Category Archives: Audio-Visual
Slavoj Žižek: The Empowerment of the Right and the Dissolution of the Left (Video)
“Slavoj Zizek was one of the speakers at the The empowerment of the Right, the dissolution of the Left event. The public sector is facing severe economy measures. The budgets for culture, education and health care are being cut. The
Slavoj Žižek: The Empowerment of the Right and the Dissolution of the Left (Video)
“Slavoj Zizek was one of the speakers at the The empowerment of the Right, the dissolution of the Left event. The public sector is facing severe economy measures. The budgets for culture, education and health care are being cut. The
Transdisciplinary Texts: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Audio)
Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Presents: Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts 2011–2013 (AHRC 914469) Workshop 2 Case Studies 1 – Transdisciplinary Texts: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Capitalism and Schizophrenia This two-day Workshop will examine the
Transdisciplinary Texts: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Audio)
Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Presents: Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts 2011–2013 (AHRC 914469) Workshop 2 Case Studies 1 – Transdisciplinary Texts: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Capitalism and Schizophrenia This two-day Workshop will examine the
Ken McMullen – Immortality and Cinema (Audio)
THE LONDON GRADUATE SCHOOL Presents Professor Ken McMullen(LCC) – Immortality and Cinema Ken McMullen is an award-winning film director and artist living currently in London. His feature films are distributed worldwide, his documentaries broadcast extensively and his art works exhibited in leading contemporary art
Ken McMullen – Immortality and Cinema (Audio)
THE LONDON GRADUATE SCHOOL Presents Professor Ken McMullen(LCC) – Immortality and Cinema Ken McMullen is an award-winning film director and artist living currently in London. His feature films are distributed worldwide, his documentaries broadcast extensively and his art works exhibited in leading contemporary art
Audio from Zizek’s Lecture – Cardiff 3rd March (via MarxLacanZizek)
via MarxLacanZizek Related articles Moby Dick, Existentialism, Stoicism – Herman Melville (Hubert Dreyfus lecture) Reading The UK Riots: Slavoj Zizek and Living in the End Times (via Reading The Riots) Slavoj Zizek at Birkbeck Institute Summer School, London, 28th June
Audio from Zizek’s Lecture – Cardiff 3rd March (via MarxLacanZizek)
via MarxLacanZizek Related articles Moby Dick, Existentialism, Stoicism – Herman Melville (Hubert Dreyfus lecture) Reading The UK Riots: Slavoj Zizek and Living in the End Times (via Reading The Riots) Slavoj Zizek at Birkbeck Institute Summer School, London, 28th June
Absolutely Postcolonial: The Empire Strikes Back – #LondonRiots in Videos
Bam Bam Breaks Mix (A tribute to London Riots)
Absolutely Postcolonial: The Empire Strikes Back – #LondonRiots in Videos
Bam Bam Breaks Mix (A tribute to London Riots)
La Jetée – Chris Marker (The classic short that inspired Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys)
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La Jetée – Chris Marker (The classic short that inspired Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys)
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to have done with life (Audio)
vitalism and antivitalism in contemporary philosophy _ zagreb, june 17-19, 2011 * right-click talk-title to download or left-click to stream the mp3-file _ Conference introduction [Petar Milat & Nathan Brown, 15min] _ ***** _ Jason Smith “Parallel Lives: Form-of-Life, Living
to have done with life (Audio)
vitalism and antivitalism in contemporary philosophy _ zagreb, june 17-19, 2011 * right-click talk-title to download or left-click to stream the mp3-file _ Conference introduction [Petar Milat & Nathan Brown, 15min] _ ***** _ Jason Smith “Parallel Lives: Form-of-Life, Living
DVNT – More’s the pity, Divinity
Artwork by makemassair DVNT – More’s the pity, Divinity Download Stream TRACKLIST AVOIDANT – Birth in Carpathia I [Enough Records] Pan Sonic – Hertsilogia / Herzlogy [Blast First Petite] + Kangding Ray – Pruitt Igoe (Alva Noto remodel) [Raster-Noton] Frank
DVNT – More’s the pity, Divinity
Artwork by makemassair DVNT – More’s the pity, Divinity Download Stream TRACKLIST AVOIDANT – Birth in Carpathia I [Enough Records] Pan Sonic – Hertsilogia / Herzlogy [Blast First Petite] + Kangding Ray – Pruitt Igoe (Alva Noto remodel) [Raster-Noton] Frank
Transcendental Realism (Audio via Deontologistics)
Greetings to all. It’s a bit late for an update, but, as others have already noted (here and here), the Transcendental Realism Workshop that happened last week went very well. I was most pleased with the way the various papers
Transcendental Realism (Audio via Deontologistics)
Greetings to all. It’s a bit late for an update, but, as others have already noted (here and here), the Transcendental Realism Workshop that happened last week went very well. I was most pleased with the way the various papers
The Weird: a discussion of fiction and politics with China Miéville
