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Reading The UK Riots: Slavoj Zizek and Living in the End Times (via Reading The Riots)
Let us assume that most of the rioters are indeed stupid and mindless and all that, still these riots do have a political significance. These youths are symptoms of capitalism; they are an inevitable consequence of the internal dynamics of capitalism itself. The riots show
Reading The UK Riots: Slavoj Zizek and Living in the End Times (via Reading The Riots)
Let us assume that most of the rioters are indeed stupid and mindless and all that, still these riots do have a political significance. These youths are symptoms of capitalism; they are an inevitable consequence of the internal dynamics of capitalism itself. The riots show
Deterritorialization (via Larval Subjects.)
For many years I’ve been fascinated with Deleuze and Guattari‘s triad of deterritorialization, reterritorialization, and territory. Truth be told, when I first encountered these concepts I was repulsed. I found the language to be trendy and understood “deterritorialization” to refer
Deterritorialization (via Larval Subjects.)
For many years I’ve been fascinated with Deleuze and Guattari‘s triad of deterritorialization, reterritorialization, and territory. Truth be told, when I first encountered these concepts I was repulsed. I found the language to be trendy and understood “deterritorialization” to refer
Nature, Culture, and Lacan
To have dismantled love in order to become capable of a greater loving. To have dismantled one’s self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on
Nature, Culture, and Lacan
To have dismantled love in order to become capable of a greater loving. To have dismantled one’s self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on
Squaring Nietzsche and Marx: language and capital as social ossification (via Aaron Asphar: poetry, critical theory + philosophy)
Marx’s analysis of production ranks amongst the most thorough and forensic in Western thought, yet for him ‘language’ was a relatively marginal concern. It was theoretically addressed, but not subjected to the kind of interrogation he applied to categories such
Squaring Nietzsche and Marx: language and capital as social ossification (via Aaron Asphar: poetry, critical theory + philosophy)
Marx’s analysis of production ranks amongst the most thorough and forensic in Western thought, yet for him ‘language’ was a relatively marginal concern. It was theoretically addressed, but not subjected to the kind of interrogation he applied to categories such
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,”
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)
Hallward weighs in heavily, Harman responds immediately (via Object-Oriented Philosophy)
Peter Hallward in The Guardian, via Cengiz Erdem’s blog: “Whatever happens next, the people of north Africa and the Middle East have already won victories that will never be erased. The clashes in Tunis on 11-12 January, the capitulation
Hallward weighs in heavily, Harman responds immediately (via Object-Oriented Philosophy)
Peter Hallward in The Guardian, via Cengiz Erdem’s blog: “Whatever happens next, the people of north Africa and the Middle East have already won victories that will never be erased. The clashes in Tunis on 11-12 January, the capitulation
Peter Hallward – Arab uprisings mark a turning point for the taking
It’s not only in the Middle East that the balance of power is moving. The old neoliberal order has also been shaken… In the late 1940s, Simone de Beauvoir was already bemoaning our tendency to “think that we are not
Peter Hallward – Arab uprisings mark a turning point for the taking
It’s not only in the Middle East that the balance of power is moving. The old neoliberal order has also been shaken… In the late 1940s, Simone de Beauvoir was already bemoaning our tendency to “think that we are not
The Nietzschean Subject
Nietzsche creates the concept of bad conscience as the generator of illness, which is in turn fed by the illness it generates, giving birth to the man of ressentiment.[1] Nietzsche’s ressentiment is what Melanie Klein calls envy. To be able
The Nietzschean Subject
Nietzsche creates the concept of bad conscience as the generator of illness, which is in turn fed by the illness it generates, giving birth to the man of ressentiment.[1] Nietzsche’s ressentiment is what Melanie Klein calls envy. To be able
Slavoj Zizek – For Egypt, this is the miracle of Tahrir Square
One cannot but note the “miraculous” nature of the events in Egypt: something has happened that few predicted, violating the experts’ opinions, as if the uprising was not simply the result of social causes but the intervention of a mysterious
Slavoj Zizek – For Egypt, this is the miracle of Tahrir Square
One cannot but note the “miraculous” nature of the events in Egypt: something has happened that few predicted, violating the experts’ opinions, as if the uprising was not simply the result of social causes but the intervention of a mysterious
Excision Ethos: Flat Ontology and the Posthuman Object/Subject (via Dark Chemistry)
“Transhumanism for me is like a relationship with an obsessive and very neurotic lover. Knowing it is deeply flawed, I have tried several times to break off my engagement, but each time, it manages to creep in through the back
Excision Ethos: Flat Ontology and the Posthuman Object/Subject (via Dark Chemistry)
“Transhumanism for me is like a relationship with an obsessive and very neurotic lover. Knowing it is deeply flawed, I have tried several times to break off my engagement, but each time, it manages to creep in through the back
the accursed share: Zizek and Materialism
“Adrian Johnston’s newest book, Zizek’s Ontology, is an impressive attempt at systematizing Zizek’s notoriously hyperactive writing style. Focused on developing a “transcendental materialist theory of subjectivity” – i.e. an ontology capable of accounting for how subjectivity can emerge from an
the accursed share: Zizek and Materialism
“Adrian Johnston’s newest book, Zizek’s Ontology, is an impressive attempt at systematizing Zizek’s notoriously hyperactive writing style. Focused on developing a “transcendental materialist theory of subjectivity” – i.e. an ontology capable of accounting for how subjectivity can emerge from an
Slavoj Zizek – Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?
