Tag Archives: desire
Elizabeth Grosz on the appeal of Stoicism
From “Ontogenesis and the Ethics of Becoming“: KY: In terms of the Stoics, how might their approach to “dying well” offer us some resources for thinking amidst our current scene […]
Why Should We Read Spinoza?
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, […]
We Have Never Been Queer, Preciado & Halberstam
& Is radical-academic an oxymoron?
On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology – Stanimir Panayotov
https://www.academia.edu/1255122/On_Guattaris_Planetary_Psychopathology Planetary psychopathology is a term used by Guattari in an Italian-published text from the early80s (Guatari 1984). Psychopathology is the science that studies the mental disorders of human beings. […]
Anti-depressive Politics
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Notes for Living with the Elements – David Kleinberg-Levin
David Kleinberg-Levin obtained a Ph.D. Columbia University and is Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University. He taught in the Humanities Department at MIT from 1968 until 1972, when he joined the […]
Bracha Ettinger: Self-fragilize Your Self
WHERE ARE WE GOING, WALT WHITMAN? An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists. JAPAN SYNDROME — AMSTERDAM VERSION: brought together anarcho-urbanist, feminist psychoanalytic, cinematic, sci-fi, self-organizing, archival, and electro […]
Sex in the (Anthropocene) City
Claire Colebrook is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, and author of 11 books and numerous articles on Ethics, Deleuze, Milton, Evil in literary history […]
The Decline and Fall of Work
Raoul Vaneigem is a Belgian writer and philosopher. He was born in Lessines. After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels from 1952 to 1956, he participated in […]
Abjection & Bodies Adrift with Arthur Kroker
Arthur Kroker is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Theory and professor of political science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author or editor of […]
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 […]
Crash (1996)
“Civilized life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions […]
Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies
Originally posted on Continental Drift:
or, the Pathic Core at the Heart of Cybernetics [This text was developed through a large number of improvised presentations. Thanks to all who listened…
Deleuze’s Politics: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, and Nomadology
Daniel W Smith discussed Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s works Anti-Oedipus & A Thousand Plateaus at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2009. Smith, a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, is a […]
