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Tag Archives: theory
Justin Erik Halldór Smith on the Badiou Studies Hoax
I would normally excerpt something here so that you could get a sense of what’s happening in the piece, but Smith’s short essay is really well put together and I had a hard time choosing a paragraph that made sense … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged alain badiou, badiou studies, communism, Justin Erik Halldór Smith, theory
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Far Cry Primal Essay at Paste
When we write about the past we’re always writing about the present. That writing can take a personal tone, showing how a person got to the place that they are through the person that they’ve been. Ben Carson stabs a … Continue reading
On Jessa Crispin’s “The Dead Ladies Project”
The Dead Ladies Project is a collection of essays centered around Jessa Crispin’s travels in the shadows of the writers she’s fascinated with. The subtitle, “Exiles, Expats, & Ex-Countries,” almost doesn’t manage to touch what’s actually going on in the volume, … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged jessa crispin, literary essay, the dead ladies project, theory
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Constance Penley on Fan Fiction and NASA
I got back into space and its fictions in the mid-1980s by hanging out with some very interesting women from around the country who write homoerotic, pornographic, utopian romances that take place in the Star Trek universe. Fellow academics have suggested that … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged constance penley, culture, fan fiction, nasa/trek, theory
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Animals, Drones, and the Police
We love when animals destroy drones. The compilation videos and their buzzf’diggification on Facebook has drawn together a very clear contemporary fascination with watching animals of all kinds destroy the most annoying objects of modern life. Animals fighting with flying … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged animal studies, drones, liberalism, nonhumans, theory
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Andrew Pilsch on Pour-Over Coffee
To choose pour-over coffee instead of Keurig, then, isn’t entirely a choice of human craft over machine labor. It’s more an issue of priorities—craft depends on processes that are beholden to people, creating an intimate relationship in which the human … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged coffee, object lessons, theory
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On Chloe Howl – “Rumour”
1. “Rumour” is predicated on Chlöe Howl’s gaze returning back to us. I don’t mean this in a familiar register — this isn’t warmed over Laura Mulvey with a reflective moment stapled on. There might be fertile fields here to understand … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Riff Raff Studies, Music, Theory, Video
Tagged chloe howl, criticism, rumour, theory
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On Bruns’ On Ceasing To Be Human
I recently finished Gerald Bruns’ On Ceasing To Be Human, and I just wanted to jot down a few notes about it. I’m going to put those notes here because why not?! 1. Ceasing is a wonderful summation of a particular strain of … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged gerald bruns, nonhumans, on ceasing to be human, theory, video games
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Taussig on Calling from Two Sides
Months later at night, drinking the strong medicine which makes your head swim, singing the while in ebbs and flows of pictures, the topic of these kids came up. I strongly doubt that the healer and I would have talked … Continue reading
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Tagged death, georges bataille, michael taussig, satanas, theory
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Wark on Manovich
The genius of Alan Kay was to realize that the barriers to entry of the computer into culture were not just computational but also cultural. Computers had to do things that people wanted to do, and in ways that they … Continue reading
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Tagged lev manovich, mckenzie wark, new media, theory
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