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Category Archives: General Features
Rendering the Visible II: Figure CFP
The Moving Image Studies program at Georgia State University (that’s where I am!) is putting on a conference early next year. It is named Rendering the Visible II, and it is a theoretically heavy kind of thing that is radically nondisciplinary … Continue reading
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Tagged call for papers, georgia state university, moving image studies, rendering the visible
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Jodi Dean Interviewed at Figure/Ground
As always, Figure/Ground has an exciting interview up, this time with Jodi Dean. My favorite part of the interview: F/G: In 2009, Francis Fukuyama wrote a controversial article for the Washington Post entitled “What are your arguments for or against tenure track?” In … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time
Tagged capitalism, communism, education, figure/ground, jodi dean
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A Cups Podcast
HEY I have had a long day so this is short. Angela Washko and Ann Hirsch have a new podcast called A Cups where they talk about their own art and the art of guests. I listened to the first two episodes … Continue reading
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Tagged a cups, angela washko, ann hirsch, art, podcast
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Sunaura Taylor on Disability and Animals
Is there another way? What would a reframing of dependency look like to animals oppressed by humans? Viewing the dependence of farm animals through a disability studies framework gives new answers to the questions surrounding animal exploitation and may also open up a third … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, disability, ethics, life
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Boris Groys on the Materiality of Signs
After all, signs are material; they are primarily things, objects in the world. Just as real, material, and finite are such sign carriers as books, paintings, films, computers, museums, and libraries, as well as stones, animals, humans, societies, and nation-states. … Continue reading
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Tagged boris groys, materialism, semiotics, signs
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Bifo on Imagination
We continue to use old forms of action but we will have to begin to imagine new forms that are capable of actually struggling against financial dictatorship. In my opinion, the first task – which we have begun to experience over the … Continue reading
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Tagged bifo berardi, capitalism, franco berardi, quote, theory
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Riff Raff’s Favorite Ethan Hawke Movie
On his favorite Ethan Hawke movie: “Reality Bites and Tremors.” Riff Raff has been reviewing movies lately.
Posted in Critical Riff Raff Studies, General Features, Quote Time
Tagged film, review, riff raff
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I Had A Post At W.A.R.N.
I just realized that I never said anything about this on the blog: I had a post go up about Riff Raff over at We Are Respectable Negroes a couple weeks back. I talk about the recent Hot 97 interview with … Continue reading
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Tagged chauncey devega, music, rap, riff raff
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Leopold Lambert on the Explosion
What is an explosion at the pure physics level? A bomb is an apparatus that contains folded within itself the potential liberation of an important volume of energy in the form of an exothermic reaction. Such a volume of energy … Continue reading
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Tagged explosions, gilbert simondon, leopold lambert, materialsm, quote
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The Silk Pavilion
The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales. The primary structure was created of 26 polygonal panels made of silk threads laid down by a CNC (Computer-Numerically Controlled) machine. Inspired by … Continue reading
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Tagged art, labor, nonhuman life, silk pavilion
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this cage is worms 