The western liberal reaction to the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia frequently shows hypocrisy and cynicism… An Egyptian demonstrator uses his shoe to hit a picture of President Hosni Mubarak during a protest in Cairo. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images What
Slavoj Zizek – Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?
The western liberal reaction to the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia frequently shows hypocrisy and cynicism… An Egyptian demonstrator uses his shoe to hit a picture of President Hosni Mubarak during a protest in Cairo. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images What
The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Death Drives
The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Drive In our daily lives we create little worlds of our own and invest them with various meanings. These worlds have their own logics, orders repetitively staged every day; this gives us a sense
The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Death Drives
The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Drive In our daily lives we create little worlds of our own and invest them with various meanings. These worlds have their own logics, orders repetitively staged every day; this gives us a sense
Dark Chemistry on The Life Death Drives
Here is S.C. Hickman aka Dark Chemistry’s rather generous and no less rigorous reading of my doctoral dissertation The Life Death Drives… “Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there
Dark Chemistry on The Life Death Drives
Here is S.C. Hickman aka Dark Chemistry’s rather generous and no less rigorous reading of my doctoral dissertation The Life Death Drives… “Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there
Zachary Luke Fraser’s draft translation of the first chapter of Alain Badiou’s Of Ideology
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Zachary Luke Fraser’s draft translation of the first chapter of Alain Badiou’s Of Ideology
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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
Some Remarks About Fantasy (via Larval Subjects .)
“With respect to this Other, depending on this Other, the subject is inscribed as a quotient, he is marked by the unary trait of the signifier in the field of the Other. Well, it is not for all that, as
Some Remarks About Fantasy (via Larval Subjects .)
“With respect to this Other, depending on this Other, the subject is inscribed as a quotient, he is marked by the unary trait of the signifier in the field of the Other. Well, it is not for all that, as
The Significance of Gerald Edelman’s Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience proposes that the quality of an external object is always already projected onto that object by the neuronal activity of the brain. What cognitive neuroscience lacks is a historical context, likewise what cultural studies lacks is an organic basis. An interaction
The Significance of Gerald Edelman’s Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience proposes that the quality of an external object is always already projected onto that object by the neuronal activity of the brain. What cognitive neuroscience lacks is a historical context, likewise what cultural studies lacks is an organic basis. An interaction
The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism
The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman (editors) Download Pdf eBook Description Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze,
The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism
The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman (editors) Download Pdf eBook Description Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze,
Agency, Nature and Emergent Properties: An Interview with Jane Bennett (via Para_Doxa)
An Interview with Jane Bennett by Gulshan Khan Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. In 1986 she received her doctorate in Political Science from
Agency, Nature and Emergent Properties: An Interview with Jane Bennett (via Para_Doxa)
An Interview with Jane Bennett by Gulshan Khan Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. In 1986 she received her doctorate in Political Science from
Objet a and the Veil (via Larval Subjects .)
Eumerdification Over at Pagan Metaphysics, Paul has posted a couple of great quotes from Dennett’s Breaking the Spell. Hopefully he won’t mind if I reproduce his post here. Paul writes: I was reading through Dennett’s Breaking the Spell again yesterday
Objet a and the Veil (via Larval Subjects .)