Event Date: 2 March 2011 Kingston University JG0002, John Galsworthy Building Penrhyn Road Campus Kingston KT1 2EE At the start of the twentieth century, H. P . Lovecraft summed up the encounter between horror and strangeness as ‘pictures of shattered
The Weird: a discussion of fiction and politics with China Miéville
Event Date: 2 March 2011 Kingston University JG0002, John Galsworthy Building Penrhyn Road Campus Kingston KT1 2EE At the start of the twentieth century, H. P . Lovecraft summed up the encounter between horror and strangeness as ‘pictures of shattered
Žižek – God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology (via Prōlogus)
From New York Public Library God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, the First Critique of Ideology (opens link to video) Download: Video (205.2MB MP4, 1 hr 46 min) Audio (48.5MB MP3, 1 hr 15 min) … Read More
Žižek – God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology (via Prōlogus)
From New York Public Library God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, the First Critique of Ideology (opens link to video) Download: Video (205.2MB MP4, 1 hr 46 min) Audio (48.5MB MP3, 1 hr 15 min) … Read More
Giorgio Agamben – What is a Commandment? (Audio)
Event Date: 28 March 2011 Clattern Lecture Theatre, Main Building Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston University The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) presents Giorgio Agamben (Visiting Professor, Philosophy, University of Paris) What is a Commandment? Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben – What is a Commandment? (Audio)
Event Date: 28 March 2011 Clattern Lecture Theatre, Main Building Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston University The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) presents Giorgio Agamben (Visiting Professor, Philosophy, University of Paris) What is a Commandment? Giorgio Agamben
The Philosophy of Literature (Audio)
Event date: 23 February-23 March 2011 Win1-04, Windsor Building Royal Holloway University The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: The Philosophy of Literature Organiser: Professor John O’Brien During the 1990s and the first
The Philosophy of Literature (Audio)
Event date: 23 February-23 March 2011 Win1-04, Windsor Building Royal Holloway University The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: The Philosophy of Literature Organiser: Professor John O’Brien During the 1990s and the first
David Foster Wallace, Slavoj Žižek, and Scatological Ideology (via biblioklept)
I came across this clip of Slavoj Žižek discussing the different types of toilets that one finds across Europe the other day, and his riff immediately reminded me of David Foster Wallace‘s novella The Suffering Channel (or “The Suffering Channel,”
David Foster Wallace, Slavoj Žižek, and Scatological Ideology (via biblioklept)
I came across this clip of Slavoj Žižek discussing the different types of toilets that one finds across Europe the other day, and his riff immediately reminded me of David Foster Wallace‘s novella The Suffering Channel (or “The Suffering Channel,”
On Modern Servitude (Film)
Click here to watch On Modern Servitude via Archive Fire “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Schopenhauer On Modern Servitude is a
On Modern Servitude (Film)
Click here to watch On Modern Servitude via Archive Fire “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Schopenhauer On Modern Servitude is a
Slavoj Žižek masterclasses, and Jacques Lacan lecture (via P e r ∙ C r u c e m ∙ a d ∙ L u c e m)
The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities has been hosting some ‘Masterclasses’ with Slavoj Žižek. The three talks are available for download here: The Idea of Communism and its Actuality (plus Q&A) (23rd March 2011) Lacan and Sexual Difference (plus Q&A)
Slavoj Žižek masterclasses, and Jacques Lacan lecture (via P e r ∙ C r u c e m ∙ a d ∙ L u c e m)
The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities has been hosting some ‘Masterclasses’ with Slavoj Žižek. The three talks are available for download here: The Idea of Communism and its Actuality (plus Q&A) (23rd March 2011) Lacan and Sexual Difference (plus Q&A)
Some of my favourite Detroit techno tracks (via Conatus)
Carl Craig, Derrick May, Detroit techno, Drexciya, Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance by kalleconatus I just wanted to post some of my all-time Detroit techno favourites. Here they are: Read More via Conatus
Some of my favourite Detroit techno tracks (via Conatus)
Carl Craig, Derrick May, Detroit techno, Drexciya, Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance by kalleconatus I just wanted to post some of my all-time Detroit techno favourites. Here they are: Read More via Conatus
The Imprisoned Creators of Our Times
The recent developments in electronic music present us with a good example of how the inorganic has become, at least in sound, more organic than the organic. With the rapid development of sound-producing machines it has become possible to create
The Imprisoned Creators of Our Times
The recent developments in electronic music present us with a good example of how the inorganic has become, at least in sound, more organic than the organic. With the rapid development of sound-producing machines it has become possible to create
Guitar Idol 2010: İnanç Ersen – Breaking Through (Video)
Click here to vote for İnanç Ersen’s Breaking Through.
