Bill Martin: Into the Wild – 2 | khukuri
This is a critique that more recently has its basis in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Antonio Negri, and before that in various currents of anarchism, situationism, and Italian autonomism. (Before they became famous as the thinkers of ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 04:00PM EST
zoran rosko vacuum player: Kodwo Eshun – Sonic fiction: the ...
Eshun takes everyone from Sun Ra and John Coltrane to Kool Keith and Grandmaster Flash and sieves them through the theories of everyone from Paul Virilio and Gilles Deleuze to Marshall McLuhan and Manuel De Landa. ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 02:28PM EST
somewhere in the east: Who is Michel Foucault ？
When I was in college, I studied French culture and philosophy.I was eager to learn Michel Foucault's thought.Because he was a kind of philosofic hero in Japan. Today, I am not so facsinated with his thought.Because his way of thinking ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 01:25PM EST
Music Inspired by Art | DoD Live
It's what he French philosopher Jean Baudrillard referred to as “simulacra and simulation” which is the philosophical idea that the copy of the object can, through time, replace the very object it was intended to represent. ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 01:04PM EST
Inverted Panoptic Surveillance « ICT4Accountability
In his book 'Discipline and Punish' (1977), one of the most influential theorizers of modern society, Michel Foucault, describes the panoptic prison as a metaphor for the power relations within modern society. The prison was originally ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 12:49PM EST
art's self- awareness « Absent Minded Visual Art
im going to copy in an extract from 'The conspiracy of art' by Jean Baudrillard, this is a chapter called 'introduction: the piracy of art' by Sylvere Lottringer. The chapter defends Baudrillards comment on art being 'null' , saying not ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 12:05PM EST
Reading Like a Middle Easterner - by Lee Smith > Tablet Magazine ...
French literary critics like Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes introduced a vision of the text as a tricky, shape-shifting improvisation; their American disciples like Stanley Fish proposed that these texts only acquire meaning through ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 12:00PM EST
Deleuze Cinema Project 1: Fatal Circuits. Marcel Carné. Daybreak ...
Gilles Deleuze. Cinema 2: The Time Image. Cinéma 2: L'image-temps. Ch3 From Recollection to Dreams: Third Commentary on Bergson. Du souvenir aux rêves (troisième commentaire de Bergson). 2c. The two poles of the flashback: Carné, ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 10:35AM EST
Blunt & Disorderly: Slavoj Žižek, liberalism and religion
I went to hear Slavoj Žižek speak at Cardiff University last week. He was certainly interesting, albeit at his most incoherent. I must admit I found the ideas he put forward contradictory and the lecture inconclusive. I blame Lacan. ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 09:21AM EST
Avant-Garde Media: The UbuWeb Collection | Open Culture
The Violence of the Image – Jean Baudrillard lectures at the European Graduate School. Un Chant d'Amour – French writer Jean Genet's only film from 1950. Because of its explicit (though artistically presented) homosexual content, ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 07:07AM EST
RECYCLED IMAGES: Detournement!
He is often spoken of in the same breath as his contemporary Jean Baudrillard who used the term 'simulacra' rather than Debord's 'spectacle'. We watched an excerpt of the classic 1973 SI film Can Dialectics Break Bricks? by Rene Vienet, ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 03:23AM EST
Notes towards a political theater « writing.performance
As Giorgio Agamben has shown, the excision in language precedes the literal excision from society into indefinite detention, outside of legal process. Refugee detention is not genocide, but its enabling logic follows the same path. ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 03:21AM EST
WHEN ROSMA IS RUNNING THE affairs of state as Prime Minister NAJIB ...
Umberto Eco, in his article, “The Wolf and the Lamb – The Rhetoric of Oppression” (from which the title to this article is borrowed), posits that often enough, an oppressor – such as a dictator – would try to legitimise his oppression. ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 02:57AM EST
The Red Book of C. G. Jung: The Red Book and Difference
With his 1968 paper "Différance" , Jacques Derrida introduced a notion that was to have a variety of ramifications in philosophy, literature and political thought. Derrida hcreating a "difference" in the spelling of his term by ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 02:07AM EST
Sade's La Philosophie dans le boudoir: A “Must” of the French ...
Schmitt's recent reception includes contributions by, among others, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, Chantal Mouffe, and Slavoj Zizek. While neither eighteenth-century studies nor the study of the French Revolution more ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 01:23AM EST
Hipster Runoff Exegesis: 9 March 2010: "THE ALT REPORT opens 'TIP ...
