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Tag Archives: deleuze and guattari
A Thousand Plateaus as thriller
The first thought that came to my mind after finishing A Thousand Plateaus for the nth time for my comps is that you could read it as a thriller contemporary thriller novel. It has all the trappings of a Dan Brown novel: there … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged a thousand plateaus, deleuze and guattari, diagram, genre, thriller
On Video Games, Content, and Expression
Frank Lantz recently wrote a post at Gamasutra about formalism. It is fundamentally about the stakes of formalism, what self-described formalists do and do not do, and how he sees the current world of video games. The much-quoted paragraph … Continue reading
Posted in Theory, Video Games
Tagged content and expression, deleuze and guattari, form and content, frank lantz
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On rrrrrrrroll
I have had rrrrrrrroll open in a tab on my desktop for a month or more, always trying to figure out what I should write about it. Clearly I am never going to get there. Maybe that’s the point. rrrrrrrroll is about a single … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged a thousand plateaus, deleuze and guattari, gif, rrrrrrrroll, theory
On Weaponized Architecture
I’ve been anticipating Leopold Lambert‘s Weaponized Architecture since I became aware of it last fall. After wrestling with Amazon pushing my order for three months, I finally bit the proverbial book bullet and ordered it from the United Kingdom. After a short … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged architecture, deleuze and guattari, design, leopold lambert, weaponized architecture
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Parikka on Complicity With Anonymous Media
The archaeological method of Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia represents a theory-fiction alternative for media archaeology too. What if we employ the same hallucinatory, inspiring way of investigating the subterranean, the secret, the ground that is not defined by stability but dynamic flux of sediments … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged deleuze and guattari, jussi parikka, reza negarestani, theory
Nick Briz’s Apple Computers
Ben Syverson: That’s part of getting yourself in another ecosystem. It’s about adapting and the constraints and they force you to do this thing that you don’t necessarily want to do but you have to do it because if you … Continue reading
Glissant and Opacity (2): Relation
This post, like a great many (all?) of the posts on this blog, is about my trying to figure something out for myself. What follows is the rambling that I need to do in order to work my way through … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged deleuze and guattari, edouard glissant, philosophy, relation, theory
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On Rhythm and Comics
Elizabeth Grosz writes in Chaos, Territory, Art that The first artist, for Deleuze, is the architect, the one who distinguishes inside from outside, who draws a boundary, as we have discussed previously. This boundary is not self-protective but erotico-proprietorial: it defines a … Continue reading
Posted in Comics
Tagged art, comics, deleuze and guattari, elizabeth grosz, jason, theory
