Posts Tagged: literature
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
Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations from Dr. Lawgiverz (3)
If you were to ask me at gunpoint, like Hollywood producers who are too stupid to read books and say, “give me the punchline,” and were to demand, “Three sentences. What are you really trying to do?” I would
Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations from Dr. Lawgiverz (3)
If you were to ask me at gunpoint, like Hollywood producers who are too stupid to read books and say, “give me the punchline,” and were to demand, “Three sentences. What are you really trying to do?” I would
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,”
S.C. Hickman on J.G. Ballard: Icarus and the Dying Fall into Nothingness
“For Bataille, the reason why people see the foot as inferior to the head is their habit of attributing a higher status to the vertical forms of thought. Man should fall on his four legs, otherwise he will never be
S.C. Hickman on J.G. Ballard: Icarus and the Dying Fall into Nothingness
“For Bataille, the reason why people see the foot as inferior to the head is their habit of attributing a higher status to the vertical forms of thought. Man should fall on his four legs, otherwise he will never be
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
Graham Harman: The Object Smasher; or, the rhetorics of rubble (via Dark Chemistry)
Here is another nice post from Dark Chemistry on Graham Harman as smasher of objects, which he opens with a fine quote from one of my articles on Artaud, Deleuze, will to nothingness and literature. life span of a full moon.
Graham Harman: The Object Smasher; or, the rhetorics of rubble (via Dark Chemistry)
Here is another nice post from Dark Chemistry on Graham Harman as smasher of objects, which he opens with a fine quote from one of my articles on Artaud, Deleuze, will to nothingness and literature. life span of a full moon.
“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me?” (Beckett – 2)
Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me? Answer simply. It’s the same old stranger as ever,
“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me?” (Beckett – 2)
Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me? Answer simply. It’s the same old stranger as ever,
A Conversation Around Nietzsche Between a Stoic and a Sceptic
Sceptic: Nietzsche is one of those who do philosophy departing from a wound, from a deep-seated internal problem… The wound is internal to Nietzsche but the source of this wound is external, so you see, he is in-between. He attacks both
A Conversation Around Nietzsche Between a Stoic and a Sceptic
Sceptic: Nietzsche is one of those who do philosophy departing from a wound, from a deep-seated internal problem… The wound is internal to Nietzsche but the source of this wound is external, so you see, he is in-between. He attacks both
Time Travel (31 eBooks to Download)
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells The book’s protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model
Time Travel (31 eBooks to Download)
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells The book’s protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model
Henry Miller interview – Asleep and Awake (via ideologic)
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Society and Space issue 5 (via Progressive Geographies)
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space volume 28 issue 5 has now been published online and is available here. Among other pieces, it includes essays by Gary Okihiro, Nicola Ansell, Graham Harman and Trevor Paglen. via Progressive Geographies
Society and Space issue 5 (via Progressive Geographies)
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space volume 28 issue 5 has now been published online and is available here. Among other pieces, it includes essays by Gary Okihiro, Nicola Ansell, Graham Harman and Trevor Paglen. via Progressive Geographies
New Translation of Laruelle’s ‘Biography of the Eye’ (via Fractal Ontology)
Biography of the Eye by François Laruelle Originally published as “Biographie de l’oeil,” La Decision philosophique 9 (1989): 93-104. for Adolfo Fernandez Zoila “Man is this night, this empty nothingness that contains everything in its undivided simplicity…he is this
New Translation of Laruelle’s ‘Biography of the Eye’ (via Fractal Ontology)
Biography of the Eye by François Laruelle Originally published as “Biographie de l’oeil,” La Decision philosophique 9 (1989): 93-104. for Adolfo Fernandez Zoila “Man is this night, this empty nothingness that contains everything in its undivided simplicity…he is this
PhD Scholarship Opportunity – Deleuze and the Theatre of Samuel Beckett
Principal Supervisor: Laura Cull As Beckett scholar, Mary Bryden has noted, Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical engagement with Samuel Beckett’s work is particularly focused on his early novels and latterly with his television projects, rather than on the stage plays for which
PhD Scholarship Opportunity – Deleuze and the Theatre of Samuel Beckett
Principal Supervisor: Laura Cull As Beckett scholar, Mary Bryden has noted, Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical engagement with Samuel Beckett’s work is particularly focused on his early novels and latterly with his television projects, rather than on the stage plays for which
Jacques Rancière – The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing (via V£R$O)
This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which
Jacques Rancière – The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing (via V£R$O)
This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which
Philosophy and Poetry PDF E-Books
Philosophy E-books Novalis The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg’s Journal of 1797, With Selected Letters and Documents Fichte Studies Philosophical Writings Herder Selected Writings on Aesthetics Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings Philosophical Writings Heidegger Contributions to
Philosophy and Poetry PDF E-Books
Philosophy E-books Novalis The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg’s Journal of 1797, With Selected Letters and Documents Fichte Studies Philosophical Writings Herder Selected Writings on Aesthetics Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings Philosophical Writings Heidegger Contributions to
The Projection-Introjection Mechanism in Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans
The consequences of projection of fantasies onto the Real can be clearly observed in Kerouac’s The Subterraneans, which was quite a subversive book in its time, carrying Kerouac quite high up the cultural ladder, and in Burroughsian terms “causing thousands
The Projection-Introjection Mechanism in Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans
The consequences of projection of fantasies onto the Real can be clearly observed in Kerouac’s The Subterraneans, which was quite a subversive book in its time, carrying Kerouac quite high up the cultural ladder, and in Burroughsian terms “causing thousands
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
Filozofun Bir Ölümsüz Olarak Portresi
Zamanın uçurumundan ve ötesindeki karanlıktan başka ne görüyorsunuz? – William Shakespeare Kanlı bir yumurta sarısı. Bir çarşafa yayılan yanmış bir delik. Herkesi açmakla tehdit eden öfkeli bir gül. – May Svvenson Dipsiz bir uçurumun içine baktığınız zaman, o da sizin
Filozofun Bir Ölümsüz Olarak Portresi
Zamanın uçurumundan ve ötesindeki karanlıktan başka ne görüyorsunuz? – William Shakespeare Kanlı bir yumurta sarısı. Bir çarşafa yayılan yanmış bir delik. Herkesi açmakla tehdit eden öfkeli bir gül. – May Svvenson Dipsiz bir uçurumun içine baktığınız zaman, o da sizin
The Subject Turning Against Itself
Cengiz Erdem With Dead Ringers (1988) Cronenberg shows the consequences of an attempt to get rid of the space between the me and the not me. The illusory absence of difference between Mantle twins Beverly and Elliot is their own
The Subject Turning Against Itself
Cengiz Erdem With Dead Ringers (1988) Cronenberg shows the consequences of an attempt to get rid of the space between the me and the not me. The illusory absence of difference between Mantle twins Beverly and Elliot is their own
Cengiz Erdem
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