Eumerdification Over at Pagan Metaphysics, Paul has posted a couple of great quotes from Dennett’s Breaking the Spell. Hopefully he won’t mind if I reproduce his post here. Paul writes: I was reading through Dennett’s Breaking the Spell again yesterday
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
One Dimensional Woman by Nina Power (via The Blog of Disquiet)
My review of Nina Power’s One Dimensional Woman appeared in last weekend’s The Sunday Star. It’s an important, intelligently-argued book, and I highly recommend that the world reads it. Yes, the world. I’ve reproduced it in full here: For all
One Dimensional Woman by Nina Power (via The Blog of Disquiet)
My review of Nina Power’s One Dimensional Woman appeared in last weekend’s The Sunday Star. It’s an important, intelligently-argued book, and I highly recommend that the world reads it. Yes, the world. I’ve reproduced it in full here: For all
Collapse Vol. III: Unknown Deleuze [+ Speculative Realism] Now available to download for free (via Speculative Heresy)
Word from Urbanomic that Volume III of Collapse has sold out and is now available for free online. It includes the much-cited original Speculative Realism conference. Find it here. via Speculative Heresy Collapse III contains explorations of the work of
Collapse Vol. III: Unknown Deleuze [+ Speculative Realism] Now available to download for free (via Speculative Heresy)
Word from Urbanomic that Volume III of Collapse has sold out and is now available for free online. It includes the much-cited original Speculative Realism conference. Find it here. via Speculative Heresy Collapse III contains explorations of the work of
Notes Towards an Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis – 2
It was Melanie Klein who emphasized the importance of fantasies and playing in the process of development. In her Psychoanalysis of Children Klein brought to light that as humans we perpetually oscillate between paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position throughout
Notes Towards an Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis – 2
It was Melanie Klein who emphasized the importance of fantasies and playing in the process of development. In her Psychoanalysis of Children Klein brought to light that as humans we perpetually oscillate between paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position throughout
Conference: “Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy in the Contemporary Political Context”
IIan Buchanan 16 October at 09:11 Reply • Report “Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy in the Contemporary Political Context”, which will take place 2-3rd December 2010 in the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. Remembering the prophecy of Michel Foucault that one
Conference: “Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy in the Contemporary Political Context”
IIan Buchanan 16 October at 09:11 Reply • Report “Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy in the Contemporary Political Context”, which will take place 2-3rd December 2010 in the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. Remembering the prophecy of Michel Foucault that one
Alain Badiou on Plato (via All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski)
Alain Badiou, on his recent translation of Plato’s Republic October 12th, 7:00pm Room 102, 19 University Place, NY NY 100 03 New French Philosophy: http://cultureandcommunication.org/newfrenchphilosophy/ An event in the series “New French Philosophy” sponsored by the NYU Humanities Initiative and
Alain Badiou on Plato (via All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski)
Alain Badiou, on his recent translation of Plato’s Republic October 12th, 7:00pm Room 102, 19 University Place, NY NY 100 03 New French Philosophy: http://cultureandcommunication.org/newfrenchphilosophy/ An event in the series “New French Philosophy” sponsored by the NYU Humanities Initiative and
Mark Fisher: The Interview
INTRODUCTION by Alex Andrews Mark Fisher’s book ‘Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?’ is a persuasive diagnosis of contemporary society, an analysis of its political impasses and a call for fresh organization and thought. Capitalist Realism for Fisher describes the
Mark Fisher: The Interview
INTRODUCTION by Alex Andrews Mark Fisher’s book ‘Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?’ is a persuasive diagnosis of contemporary society, an analysis of its political impasses and a call for fresh organization and thought. Capitalist Realism for Fisher describes the
Contingency, Necessity and the Final Absolute: (via Total Assault On Culture)
Expanding on my summary of Ray Brassier‘s Remarks on Subtractive Ontology and Thinking Capital here are some further related observations on aleatory rationalism, drawing on Elie Ayache’s account of how the option ‘science’ of the derivatives trading comes to hypostasize
Contingency, Necessity and the Final Absolute: (via Total Assault On Culture)
Expanding on my summary of Ray Brassier‘s Remarks on Subtractive Ontology and Thinking Capital here are some further related observations on aleatory rationalism, drawing on Elie Ayache’s account of how the option ‘science’ of the derivatives trading comes to hypostasize
