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Category Archives: Quote Time
Mark Gonzales on Not Speaking
MG: I like it and I hate it. I don’t really like the marketing or the business of skateboarding…the sport by itself, I just like skateboarding, it’s fun, it’s a fun thing to do. You don’t like photosessions either? MG: … Continue reading
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Tagged mark gonzales, opacity, quote, skateboarding, theory
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Frantz Fanon on Ontology
As long as the black man remains in his home territory, except for petty internal quarrels, he will not have to experience his being for others. There is in fact a “being for other,” as described by Hegel, but any … Continue reading
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Tagged black skin, frantz fanon, ontology, race, white masks
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Parisi on Incomputable Algorithms
Incomputable algorithms are not exceptional probabilities, marking, for instance, the moment at which programming breaks down. On the contrary, incomputable probabilities are known probabilities that point toward a new conception of rule. The latter is exposed to a certain indeterminate … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged contagious architecture, luciana parisia, nonhumans, theory
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Shaviro’s Redux of The Cinematic Body
It’s rare for academics who work in the realm of critical theory, or poststructuralist theory, or other such things in the humanities, even to polemicize against cognitivism: either because they are naively unaware of its institutional power, or because they … Continue reading
Steven Shaviro on Lost Highway
That’s why the first half of Lost Highway is so brooding and mysterious. It pushes up against the limits of what can be seen and said. So much is hinted at, and so little is shown. Even the event upon which the … Continue reading
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Tagged bodies, david lynch, lost highway, steven shaviro
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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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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
Posted in Quote Time
Tagged animals, disability, ethics, life
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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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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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