Monthly Archives: May 2016
Phormix Podcast @PDaijing
Richard Sennett on Interiors and Interiority
Nervous Systems / Measuring Up by Laboria Cuboniks
“As we swirl about in the vertiginous technosphere, the translation of our world into a data-material complex, brings with it the promise (and threat) of the total measurability of life […]
Philip K. Dick -A Day In The Afterlife
Bruegel’s The Triumph of Death
Self-immolation as sacrificial protest
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2016/05/rvn_20160529.mp3 “Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning flesh […]
Zahavi, Dennett, and the End of Being*
Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
? We are led back to these perceptions in all questions regarding origins, but they themselves exclude any further question as to origin. It…
Žižek: Rage, Rebellion, Organizing New Power: A Hegelian Triad
I don’t share Slavoj’s optimism that we can make things substantially better but he seemed quite clear and reasonable to me in this talk, I can see making a pragmatist’s […]
Andrew Culp: Dark Deleuze – A Short Summary
Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The way I think through another’s work is to write, to question, to take notes, read parallel works that…
Incurable Hope in a Time of Extinction
“Ashley Dawson, Eben Kirksey, Julie Livingstone, Anne McClintock, Rob Nixon, and Jovana Stokic will probe imaginative horizons to illuminate concrete sites of biocultural hope.” see also: http://climateandcapitalism.com/2016/05/25/planetary-crisis-we-are-not-all-in-this-together/
these troubled times get scary. But that’s just ordinary
Chaos, uncertainty & anger: labor protests disrupt life in France
more info and video footage @ https://www.rt.com/news/344635-france-chaos-protests-reform/
Standing with Slavoj Žižek & Against an Illness on the Left -Douglas Lain
http://media.blubrry.com/dietsoap/p/content.blubrry.com/dietsoap/standingwithz.mp3 more info @ http://douglaslain.net/zero-squared-special-a-reading-in-defense-of-zizek/ for brer noir’s take: https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/thinking-too-much-and-not-enough/
dangers of democracy / democracy in danger
http://ia601504.us.archive.org/34/items/160526OSPODCASTDemocracy/160526-OS-PODCAST-Democracy.mp3 http://radioopensource.org/democracy-disorder/
the abstractions @ large -syntalk
Migration Crisis Or New Normal? w/ Thomas Nail & Alison Mountz
see also http://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2016/may/27/that-thing-gnawing-away-at-all-of-us-calais-and-the-shantytown-on-its-doorstep http://novaramedia.com/2016/05/class-race-migration/
Choice is not liberation: On the buying & selling of feminism
“Writer and Bitch Media co-founder Andi Zeisler explores 50 years of tension between feminism and capitalism in popular culture, and explains how mass media has adapted and amplified the language […]
Lag Ba’Omer (Conflagration)
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/world-on-fire-1.3576953 jewish philosophy place Fire is a critical ritual marker in Judaism. On the combustible nature of religion, you can read here about Lag Ba’Omer forest fires in Jerusalem. There are […]
Ideological Necrophilia? failing state watch Venezuela
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2016/05/lnl_20160526_2205.mp3 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/venezuela-on-the-brink/7436372
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