Michel Foucault famously adopted the concept as metaphor for the carceral society, in which ideological discipline operates regardless of the presence of overseers or punishers. The presence of the observer is instead always assumed. ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 01:21AM EST
Garbo Hates Hermeneutics: I'd like to drink my coffee in the rain.
Currently Reading. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Vol. II - Gordon Dahlquist . Symbolic Exchange and Death - Jean Baudrillard. Little Curiosities. www.flickr.com. This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from Haywain McTarry. ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 01:03AM EST
Saishigo: What follows will be a collective blog dedicated to mapping a number of connections between the writings of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the work of various media theorists, and contemporary art practice. ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 12:02AM EST
Jean Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulation Roland Barthes – S/Z. Nota Bene: the key to reading theory, especially at first, is not to bother with “understanding” what is being presented, but rather to “soak in it. ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 11:41PM EST
When David Brooks & Slavoj Zizek Agree: Is the Apocalypse Near ...
Who would have thought that it would take the block buster film Avatar to get David Brooks, condescending spokesman for the establishment, and Slavoj Zizek, the hyper caffeinated Marxist, to agree on something. ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 11:40PM EST
Jean Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulation Roland Barthes – S/Z. Nota Bene: the key to reading theory, especially at first, is not to bother with “understanding” what is being presented, but rather to “soak in it. ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 09:33PM EST
New blog post Judith Butler. Hannah Arendt, Ethics, and Responsibility. 2009 1/10 here: http://health.worldonlinereview.com/2010/03/09/judith-butler-hannah-arendt-ethics-and-responsibility-2009-110/
Posted 03/09/2010 at 08:31PM EST
Alobar Greywalker: Magickal Record (aka Frater PVN, LA-BAJ-AL ...
Slavoj Žižek: 'Cameron's Avatar is a conservative, racist fantasy'. I keep reading comments about the movie Avatar in various blogs. Some love it; others don't like the plotline and assumptions. I have never watched it, ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 07:53PM EST
Solomonia Quicklinks: Collaborators in the War against the Jews ...
Collaborators in the War against the Jews: Judith Butler - 'Professor Judith Butler from Berkeley's Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature is not just your ordinary deconstructionist feminist anti-Semite. ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 07:52PM EST
Slavoj Žižek: 'Cameron's Avatar is a conservative, racist fantasy ...
Return of the natives: Beneath the idealism and political correctness of Avatar, in the spotlight at the Oscars on Sunday, lie brutal racist.
Posted 03/09/2010 at 06:00PM EST
Muntz Library Features Book Display for Women's History Month 2010 ...
“Hailed as “one of the most significant contributions yet made to feminist literature” by The New York Review of Books and praised by Michel Foucault as being “remarkable for its rediscovering of texts and also for its study of feelings ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 04:40PM EST
Collaborators in the War against the Jews: Judith Butler ...
by Steven Plaut Professor Judith Butler from Berkeley's Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature is not just your ordinary deconstructionist.
Posted 03/09/2010 at 04:00PM EST
Clarissa's Blog: Slavoj Zizek on Freedom
Slavoj Zizek on Freedom. I'm sorry, people, but I will continue bombarding you with quotes from Zizek. His writing is so beautiful and powerful, that I simply have to share it. This is Zizek on freedom and the true meaning of democracy: ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 02:55PM EST
» A Lesson in (Public) Sex Ed from Aaron Sleazy: Rob's Review of ...
If a line exists between Tucker Max and Charles Bukowski, Penthouse Letters and Michel Foucault, exhibitionism and self-improvement, then Aaron Sleazy straddles it. And, as his book recounts, it's not the only thing Sleazy's straddling. ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 02:00PM EST
Lisa Gornick on Hélène Cixous (Part 1) « Bagels and Books
Lisa Gornick on Hélène Cixous (Part 1). Lisa Gornick is a filmmaker. She has written and directed two feature films: Do I Love You? (2003) and Tick Tock Lullaby (2007). Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 01:02PM EST
Zavier Ellis AKA Charlie Smith: 'Choose life or celebrate at the ...
According to one of the leading philosophers of art today, Alain Badiou, there are two conflicting and constitutive poles of contemporary art, two norms of what a subject is, two subjective paradigms at war with each other: the subject ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 12:29PM EST