The Collapse of Modern Hope
“[H]istoricist thinking and militant practice refuse to consider depression as a cognitive element, and this is a limit, one that today, for example, prevents us from being lucid about understanding […]
Author Archives: dmf
Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986, #2
“Photography is alright, if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops – for a split second.” – David Hockney In 1986, […]
Anne Dufourmantelle | On Risking Life
Anne Dufourmantelle was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst whose work focused on risk taking. Anne believed risk was essential to meaningful human life and argued that ”absolute security – like ‘zero […]
Siri Hustvedt | The Idea of the Between
Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist, poet, and essayist – with six novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fictiont hat has been translated into over thirty languages.. Her […]
Donna Haraway Reads the National Geographics of Primates
Donna Haraway is a Distinguished American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of […]
Adapted to a Symbolic Niche?
Terrence William Deacon (born 1950) is an American Neuroanthropologist (Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, Harvard University 1984). He taught at Harvard for eight years, relocated to Boston University in 1992, and […]
Do Not Normalize What Should Not Be Normalized
Originally posted on environmental critique:
By Jeff VanderMeer ? This Earth Day it may be of use to think about how elements of weird fiction relate to the political sphere.…
Andrew Pickering – Engaging Emergence: From Cellular Automata to the Occupy Movement
It’s come to my attention that this may have gotten buried in the powers of the horde here and that would be unfortunate as I think it is central to […]
Merleau-Ponty & Wittgenstein on Understanding “Other Others”
Katherine Morris (Professor at Mansfield College, Oxford) speaking at Mind & Society 2.0.
Vibrant Matter, Zero Landscape: Bennett vs. Zizek
“Can ecology (as a complex system of words, sounds, deeds, affects, narratives, propensities) really ever fully merge into the allegedly totalizing system of capitalism? Here I follow Deleuze and Guattari’s […]
Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism
Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism (PDF) by Claire Colebrook Necessary reading for our purposes here: “Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism: this awful portmanteau word, in all its ungainly confusion, captures something crucial about the present. In the essay […]
house the sheriff was building is in the heart of a fallout zone
Drawing Restraint 9
Year 1 under an authoritarian regime. #LearnFromEurope
The Twentieth Day Of January
prepare your perpetual Pentecost of golf course and freeway, shopping mall and car so the fires that are burning in the orange groves turn light into sweetness and the huddled graves are hives of the future
The Lord wants me to go to Florida. I shall cross the border with the mercury thieves, as foretold in the faxes and prophecies, and the checkpoint angel of Estonia […]
Reactionary Atheism: Hagglund, Derrida, and Nooconservatism*
Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
The difference between the critic and the apologist in philosophy, one would think, is the difference between conceiving philosophy as refuge, a post hoc…
Wendy Chun : Habit & Exosomatization
Dangerous Days -On The Edge Of Blade Runner
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