Monthly Archives: August 2015
The Universal and the Particular: Chomsky, Foucault, and Post-New Left Political Discourse (2014)
Originally posted on Foucault News:
Derek Ide The Universal and the Particular: Chomsky, Foucault, and Post-New Left Political Discourse, The Hampton Institute, December 20th, 2014 Postmodern theory was a relatively…
fragment of mei-mei berssenbrugge
Telling was engendered in my body and fell upon me, like a battle skimming across combatants, a bird hovering. Beautiful friends stopped dressing; there was a war. I’d weep, then […]
No Exit in the Mediated Age
http://radioopensource.org/dfw-and-the-internet/# “His masterpiece novel, Infinite Jest, what we took to be manic imagination now looks like prophesy: it was hung up on lethally good amusement long before screen addiction became a national anxiety and people dropped dead at their keyboards in Asian arcades. […]
political economy in the open asylum
Continuing to view contemporary society as an open asylum this post looks at the function of money after it’s derefentializing.
fragments of nicanor parra
I give no one the right. I worship a piece of rag. I transport coffins. I transport coffins. I give no one the right. I look ridiculous In the sunlight, […]
Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas9
for those with a more scientific bent
golem after stanislaw lem
and from brer noir: http://darkecologies.com/2015/08/12/stanislaw-lems-proof-of-an-independent-reality/
what schizophrenia sounds like (?)
The Test of Fantasy by Joanne Kyger
1. It unfolds and ripples like a banner, downward. All the stories come folding out. The smells and flowers begin to come back, as the tapestry is brightly colored and […]
What Concepts and Emotions Are (and Aren’t)
My sense of these matters is that concepts and emotion aren’t things we have (or that have us) but terms referring to things we do, for Adam’s (Whiteheadian) take read […]