Monthly Archives: April 2015
Andreas Lubitz & the unhuman evil of murder-suicide
On the 28th of March I opened a new blog for a project slightly darker in hue than synteticzero but which remains within its orbit. The first post of any […]
Choreography &the Everyday -Jonathan Cole & Co.
“Discussing the extraordinary complexity of our everyday actions, and inviting comparison with the power of visual artists to interrupt our habitual behaviour, the speakers explored how ‘Manual’ draws attention to […]
brutal logic of contemporary capitalism -saskia sassen
plus her paper Public Interventions: http://www.skor.nl/_files/Files/OPEN!%20Key%20Texts_Sassen.pdf
Agamben State Power & Bare Life -Adam Kotsko
http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/files/atg/atg_2014.09.02_kotsko_on_agamben_0.mp3 “How foundational are violence and coercion to Western sovereign authority? According to Giorgio Agamben, states of emergency have become not the exception but the rule, and the individual has […]
Age of (In)Security -Homi Bhabha & Saskia Sassen
“Living Side by Side: On Culture and Security: Does the concept of security assume a distinctive cultural form in the midst of deafening patriotic calls for protection and precaution? This […]
The Poverty of Acceleration
Originally posted on Unlimited Dream Company ('Despairing at last, I decided to die' -J.G. Ballard):
We are supposed to be inside a speeding train, the train being capitalism accelerating as ever.…
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Fragments of Mere Meat
A kind of experiment- aphorisms, stories, snapshots, quotations; gatherings; fallings apart; written over various nights of insomnia, exhaustion, and the circadian/cognitive chaos of night shifts. Download it as a pdf. Print it […]