no boredom
In Mark Fisher’s talk he repeated the recent intervention made by the Institute for Precarious Consciousness where it states that we have moved from a world of boredom to one […]
Tag Archives: affect
Accelerationism, Desire and Madness
Last night at the Glasgow School of Art Mark Fisher took the stage to discuss accelerationism. I have to say that up until last night I had given only a passing interest […]
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary – the host is a bit lacking but Rabinow is probably the most important intellectual of our time… http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/shows/eo10175.mp3 Paul Rabinow is Professor […]
Tim Ingold’s Being Alive: Essays on Movement (pdf)
Tim Ingold’s Being Alive: Essays on Movement (pdf) Tim Ingold is a British anthropologist, and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. His interests are wide ranging: environmental perception, […]
Unknowing and the Anosognosia of Everyday Life
Excepts From Interviews with David Dunning and V.S. Ramachandran Many have argued that human rationality grants us special access to the depths of psychological and metaphysical realities. Current advances in […]
Vibrant Matter & the Political Economy of Life
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zCaku4N0SM http://www.thomaslemkeweb.de/biografie-engl.htm
Agonism, Pluralism, and Contemporary Capitalism
An Interview with William E. Connolly William E. Connolly is a political theorist known for his work on democracy and pluralism and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins […]
Naturalism’s Nihilistic Tendencies, Olivier Surel
What is a Minor Literature? Deleuze&Guattari
pdf get it while it lasts… ‘What is a Minor Literature?‘,by Deleuze & Guattari Deleuze and Guattari outline the three characterizing elements of a ‘minor literature’: 1) the deterritorializations of a […]
Dynamical Systems & the Extended Mind, Richard Menary
Richard Menary is a research fellow in the Department of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University in Sidney, Australia. Menary is the editor of The Extended Mind (2010), and leader in […]
Judith Butler on ‘Precarious Life: The Obligations of Proximity’ (1/7)
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist, whose work has had a significant influence on the fields of feminist, queer, and literary theory, philosophy, […]
For An Affective Anarchism
Joseph Kay’s call for an affective politics is one I agree with and have made in other (non-anarchist) circles. For me part of the problem of leaving affect out of the picture […]
Nature Poetics and Ecological Praxis
With regards to my last post Jeremy at Struggles Forever has provided an important reminder: [T]he conception of Nature as a container, in my opinion, conveys the wrong message. Containers delimit and […]
The Anthropocene and the Apocalypse: from the ecological to the ecologistical
The question of ecological ethics and politics has been raised once again. I occasionally fear that our images of ecology and politics remain stills rather than cinematic motion pictures. This […]
The Persistence of Belief
The elimination and ratification of belief The problem of nihilism is also the problem of belief. If our highest values have corroded and our firmest foundations have been removed from […]
Generation Todestrieb
My entire generation is traumatised by something that hasn’t happened yet. Shaking and sleeplessness, autoimmolatory alcoholism, fits of violent rage and sobbing breakdowns, weeks of self-imposed seclusion, an epidemic of […]
Rhythm and Animality in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of the Flesh
One of the stereotypical notions that are used to characterize the post-modern turn is that “It” championed the end of grand/meta-narratives, but it might be more useful these days to […]
To Cultivate An Active Suicidality: possibility and suicide
Introduction In this essay I want to discuss suicide from within a Heideggerian perspective as a form of freedom. In doing so I will be making the distinction between suicide-as-event […]
The Posthuman Predicament: Affect, Power and Ethics – Rosi Braidotti
Interesting talk on Spinoza vs Hegel, Zizek is a court-jester but certainly not an “idiot” and while I think he goes too far by projecting a kind of alienation into […]
Public Feelings
Public Feelings Salon with Lauren Berlant Just as feminism has sought to identify the ways in which the personal and the political are linked, the study of “public feelings” draws […]
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