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The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Death Drives
The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Drive In our daily lives we create little worlds of our own and invest them with various meanings. These worlds have their own logics, orders repetitively staged...
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Slavoj Zizek – Arap devrimci ruhundan neden korkalım ki?
Tunus ve Mısır’daki ayaklanmalarda göze çarpmaması imkansız bir şey Müslüman köktenciliğin bariz bir şekilde yokluğuydu. Halk laik demokratik geleneğin en güzel örneklerinde görüldüğü gibi, yalnızca...
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Slavoj Zizek – Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?
The western liberal reaction to the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia frequently shows hypocrisy and cynicism… An Egyptian demonstrator uses his shoe to hit a picture of President Hosni Mubarak during a...
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S.C. Hickman on The Immortal Subject Beyond the Life Death Drives
“The creature called human can cease being a passive non-being and become an active being only insofar as it produces love against the negative power of the already existing capitalist law. As we all...
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Activism in structuralism: Badiou’s Cartesianism and the dehumanised humanism...
Speculative Humbug isn't dead! I've been terribly distracted recently but I've finally decided to make time to write something new for the blog and this is it. Hope you find it interesting. Comments...
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Zimmermann, ‘Basic Concepts of Transcendental Materialism’ [Updated] (via...
Yet another great recording from Backdoor Broadcasting Company – this time from Rainer E. Zimmermann on transcendental materialism. Blurb from Kingston University: Rainer Zimmermann is a philosopher,...
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Apocalypse Never – The End of the World from Hakim Bey, T.A.Z. The Temporary...
Communique #4 The End of the World The A.O.A.* declares itself officially bored with the End of the World. The canonical version has been used since 1945 to keep us cowering in fear of Mutual Assured...
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Oya Baydar – Derin Devletin Derin Kıbrıs’ı
Bir zamanlar Kıbrıs “Akdeniz’in ortasındaki batmaz uçak gemisi” diye anılırdı. İngiliz-Amerikan emperyalizmi ile Sovyet bloğunun tahtaravallisi, dünyanın en hassas çatışma/ denge noktalarından biriydi...
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Freedom’s Fairytale? Pt. 3 Narratology, the Ancestral and the Real (via...
Several points in the post are indebted to discussions here and here. Derrida's notion of language play and the purported death of the transcendental signifier seems to have anchored narratology, as it...
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the accursed share: Zizek and Materialism
“Adrian Johnston’s newest book, Zizek’s Ontology, is an impressive attempt at systematizing Zizek’s notoriously hyperactive writing style. Focused on developing a “transcendental materialist theory of...
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Meillassoux: Lenin’s Best Disciple (via Perverse Egalitarianism)
Here's another one. All that business about Meillassoux's arch-fossil argument being so immensely and devastatingly novel that surely now all the idealists correlationists will die a horrible death...
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FANGED NOUMENA: COLLECTED WRITINGS 1987-2007 Nick Land
FANGED NOUMENA: COLLECTED WRITINGS 1987-2007 Nick Land Forthcoming March 2011 Edited and with an Introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay Paperback 115x175mm, 560pp. Limited edition of 1000...
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On The Idea of Communism (via Total Assault On Culture)
Here is the speedy write-up of my notes from the three-day conference on The Idea of Communism, hosted by Slavoj Žižek at Birkbeck College, which included Judith Balso, Alain Badiou, Bruno Bosteels,...
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Harman on Deleuze and disappointing realisms (via Object-Oriented Philosophy)
One form of disappointing realism, in my opinion, is the kind that cares more to valorize certain forms of knowledge …Continue reading »
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Laughing all the way to the Bank, and eating a Banker – Notes on Subversive...
Events at the G20 protest in London simulate the possibilities of violence as an activist strategy that can step out …Continue reading »
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Alenka Zupančič On Comedy: The Odd One In (via Perverse Egalitarianism)
I picked up (seemingly by chance) a new book by Alenka Zupančič – The Odd One In: On Comedy – …Continue reading »
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Intellectual Mitosis (via Aberrant Monism)
One does not have to do more than a cursory review of intellectual history to find intellectual bifurcations everywhere. There's …Continue reading »
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Excision Ethos: Flat Ontology and the Posthuman Object/Subject (via Dark...
“Transhumanism for me is like a relationship with an obsessive and very neurotic lover. Knowing it is deeply flawed, I …Continue reading »
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Slavoj Zizek – For Egypt, this is the miracle of Tahrir Square
One cannot but note the “miraculous” nature of the events in Egypt: something has happened that few predicted, violating the …Continue reading »
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Slavoj Zizek – Liberal çokkültürcülük, eski bir barbarizmi insan yüzüyle...
Romanların yani nâm-ı diğer Çingenelerin Fransa’dan sürülmesi liberal medyadan üst düzey politikacılara kadar – ki sırf sol siyasetçilerden ibaret de …Continue reading »
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