Guitar Idol 2010: İnanç Ersen – Breaking Through (Video)
Click here to vote for İnanç Ersen’s Breaking Through.
MANTIS 075 + VOCODE RECORDS
Mantis Radio 075 + Vocode Records by Darkfloor on Mixcloud DOWNLOAD STREAM ITUNES RSS hour 1 / DVNT Randomform – Segment Slipp [Plataforma-LTW] 8Bitch – In the Moog for Love [Svetlana Industries] Maps + Diagrams – Savannakhet [Yuki Yaki] Herzog
MANTIS 075 + VOCODE RECORDS
Mantis Radio 075 + Vocode Records by Darkfloor on Mixcloud DOWNLOAD STREAM ITUNES RSS hour 1 / DVNT Randomform – Segment Slipp [Plataforma-LTW] 8Bitch – In the Moog for Love [Svetlana Industries] Maps + Diagrams – Savannakhet [Yuki Yaki] Herzog
The Black Dog – UR, We Are – One Hour With Underground Resistance
The Black Dog – UR, We Are – One Hour With Underground Resistance by The Black Dog tracklist: 1. Antimatter – Underground Resistance 2. Voice Of Electrifying Mojo 3. Afrogermanic – Underground Resistance 4. Mirage – Underground Resistance 5. Windchime
The Black Dog – UR, We Are – One Hour With Underground Resistance
The Black Dog – UR, We Are – One Hour With Underground Resistance by The Black Dog tracklist: 1. Antimatter – Underground Resistance 2. Voice Of Electrifying Mojo 3. Afrogermanic – Underground Resistance 4. Mirage – Underground Resistance 5. Windchime
Aklın sınırlarına ve ötesindeki sonsuzluğa yaptığı yolculuklarda Kant hep yalnızdı
Konferans bittikten sonra derin bir hayâl kırıklığına uğramış vaziyette devletler platformunun kendilerine tahsis ettiği eve dönen üç silahşörler, kara kara istihbarat teşkilatı baş sorumlusuna ne diyeceklerini düşünmektedir. Müfettiş ve çavuş kendi ülkelerindeki istihbarat birimlerinin nasıl olup da bu kadar vahim
Aklın sınırlarına ve ötesindeki sonsuzluğa yaptığı yolculuklarda Kant hep yalnızdı
Konferans bittikten sonra derin bir hayâl kırıklığına uğramış vaziyette devletler platformunun kendilerine tahsis ettiği eve dönen üç silahşörler, kara kara istihbarat teşkilatı baş sorumlusuna ne diyeceklerini düşünmektedir. Müfettiş ve çavuş kendi ülkelerindeki istihbarat birimlerinin nasıl olup da bu kadar vahim
MANTIS RADIO 067 + RABID GRAVY + STURQEN
Mantis Radio 067 + Rabid Gravy + Sturqen by Darkfloor on Mixcloud Stream Download Tracklist / Chapters Hour 1 / Dvnt 1 *Com Truise Pyragony DOWNLOAD 2 Hoehle Neon Rhodes DOWNLOAD 3 Mr. Seavers Dishonourable Discharge DOWNLOAD 4
MANTIS RADIO 067 + RABID GRAVY + STURQEN
Mantis Radio 067 + Rabid Gravy + Sturqen by Darkfloor on Mixcloud Stream Download Tracklist / Chapters Hour 1 / Dvnt 1 *Com Truise Pyragony DOWNLOAD 2 Hoehle Neon Rhodes DOWNLOAD 3 Mr. Seavers Dishonourable Discharge DOWNLOAD 4
Mazzula – 6 cans o’ Red Stripe and I’ll have 10 B&H silver as well please.
Mazzula – 6 cans o redstripe and i’l have 10 b&h silver as well please. by Mazzula download stream TRACKLIST Cynthia Stern – Follow (Mazzula Rework) Mazzula – Arp Denial Mazzula – Two Oscillators are Enough Mazzula – Harsh Boy
Mazzula – 6 cans o’ Red Stripe and I’ll have 10 B&H silver as well please.
