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the im/possibility of arrival

August 30, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

“The fantastic, then, pushes towards an area of non-signification. It does this either by attempting to articulate ‘the unnameable’, the ‘nameless things’ of horror fiction, attempting to visualize the unseen, […]

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‘Capitalism and its Threats’ (2018) via Žižek

October 19, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

I’m not convinced Žižek is genuine in a lot of his critiques. Maybe he relishes in being a bit of a gadfly? I do, however, always come away from his […]

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Zizek

“Is reality itself.. impenetrable?” – Afterthoughts on Žižek/Harman debate

September 18, 2017by ||| 1 Comment

SCI-Arc invites you to take a closer look at a debate between two philosophers with a particular influence on art and culture. What about this event should interest an artist, […]

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Harman, Zizek

Vibrant Matter, Zero Landscape: Bennett vs. Zizek

March 26, 2017by dmf 1 Comment

“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 […]

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Bennett, Zizek

Zizek and Harman in Conversation

March 6, 2017by ||| 1 Comment
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Harman, Zizek

Statue controversies in South Africa – reimagine/recontextualise/replace

April 15, 2015by Linnewho 3 Comments

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 […]

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images, Zizek

Madness and the Symbolic Order?

October 14, 2014by ||| 4 Comments

I disagree with Žižek on the radical distinctness of human subjectivity. I think sapience is an elaborated capacity of sentience, which is itself a capacity emerging from organic dispositionality viz. […]

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Zizek

Anti-depressive Politics

June 13, 2014by Arran Crawford 13 Comments

A new Prometheus need not take the form of the ‘Modern Prince’, the party, if the latter is regarded as a commanding height and centre supervenient on any other council, […]

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Bookchin, Cioran, Toscano, Zizek

The Catastrophic and the Post-apocalyptic

August 21, 2013by Arran Crawford 5 Comments

The present is filled with catastrophe and apocalypticism. A certain phrase has been deployed and redeployed in summarising the condition we find ourselves in: it is easier to imagine the end […]

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Calder Williams, Crawford, Dupay, Morton, Ranciere, Uncategorized, Virilio, Williams, Zizek

The possibility of hope: a short film about no future

June 13, 2013by Arran Crawford 2 Comments

The Possibility of Hope is a short 2007 documentary that accompanied the home release of the brilliant film Children of Men (a film that only becomes more pertinent) focussing on […]

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Gray, Klein, Lovelock, Sassen, Todorov, Zizek

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