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
Accelerationism: Questions After Session 1, Mark Fisher and Ray Brassier (via moskvax)
Transcribed from the Backdoor Broadcasting Company recording. Alberto Toscano: I’m wondering if either of you actually think Land has a theory of capitalism. It seems to me simply an aesthetics, a very common extrapolation from a certain lyrical vision of
Accelerationism: Questions After Session 1, Mark Fisher and Ray Brassier (via moskvax)
Transcribed from the Backdoor Broadcasting Company recording. Alberto Toscano: I’m wondering if either of you actually think Land has a theory of capitalism. It seems to me simply an aesthetics, a very common extrapolation from a certain lyrical vision of
Science and Metaphysics Blog Event Kicks Off (via Deontologistics + Speculative Heresy)
The Science and Metaphysics Event has just kicked off over at Speculative Heresy, with Ben Woodard giving us a post on Lovecraftian Science/Lovecraftian Nature. I’ve just finished my piece, which will go up at some point over the next week
Science and Metaphysics Blog Event Kicks Off (via Deontologistics + Speculative Heresy)
The Science and Metaphysics Event has just kicked off over at Speculative Heresy, with Ben Woodard giving us a post on Lovecraftian Science/Lovecraftian Nature. I’ve just finished my piece, which will go up at some point over the next week
Control and Becoming: Negri interview with Deleuze (via Negri in English)
Negri: The problem of politics seems to have always been present in your intellectual life. Your involvement in various movements (prisoners, homosexuals, Italian autonomists, Palestinians), on the one hand, and the constant problematizing of institutions, on the other, follow on
Control and Becoming: Negri interview with Deleuze (via Negri in English)
Negri: The problem of politics seems to have always been present in your intellectual life. Your involvement in various movements (prisoners, homosexuals, Italian autonomists, Palestinians), on the one hand, and the constant problematizing of institutions, on the other, follow on
Alain Badiou – The Communist Hypothesis
Now, more than ever, one should insist on what Badiou calls the ‘eternal’ Idea of Communism. – Slavoj Zizek A new program for the Left after the death of neoliberalism. ‘We know that communism is the right
Alain Badiou – The Communist Hypothesis
Now, more than ever, one should insist on what Badiou calls the ‘eternal’ Idea of Communism. – Slavoj Zizek A new program for the Left after the death of neoliberalism. ‘We know that communism is the right
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
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
Marxism Expatriated – Alberto Toscano on Alain Badiou
Today’s radical political (or metapolitical) theory is the offspring of a contorted dialectic of defeat and reinvention.1 Though it is common to take contemporary ideas on emancipation and political subjectivity at face value, many of the defining characteristics of these
Marxism Expatriated – Alberto Toscano on Alain Badiou
Today’s radical political (or metapolitical) theory is the offspring of a contorted dialectic of defeat and reinvention.1 Though it is common to take contemporary ideas on emancipation and political subjectivity at face value, many of the defining characteristics of these
Method and Consequences of The Life Death Drives
If one reads the writings on film and literature in this thesis with the conscious naivety of their plot based critique in mind, one can sense the underlying current of humour and the erratic undertone of irony, both of which knock down the serious tone of the critique based on a linear reproduction of a circular plot – as we see in the investigation of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive for instance.
Method and Consequences of The Life Death Drives
If one reads the writings on film and literature in this thesis with the conscious naivety of their plot based critique in mind, one can sense the underlying current of humour and the erratic undertone of irony, both of which knock down the serious tone of the critique based on a linear reproduction of a circular plot – as we see in the investigation of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive for instance.
Kudurmuş Yeni Dünyada Yaşam ve Ölüm
1. Freud ve Einstein 1931 yılında Uluslararası Entelektüel İş Birliği Enstitüsü birtakım entelektüelleri dünyayı bekleyen sorunların çözümünü düşünmek ve tartışmak amacıyla bir araya gelmeye davet etti. Birinci Dünya Savaşı sonlanmış ama ikincisi kapıya dayanmak üzereydi. Orta Avrupa’daki gelişmeler yaklaşmakta olan
Kudurmuş Yeni Dünyada Yaşam ve Ölüm
1. Freud ve Einstein 1931 yılında Uluslararası Entelektüel İş Birliği Enstitüsü birtakım entelektüelleri dünyayı bekleyen sorunların çözümünü düşünmek ve tartışmak amacıyla bir araya gelmeye davet etti. Birinci Dünya Savaşı sonlanmış ama ikincisi kapıya dayanmak üzereydi. Orta Avrupa’daki gelişmeler yaklaşmakta olan
Cengiz Erdem
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