Category Archives: Theory

Thinking with Fungus

Posted on 12/17/2013 by kunzelman

To swing back to literal fungus, the intertwining of life and death has long been a mark of fungoid existence, with the death and darkness of forests being populated by fungus which thrives in the hollow remnants of more majestic … Continue reading →

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Lyotard on the landscape

Posted on 12/12/2013 by kunzelman

Whether or not you ‘like’ a landscape is unimportant. It does not ask you for your opinion. If it is there, your opinion counts as nothing. A landscape leaves the mind DESOLATE. It makes lymph (the soul) flow, not blood. … Continue reading →

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James Stanescu on the Posthumous Critiques of Mandela

Posted on 12/10/2013 by kunzelman

And I worry about the kneejerk reactions of radicals to take the death of someone like Nelson Mandela and go, “Yeah, well, he didn’t topple capitalism while he was at it, so I don’t know what the big deal is.” … Continue reading →

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Claire Colebrook on the Anthropocene

Posted on 12/09/2013 by kunzelman

That notion that one could completely achieve this moment of a completely flat ontology where I speak as if from nowhere seems to be promised by the anthropocene but is also crossed out by it. So it is always going … Continue reading →

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Lyotard on the Avant-Garde

Posted on 12/04/2013 by kunzelman

Yet there is a kind of collusion between capital and the avant-garde. The force of scepticism and even of destruction that capitalism has brought into play, and that Marx never ceased analyzing and identifying, in some way encourages among artists … Continue reading →

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McKenzie Wark on the Ludic Century

Posted on 11/27/2013 by kunzelman

The twenty-first century – the ludic century – is animated in part by just that fantasy: that the feedback loop can be closed, and action can be modified in realtime depending on data about its immediate effects. Of course in … Continue reading →

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Marcom in A Brief History of Yes

Posted on 11/25/2013 by kunzelman

So now it is Maria’s turn to laugh. She laughs. And the girl opens her mouth and all of the laughing animals and not-animals run out of her mouth and into the air–which butterflies and sandhill cranes which hillside songbird … Continue reading →

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Kanye via Isaac

Posted on 11/19/2013 by kunzelman

I’m writing on Kanye and the videogame aesthetic right now. Sample:

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a quibble in being

Posted on 11/18/2013 by kunzelman
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Lyotard on the human in humans

Posted on 11/07/2013 by kunzelman

What shall we call human in humans, the initial misery of their childhood, or their capacity to acquire a ‘second’ nature which, thanks to language, makes them fit to share in communal life, adult consciousness and reason? That the second … Continue reading →

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