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Tag Archives: theory
On the Inhuman Drama of Pacific Rim
SPOILERS FOR PACIFIC RIM AND OTHER DEL TORO FILMS WHOOPS A reading of Pacific Rim: Right off I want to say that I enjoyed the movie while cringing and being hugely disappointed every single time a character said the word “bitch” … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged guillermo del toro, nonhumans, pacific rim, theory, violence
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Suspicion Under Everything: Riff Raff Meets Boris Groys
A little information before we get to the proper bit of this post: Groys is doing phenomenology so everything emanates from the necessity of a subject/observer in the following. I’m still not sure where I sit with phenomenology on the … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Riff Raff Studies, Theory
Tagged boris groys, riff raff, theory, under suspicion
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Ranciere on Life
I finished Jacques Ranciere’s newest book Aisthesis the other day, and I wanted to get a few notes out about the way that Ranciere thinks about the concept of life in the book. If you’re familiar with Ranciere (and if you’re not … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged aisthesis, gilles deleuze, henri bergson, jacques ranciere, theory
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Bifo on Imagination
We continue to use old forms of action but we will have to begin to imagine new forms that are capable of actually struggling against financial dictatorship. In my opinion, the first task – which we have begun to experience over the … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged bifo berardi, capitalism, franco berardi, quote, theory
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Rancière on the Pure Nonsense of Life
The notes disappear in smoke, and the raised fist of the infant – a new kind of messiah different from Bartleby/Deleuze – celebrates, for all science, the hymn of life obstinately pursuing its own nonsense. Literary fiction has embraced the … Continue reading
Posted in Nonhuman Life, Quote Time, Theory
Tagged jacques ranciere, life, nonhuman life, quote, theory
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Jacques Rancière on Art’s World
Art exists as a separate world since anything whatsoever can belong to it. This is precisely one of the arguments of this book. It shows how a regime of perception, sensation, and interpretation of art is constituted and transformed by … Continue reading
Rancière on Life and Politics
The scientific Marxist revolution certainly wanted to put an end to the workers’ reveries, along with utopian programmes. But by opposing them to the effects of real social development, it kept subordinating the end and means of action to the … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged jacques ranciere, life, quote, ranciere, theory
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Leopold Lambert on Architecture and Occupation
Occupation is a second way that architecture is used to serve military purposes. Of course one could think of the Roman Legion’s settlement and some other temporary military structures; nevertheless, it seems more interesting here to understand the word military … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged architecture, leopold lambert, quote, theory, weaponized architecture
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Rasmussen on Architecture and History
Thus, in the Spanish Steps we can see a petrification of the dancing rhythm of a period of gallantry; it gives us an inkling of something that was, something our generation will never know. Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture 136
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Tagged architecture, quotation, theory
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Riff Raff on the Riff Raff Halloween Costume (or, What Does It Mean To Be Riff Raff?)
Riff Raff talks a bit about Spring Breakers in this interview. About midway through: [Riff Raff talks about a store he is going to open that does not sell middle of the mall shit and then] …but what we’re doing is also … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Riff Raff Studies, Theory
Tagged pure aesthetics, riff raff, theory
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