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Category Archives: Theory
Rosi Braidotti on the future
TVWhat makes the project of the nomadic programmatic, or utopian? Rosi Braidotti: Let’s call it programmatic; maybe that’s a better term than utopian here. I call to actively embrace this ethic of affirmation. We need to borrow the energy from … Continue reading
“amending the ways of nature”
In expert epistemology, nature was messy. Technology was the great orderer. “The real calamity in a thunderstorm,” explained William Crookes, commenting on natural unharnessed electricity, “is not that the lightning may kill a man or a cow, or set barns … Continue reading
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Tagged carolyn marvin, new media, technology, theory, when old technologies were new
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A Moment in Kitsch Nihilism
Pop nihilism is a real, active cultural force. We can see it so clearly in Eugene Thacker’s rise to prominence around In The Dust of this Planet. We can see it in the GIF walls of Rust Cohle’s brutal Ligotti-inflected … Continue reading
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Tagged eugene thacker, in the dust of this planet, nihilism, paul ennis, thomas ligotti, true detective
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On Lyotard and Thebaud’s “Just Gaming”
[I originally wrote this post in February 2014 and never published it for some reason. A lot of it, especially at the beginning, is written for a specific time and moment. Forgive me.] As you may know, I am writing … Continue reading
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Tagged jean-francois lyotard, jean-loup thebaud, just gaming, philosophy, theory
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A Real Happy Birthday to Georges Bataille
“There are masses of lilacs here, irises and wisteria. The forest seems like peace itself, but when the day comes it will burn like a match.” – Georges Bataille, [x] The Paris Review published a happy birthday essay to Bataille today. … Continue reading
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Tagged colette peignot, georges bataille, laure
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Khalil Islam on paramilitary procedures
Manning Marable: All right. Talk about that. What does that mean to be military? Khalil Islam: Paramilitary procedures, that’s what we were using at that time, which was a very poor structure. Paramilitary procedure gives the D.A. the opportunity to … Continue reading
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Tagged interview, khalil islam, malcolm x
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On #Misanthropocene
Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr have published a long, strange poem called #Misanthropocene. It’s a baroque attempt to sketch out the edges, limits, interior of the contemporary condition in of the “west.” It feels a lot like a precursor to something … Continue reading
Paul Virilio on the origins of interactivity
INTERACTIVITY was actually born in the nineteenth century — with the telegraph, certainly, but also and especially with clinical electricity, which involved planting electrodes on the faces of the human guinea pigs used in such ‘medical art’ as practised by … Continue reading
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Tagged art and fear, duchenne de boulogne, interactivity, paul virilio, video games
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Ego and Haircut
I get my hair cut about once a semester and my hair grows fast so I go through this process twice a year: my hair grows so long that it becomes inconvenient, I travel to a place where they cut … Continue reading
Fanon on the evolution of forms of exploitation
For a time it looked at though racism had disappeared. This soul-soothing, unreal impression was simply the consequence of the evolution of forms of exploitation. Psychologists spoke of a prejudice having become unconscious. The truth is that the rigor of … Continue reading
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Tagged frantz fanon, quotation, toward the african revolution
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this cage is worms 