Mazzula – 6 cans o redstripe and i’l have 10 b&h silver as well please. by Mazzula download stream TRACKLIST Cynthia Stern – Follow (Mazzula Rework) Mazzula – Arp Denial Mazzula – Two Oscillators are Enough Mazzula – Harsh Boy
“Ölüm ve Kapitalizm” Konferansı
Araya pek çok ahkâm tohumu serpiştirdiğimizin farkındayız. Lâkin farkında olduğumuz bir başka şey de bizim, bu anlatının yazarı ve/veya yazarları olarak, okuyucularımıza sadece zevk vermek ve hoş vakit geçirmelerini sağlamak için yazmadığımız gerçeğidir. Son derece önemli mevzuları mercek altına alıyoruz
“Ölüm ve Kapitalizm” Konferansı
Araya pek çok ahkâm tohumu serpiştirdiğimizin farkındayız. Lâkin farkında olduğumuz bir başka şey de bizim, bu anlatının yazarı ve/veya yazarları olarak, okuyucularımıza sadece zevk vermek ve hoş vakit geçirmelerini sağlamak için yazmadığımız gerçeğidir. Son derece önemli mevzuları mercek altına alıyoruz
In Memoriam Alexandros Grigoropoulos: Remember Remember, the Sixth of December!
The police murder of Andreas Grigoropoulos Greek teen died from bullet ricochet: court sources, ATHENS (AFP) Initial results from the post-mortem on a Greek teenager whose killing by police sparked five days of rioting show Alexis Grigoropoulos died from a
In Memoriam Alexandros Grigoropoulos: Remember Remember, the Sixth of December!
The police murder of Andreas Grigoropoulos Greek teen died from bullet ricochet: court sources, ATHENS (AFP) Initial results from the post-mortem on a Greek teenager whose killing by police sparked five days of rioting show Alexis Grigoropoulos died from a
MANTIS 072 + T-POLAR (Breakstep/Dubstep/Future Garage/Techno)
Mantis Radio 072 + T-Polar by Darkfloor on Mixcloud DOWNLOAD STREAM iTUNES RSS hour 1 / DVNT Goblin – Suspiria [Cinevox Record] 65daysofstatic – Crash Tactics [Hassle Records] Mad EP – Brooklyn Freestyle [Marasm] forthcoming James Blake – Klavierwerks [R+S]
MANTIS 072 + T-POLAR (Breakstep/Dubstep/Future Garage/Techno)
Mantis Radio 072 + T-Polar by Darkfloor on Mixcloud DOWNLOAD STREAM iTUNES RSS hour 1 / DVNT Goblin – Suspiria [Cinevox Record] 65daysofstatic – Crash Tactics [Hassle Records] Mad EP – Brooklyn Freestyle [Marasm] forthcoming James Blake – Klavierwerks [R+S]
Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek – Philosophy and Communism (10/15/2010 Video)
A Lacanian Ink Event – Jack Tilton Gallery – NYC, 10/15/2010 Introduction by Josefina Ayerza
Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek – Philosophy and Communism (10/15/2010 Video)
A Lacanian Ink Event – Jack Tilton Gallery – NYC, 10/15/2010 Introduction by Josefina Ayerza
Henry Miller interview – Asleep and Awake (via ideologic)
via ideologic
David Cronenberg on Andy Warhol (Audio)
David Cronenberg – Introduction David Cronenberg – National Velvet, 1963 – Empire, 1964 – Andy Warhol by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1986 David Cronenberg – Troy Diptych, 1962 David Moss, David Cronenberg, Dennis Hopper, Amy Taubin, James Rosenquist – Couch, 1964
David Cronenberg on Andy Warhol (Audio)
David Cronenberg – Introduction David Cronenberg – National Velvet, 1963 – Empire, 1964 – Andy Warhol by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1986 David Cronenberg – Troy Diptych, 1962 David Moss, David Cronenberg, Dennis Hopper, Amy Taubin, James Rosenquist – Couch, 1964
DJ Set @ Bethanian 01.10.10 by swarmintelligence
S w a r m //// I n t e l l i g e n c e DJ Set @ Bethanian 01.10.10 Download01. The Bug – Skeng (Autechre Remix) 02. Terror Danjah – Acid 03. Baobinga & ID –
DJ Set @ Bethanian 01.10.10 by swarmintelligence
S w a r m //// I n t e l l i g e n c e DJ Set @ Bethanian 01.10.10 Download01. The Bug – Skeng (Autechre Remix) 02. Terror Danjah – Acid 03. Baobinga & ID –
Slavoj Zizek – Subversive Politics of Dirty Testicles?
