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On Lyotard and Thebaud’s “Just Gaming”

Posted on 09/17/2014 by kunzelman

[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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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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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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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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