Posts Tagged: art

The Deleuzian Notion of the Image: Slicing the World, Or Cinema Beyond the Human (via Networkologies)

Crystal-image-eye: Deleuze‘s Worldslicing What precisely does Deleuze mean by cinema, and with it, the image? And why should a philosopher, or filmmaker, care? It seems to me that his radical notion of the image, straddling both philosophy and film, is

The Deleuzian Notion of the Image: Slicing the World, Or Cinema Beyond the Human (via Networkologies)

Crystal-image-eye: Deleuze‘s Worldslicing What precisely does Deleuze mean by cinema, and with it, the image? And why should a philosopher, or filmmaker, care? It seems to me that his radical notion of the image, straddling both philosophy and film, is

Cinema and Fetishism, or, The Commercial Value of Shit

Even shit has a commercial value, depending of course, on whose shit it is. While in the case of human shit you have to pay to get rid of it, in the case of animal shit it is said to

Cinema and Fetishism, or, The Commercial Value of Shit

Even shit has a commercial value, depending of course, on whose shit it is. While in the case of human shit you have to pay to get rid of it, in the case of animal shit it is said to

Bataille and the Surrealists: Is Pineal Eye an Organ Without a Body?

The pineal eye is not the organ that turns two different perspectives into one. It rather attempts to turn the reality inside out so that the objects, instead of becoming visible through reflecting light, themselves overflow their objectivities and generate light. The

Bataille and the Surrealists: Is Pineal Eye an Organ Without a Body?

The pineal eye is not the organ that turns two different perspectives into one. It rather attempts to turn the reality inside out so that the objects, instead of becoming visible through reflecting light, themselves overflow their objectivities and generate light. The

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Contemporary Art from Xetobyte

We’ve described surreal art and photography in many different ways – shocking, sweet, and even beautiful yet dark. One word we haven’t used yet is breathtaking. Xetobyte is a 20-year-old IT student who creates pieces that are just that. All

A_Break_in_Reality_by_xetobyte
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Contemporary Art from Xetobyte

We’ve described surreal art and photography in many different ways – shocking, sweet, and even beautiful yet dark. One word we haven’t used yet is breathtaking. Xetobyte is a 20-year-old IT student who creates pieces that are just that. All

Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) (author), Stuttgart,1926. Relief halftone.

Life and Death in a Raving New World (via senselogic) + Being Without Thought: The Unconscious and the Critique of Correlationism (via Complete Lies.)

Life and Death in a Raving New World (excerpt from The Life Death Drives) 1. Freud and Einstein In 1931 the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation invited certain intellectuals to communicate and think about the solutions to the problems facing

Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) (author), Stuttgart,1926. Relief halftone.

Life and Death in a Raving New World (via senselogic) + Being Without Thought: The Unconscious and the Critique of Correlationism (via Complete Lies.)

Life and Death in a Raving New World (excerpt from The Life Death Drives) 1. Freud and Einstein In 1931 the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation invited certain intellectuals to communicate and think about the solutions to the problems facing

Interview with James Williams

 James Williams teaches philosophy at the University of Dundee. He has written on French thinker Jean-François Lyotard, Lyotard: Towards a Postmodern Philosophy (Polity), Lyotard and the Political (Routledge) and with Keith Crome The Lyotard Reader and Guide (Edinburgh), on Gilles

Interview with James Williams

 James Williams teaches philosophy at the University of Dundee. He has written on French thinker Jean-François Lyotard, Lyotard: Towards a Postmodern Philosophy (Polity), Lyotard and the Political (Routledge) and with Keith Crome The Lyotard Reader and Guide (Edinburgh), on Gilles