A joke about dissidents and a great speech from Zizek - It’s the Political Economy, Stupid! Watch the youtube video and here’s the text: “In the good old days of Really-Existing Socialism, a joke was popular among dissidents, used to illustrate the
Slavoj Zizek – Subversive Politics of Dirty Testicles?
A joke about dissidents and a great speech from Zizek - It’s the Political Economy, Stupid! Watch the youtube video and here’s the text: “In the good old days of Really-Existing Socialism, a joke was popular among dissidents, used to illustrate the
Philosophy as Biography by Alain Badiou + Postfelsefe nasıl hadım eder, ya da neden XI. tez tersine çevrilmeli üzerine (via Mutlak Töz)
• Philosophy as Biography • • Alain Badiou • “Nietzsche wrote that a philosophy is always the biography of the philosopher. Maybe a biography of the philosopher by the philosopher himself is a piece of philosophy. So I shall tell
Philosophy as Biography by Alain Badiou + Postfelsefe nasıl hadım eder, ya da neden XI. tez tersine çevrilmeli üzerine (via Mutlak Töz)
• Philosophy as Biography • • Alain Badiou • “Nietzsche wrote that a philosophy is always the biography of the philosopher. Maybe a biography of the philosopher by the philosopher himself is a piece of philosophy. So I shall tell
Simon Critchley – To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die (Video) + Creatureliness and Immortality + Method and Consequences of The Life Death Drives
Creatureliness and Immortality (via Speculative Humbug) [I now think the opinions expressed here are massively too hasty - this issue of meaning and finitude requires a lot more thought - but I'll leave the original post up anyway.] I’ve just
Simon Critchley – To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die (Video) + Creatureliness and Immortality + Method and Consequences of The Life Death Drives
Creatureliness and Immortality (via Speculative Humbug) [I now think the opinions expressed here are massively too hasty - this issue of meaning and finitude requires a lot more thought - but I'll leave the original post up anyway.] I’ve just
Video: Slavoj Žižek – Living In The End Times
Slavoj Žižek talks about his new book Living in the End Times in this audience based video filmed at LSE. Related Articles VIDEOS: The Beatniks of Greenwich Village (psychedelichippiemusic.blogspot.com) Interview with Slavoj Zizek: “Neoliberalism is in Crisis” (via Greek Left Review)
Video: Slavoj Žižek – Living In The End Times
Slavoj Žižek talks about his new book Living in the End Times in this audience based video filmed at LSE. Related Articles VIDEOS: The Beatniks of Greenwich Village (psychedelichippiemusic.blogspot.com) Interview with Slavoj Zizek: “Neoliberalism is in Crisis” (via Greek Left Review)
CORNELL SOCIETY FOR THE HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIPS 2011-2012 (CULTURE, THEORY, PRACTICE, POLITICS)
Timothy Murray, Director of the Society for the Humanities, is pleased to announce the 2011-2012 research focal theme: “Sound: Culture, Theory, Practice, Politics.” Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. ALL FOR FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS The Society for the Humanities invites
CORNELL SOCIETY FOR THE HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIPS 2011-2012 (CULTURE, THEORY, PRACTICE, POLITICS)
Timothy Murray, Director of the Society for the Humanities, is pleased to announce the 2011-2012 research focal theme: “Sound: Culture, Theory, Practice, Politics.” Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. ALL FOR FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS The Society for the Humanities invites
Examined Life (Video)
”In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singer’s thoughts on the ethics of consumption
Examined Life (Video)
”In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singer’s thoughts on the ethics of consumption
The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka (Video) + İzolasyon ve Yaratıcılık
A short film adaptation based on Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”. Early work by filmmaker Carlos Atanes, 1994. İzolasyon ve Yaratıcılık Eğer bunalımlı, yani depresif bir şahsiyet biraz yetenekliyse evden çıkıp toplumsallaşma uğruna saçmalamak yerine odaya kapanıp yaratıcı yazarlığa, müziğe veya ressamlığa falan
The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka (Video) + İzolasyon ve Yaratıcılık
A short film adaptation based on Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”. Early work by filmmaker Carlos Atanes, 1994. İzolasyon ve Yaratıcılık Eğer bunalımlı, yani depresif bir şahsiyet biraz yetenekliyse evden çıkıp toplumsallaşma uğruna saçmalamak yerine odaya kapanıp yaratıcı yazarlığa, müziğe veya ressamlığa falan


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