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Category Archives: Quote Time
Figure/Ground Interview with Anthony Paul Smith
What effect has the information age and technology had on the university and on pedagogy? I take a kind of Deleuzian approach to the question of technology and pedagogy. Very simply, too simply probably, one of the lessons of the … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged anthony paul smith, education, figure/ground, interview, theory
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Galloway on Images
One of the key consequences of the control society is that we have moved from a condition in which singular machines produce proliferations of images, into a condition in which multitudes of machines produce singular images. As evidence for the … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged alexander galloway, images, the interface effect
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Figure/Ground Interview with Gary Genosko
As you see, I’m bad at giving advice. I can barely recommend readings. Books are toolboxes. They help to solve problems, answer questions, ask the right questions. They can be read in any way you can invent. They can be … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged figure/ground, franco berardi, gary genosko, interview, maurizio lazzarato
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Halberstam on disciplinarity
Indeed terms like serious and rigorous tend to be code words, in academia as well as other contexts, for disciplinary correctness; they signal a form of training and learning that confirms what is already known according to approved methods of knowing, but they do … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged failure, j. halberstam, michel foucault, queer, walter benjamin
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Riff Raff and Haters
In an interview with VLADTV, Riff Raff was asked about haters. It starts at about 1:53 into the video. How do you deal with haters? I don’t. That’s the whole deal. I don’t deal with them. Because no matter what … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Riff Raff Studies, Quote Time
Tagged planetaries, quote, rap, riff raff, swag studies
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de Castell and Bryson on utopia
So our argument is for disenchantment, and for the abandonment of a utopian landscape of desire that has never been anything but entrapment. Suzanne de Castell and Mary Bryson “Retooling Play: Dystopia, Dysphoria, and Difference”
Posted in Quote Time
Tagged gender, mary bryson, queer, suzanne de castell, video games
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Sara Ahmed on bodies and space
So, yes, we can remember that some space are already occupied. They even take the shape of bodies that occupy them. Bodies also take the shape of the spaces they occupy and of the work they do. And yet sometimes … Continue reading
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Tagged phenomenology, queer, sara ahmed, theory, video games
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Sara Ahmed on the making of worlds
Inhabiting a body that is not extended by the skin of the social means the world acquires a new shape and makes new impressions. Becoming a lesbian taught me about the very point of how life gets directed and how … Continue reading
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Tagged phenomenology, queer, quote, sara ahmed, theory
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David Lulka on the lawn
The condition of the lawn in winter presents a more difficult set of issues. The immanence of grass presents no ethical challenge when lawns remain stagnant in the late summer heat. During winter and spring, however, immanence rears its head … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, david lulka, ethics, nonhumans, violence
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