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Monthly Archives: June 2013

DECEPTION – A Night Of Magic And Illumination

June 30, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Why is deception such an essential part of the human condition? What evolutionary purpose does it fulfill? How can we recognize it on an individual level, and overcome it on […]

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On Crisis (emergency and new heroism), Jan Verwoert

June 29, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Emergency? Of what kind, where, affecting who? In most recent global history, a number of monumental incidents of a political nature, many of which fall under a larger concept of […]

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Verwoert

Ruth Ozeki and the Trials of Switching Off

June 28, 2013by dmf 1 Comment

Ruth Ozeki and the Trials of Switching Off Just started reading zen priest, novelist, and documentary filmmaker Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale For The Time Being and came across this related […]

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Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism – David Harvey

June 27, 2013by dmf 3 Comments

AUDIO: David Harvey ‘Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism’ In this lecture drawing on his new ‘Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism’ David Harvey will explore the way capital […]

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Harvey

Movements of Feeling and Moments of Judgment

June 26, 2013by dmf 2 Comments

Systems thinker Tom Andersen, in being “a wanderer and worrier” (as he put it), was constantly reflecting on his own practice, on his way of ‘going on’, to further develop […]

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Blasting the Canon

June 25, 2013by dmf 2 Comments

Blasting the Canon, Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies All hail Eileen Joy and her wondrous and ever evolving DIY rhizome Punctum productions this time bringing us the latest from Anarchist […]

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Joy

Brutal Simplifiers

June 25, 2013by dmf 3 Comments

Richard Sennett’s lecture “Brutal Simplifiers” at the Haus der Kulturen der Wel: BODYBITS Opening (1/5), http://www.hkw.de/en/

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Sennett

Theodore Major

June 25, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

A segment of a TV progamme on the Wigan artist, Theodore Major

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Major

Infrastructure, Infra-politics

June 24, 2013by ||| 8 Comments

Infrastructure, after all, is about how worlds are made, how forms of life are sustained and made viable. To think politics as infrastructural is to set aside questions of subjectivity, […]

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Foucault, Heidegger, Marx, Mitropoulos

gods must be crazy

June 23, 2013by dmf Leave a comment
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Anthropology, Architecture, Archaeology, Art

June 22, 2013by ||| 6 Comments

In the video below preeminent anthropologist and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen Tim Ingold tries to bring the “4 A’s” [anthropology, architecture, archaeology, and art] together, […]

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Ingold

The Decline and Fall of Work

June 21, 2013by dmf 6 Comments

Raoul Vaneigem is a Belgian writer and philosopher. He was born in Lessines. After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels from 1952 to 1956, he participated in […]

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Vaneigem

Reason, Genealogy and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity

June 21, 2013by ||| 8 Comments

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiM7IwZWW5g Robert Brandom, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, argues that genealogies (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault) present the revenge of naturalism on rationalism. Hegel teaches…

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Brandom, Rorty

Live From Deathrow: REACH Coalition

June 20, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Prof. Lisa Guenther (one of the NewAPPS crew) has been sharing some of her work (both directly with/in the community and in reflection) in an ongoing series of posts that […]

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Merleau-Ponty

The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (2001)

June 20, 2013by ||| 2 Comments

It is through action and interaction within practices that mind, rationality and knowledge are constituted and social life is organized, reproduced and transformed. During the past two decades, practice theory […]

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Bourdieu, Derrida, Heidegger, Marx, Wittgenstein

Only An Expert

June 19, 2013by dmf 3 Comments

The song “Only an Expert” was released as a 12″ vinyl single on May 18, 2010 by Laurie Anderson, an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician. Initially trained as […]

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An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene

June 18, 2013by dmf 4 Comments

In the video below Katherine Gibson (one half of the amazing JK Gibson-Graham feminist economic-geographer duo; unfortunately Julie Graham died in 2010) delivers a powerful and insightful plenary lecture entitled, […]

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K. Gibson, Latour, Rabinow

Being in the World

June 17, 2013by ||| 3 Comments

“Once upon a time there was a world full of meaning, focused by exemplary figures in the form of gods and heroes, saints and sinners. How did we lose them, […]

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Dreyfus, Heidegger, Plato, Taylor, Wittgenstein

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness?

June 17, 2013by ||| 12 Comments

Alain de Botton is a Swiss/British writer, philosopher, television presenter and entrepreneur, living in the United Kingdom. In the following video series, Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness  de Botton features […]

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Epicurus, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Seneca, Socrates

We Want Your Soul

June 15, 2013by dmf 1 Comment

– a musical interlude by Adam Freeland & Mr Mondialisation

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