Melk / Melk Abbey, Austria on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Since 1625 the abbey has been a member of the Austrian Congregation, now within the Benedictine Confederation. In his well-known novel The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco named one of the protagonists "Adson von Melk" as a tribute to the ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 04:17AM EST
More (including Foucault) after the jump. MICHEL FOUCAULT. Michel Foucault, When moanin' low, Wrapped up his nethers. In studs & leathers. And another: SLAVOJ ZIZEK. Communist Slovene, Slavoj Žižek Cashed a shameful if handsome paycheck ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 02:56AM EST
THE FLUX I SHARE: G-L-Vidiamodopo: Poetry Mag's Flarf Issue & the ...
Is this not related in its own fashion to that description of masochism given by Gilles Deleuze as “a father is being beaten,” with here the father being al that a Father can stand for, while the scions are after all all that the ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 02:13AM EST
Fifteen Books That Stick With You | Chris Abraham
... Tender is the Night — F. Scott Fitzgerald; Foucault's Pendulum — Umberto Eco. Yes, Kathryn and I studied English in college — I majored in American Literature and Creative Writing — so I guess it shows… Here are the rules: ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 01:43AM EST
Review of the Coming Insurrection by Red Emma's Bookstore ...
... drawn from Deleuze and Guattari, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben and others surface throughout the text, which also distills down some of the conceptual work done in the (largely still untranslated) two issues of the journal Tiqqun. ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 01:32AM EST
Review of the Coming Insurrection by Red Emma's Bookstore ...
... drawn from Deleuze and Guattari, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben and others surface throughout the text, which also distills down some of the conceptual work done in the (largely still untranslated) two issues of the journal Tiqqun. ...
Posted 07/03/2009 at 01:32AM EST
DAVID-BAPTISTE CHIROT: G-L-Vidiamodopo: Poetry Mag's Flarf Issue ...
Is this not related in its own fashion to that description of masochism given by Gilles Deleuze as “a father is being beaten,” with here the father being al that a Father can stand for, while the scions are after all all that the ...
Posted 07/02/2009 at 11:42PM EST
It occurred to me recently… « The Blotted Line
To this end, I've picked up more Judith Butler (yes, I will finish Bodies That Matter this time around) and Luce Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman. I also finally acquired Andrew Gurr's The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642 (4th ...
Posted 07/02/2009 at 11:03PM EST
More (including Foucault) after the jump. MICHEL FOUCAULT. Michel Foucault, When moanin' low, Wrapped up his nethers. In studs & leathers. And another: SLAVOJ ZIZEK. Communist Slovene, Slavoj Žižek Cashed a shameful if handsome paycheck ...
Posted 07/02/2009 at 09:11PM EST
radio deleuze: alain badiou on the the bbc -Communism is the right ...
alain badiou on the the bbc -Communism is the right idea. Alain Badiou speaking to| l bbc guy| in the bbc in March |Stephen Sackur| I think Badious holds himself up very well in the middle of the largest British media ~ ...
Posted 07/02/2009 at 08:28PM EST