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Speculative Realism book series from Edinburgh University Press (via...
I'm pleased to announce that Edinburgh University Press is launching a book series in speculative realism (my own book on …Continue reading »
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Kıbrıslı Türkler’de “Yeni” Onur Anlayışı ve Toplumsal Varoluş – Bülent Evre
28 Ocak Toplumsal Varoluş Mitingi, Tunus’ta başlayan toplumsal hareketin yarattığı domino etkisiyle Cezayir, Fas, Ürdün ve Mısır gibi Ortadoğu ülkelerinde …Continue reading »
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Turkish Cypriots: between the devil and the deep blue sea – Amanda Paul
As many other people, I was disappointed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s reaction to a protest staged by Turkish …Continue reading »
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New Climes: Critical Theory, Environmentalism, and Climate Change
June 13th 2011 Confirmed plenary speakers: Ian Buchanan (Cardiff University) Claire Colebrook (Penn State University) Timothy Morton (UC-Davis) Climate change …Continue reading »
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Anonymous Hackers Target Totalitarianisms All Over the World
A loosely organised group of hackers has been targeting oppressive regimes and has said this is just the beginning. No …Continue reading »
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The Cont®act
The word cont(r)act in the title means two things at the same time. The first one is counter-act and the …Continue reading »
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The Nietzschean Subject
Nietzsche creates the concept of bad conscience as the generator of illness, which is in turn fed by the illness …Continue reading »
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Barbaric Regress and Civilised Progress contra Deconstruction and Affirmative...
There are many forms in which the death drive manifests itself. These vary from melancholia to aggression, from self-destruction to …Continue reading »
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S.C. Hickman aka Dark Chemistry on The Nietzschean Subject; or, the...
“In a world full of violence, destruction and death, or “madness in every direction,” as Kerouac would have said, the …Continue reading »
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Bataille and the Surrealists: Is Pineal Eye an Organ Without a Body?
The pineal eye is not the organ that turns two different perspectives into one. It rather attempts to turn the reality inside …Continue reading »
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Peter Hallward – Arab uprisings mark a turning point for the taking
It’s not only in the Middle East that the balance of power is moving. The old neoliberal order has also …Continue reading »
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Hallward weighs in heavily, Harman responds immediately (via Object-Oriented...
Peter Hallward in The Guardian, via Cengiz Erdem’s blog: “Whatever happens next, the people of north Africa and the …Continue reading »
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S.C. Hickman on J.G. Ballard: Icarus and the Dying Fall into Nothingness
“For Bataille, the reason why people see the foot as inferior to the head is their habit of attributing a …Continue reading »
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Daniel Levitin presenting some musical Speculative Realism! (via Conatus)
Well, not exactly. But there is plenty of anti-correlationism and anti-anthropocentrism going down in this passage from Daniel Levitin's pretty …Continue reading »
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Some of my favourite Detroit techno tracks (via Conatus)
Carl Craig, Derrick May, Detroit techno, Drexciya, Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance by kalleconatus I just wanted to post …Continue reading »
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Alain Badiou – Tunus’taki İsyan Üzerine
Alain Badiou Bugün sizlerle Tunus’daki ayaklanmalar üzerine konuşacağız. Bu senenin konusundan, ‘dünyayı değiştirmek’ ne anlama gelir? [Que signifie «changer le …Continue reading »
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Alain Badiou on Tunisia, riots and revolution (via wrong+arithmetic)
N.B. This is a rough translation of Daniel Fischer’s transcription of the 19 January 2011 session of Alain Badiou’s seminar …Continue reading »
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Alain Badiou: “Tunisie, Egypte : quand un vent d’est balaie l’arrogance de...
Read an English translation of Alain Badiou‘s recent article for Le Monde. Translation kindly provided by Cristiana Petru-Stefanescu. The Eastern …Continue reading »
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A Pineal Eye Soliloquy, or, The Critique of Surrealism Continued
Image via Wikipedia Mimicry is a definitive word for the operations of Surrealist aesthetics and it enters the scene through …Continue reading »
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Cinema and Fetishism, or, The Commercial Value of Shit
Even shit has a commercial value, depending of course, on whose shit it is. While in the case of human …Continue reading »
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