via fuZZyface (Linda Stewart) Judicial adjudication within our current knowledge apparatus, affords individual and collective bodies an alternative and additional space in the event of a possible rights infringement, to […]
via fuZZYface (Linda Stewart) The possibility of thinking law as thinking life Deleuze in a conversation with Foucault, suggested that a new relationship between theory and practice is emerging. Deleuze explains […]
via Terence Blake THE NON-PHILOSOPHY OF GILLES DELEUZE by Gregg Lambert available in pdf: https://www.academia.edu/12754102/The_Non-Philosophy_of_Gilles_Deleuze In other words, Deleuze’s philosophy ‘begins’ with the creation of the concept of the Other Person, and […]
via https://medium.com/@poetix/transits-notes-on-the-xenofeminist-manifesto-5f67089be070 by Dominic Fox It’s a bold gesture, to be sure: to insist on the conjugation of lived experience with stringent formal abstraction, on the compatibility and even identity in the […]
from brandon jourdan This short documentary is a rare behind-the-scenes look at Summer 2013 Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, Turkey. In late May 2013, political unrest swept across Turkey. In […]
News from the The New Centre for Research & Practice The New Centre for Research & Practice is very pleased to announce the the first book release by &&& Publishing. What […]
from Green Mill Filmworks A new visual interpretation of the classic Pink Floyd album originally created as a backdrop film for the Skycastle/Buzz Presents live 2002 performance in San Francisco. […]
Susan James discusses Spinoza on the good embodied life via Elucidations (A University of Chicago Philosophy Podcast) Spinoza … presented the mind and body as utterly different perspectives on the same […]
Achille Mbembe* and Sarah Nuttall at Indexing the Human Potent calls in recent weeks to decolonise South Africa’s universities open many new avenues for debate and action. These include: what […]
I am sharing a piece written by Dr. Andre Goodrich (South African Anthropologist and author of “Biltong Hunting as a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa” (2015)) focussing on the statue controversies in […]
These days it’s the rights of man that provide our eternal values. It’s the constitutional state and other notions everyone recognizes as very abstract. And it’s in the name of all this that thinking’s fettered, that any analysis in terms of movements is blocked. But if we’re so oppressed, it’s because our movement’s being restricted, not because our eternal values are being violated. In barren times philosophy retreats to reflecting “on” things. If it’s not itself creating anything, what can it do but reflect on something? So it reflects on eternal or historical things, but can itself no longer make any move (Deleuze Negotiations 121-122, emphasis added).”
Constitutional democracies – moving beyond abstraction and reflection – a politics of bodies, things and relations (continue) by Linda Stewart (firtst published on fuZZYface) 1 Introduction With reference to Deleuze’s […]
by Susan James Published on 8 Nov 2014 During the twentieth century, Spinoza was allotted a minor role in Anglophone histories of philosophy. Dwarfed by Descartes, Hobbes, Locke and Leibniz, […]
