Alain Badiou: What is Called a Failure?
SubSense The mid-1970s saw the beginnings of the ebb the ‘red decade’ ushered in by the fourfold circumstances of national liberation struggles (in Vietnam and Palestine in particular), the...
View ArticleThe Event as Slavoj Zizek puts it
“A tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in Indonesia!” “The people have won! The dictator has run away!” “How is something as beautiful as Beethoven’s last piano sonata even possible?” All these...
View ArticleThe Ontologies of Resistance from Senselogic to Cybersense
All your data, all your base… This study is a venture into the relationship between humanities/social sciences and the emerging technologies such as the software programs extracting and analysing Big...
View ArticlePickering’s The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future (pdf)
“Imagine a peculiar (and even weird) string quartet, in which each player responds by improvisation to ideas and cues of his or her own, as well as to all kinds of sensory cues in the environment....
View ArticleThe Legacy and The Future of Foucault
Foucault, without directly referring to him, shows that Hobbes’s monster has become a machine. I argue that this machine is itself in a process of transformation today, and is in the way of taking the...
View ArticleYaratıcı Yazarlık Kitapları
1. Yazının Felsefesi / İyi Yazarlar Neden İyi Yazarlar? (Edgar Allan Poe) 2. Ernest Hemingway – Yazmak Üzerine 3. Yazma Sanatı (Stephen King) 4. Danell Jones -Virginia Woolf’tan Yazarlık Dersleri 5....
View ArticleAccelerationist Art
“Accelerationist art is working out how to climb over the event horizon of contemporary art, helping to make a better future seem possible, analysing and transforming technocapital, and ironically...
View ArticleBadiou, Kant, Hegel
There are two main philosophical targets of Badiou as he puts it in The Subject of Art:[4] Those who identify the body and the subject, in which case creativity can only take the form of...
View ArticleGilles Deleuze’s Postscript on the Societies of Control (Video)
“Could it be that Deleuze’s most lasting legacy will lie in his “Postscript on Control Societies,” a mere 2,300 word essay from 1990? Such a strange little text, it bears not the same Deleuzean voice...
View ArticleYaratıcı Yazarlık Kitapları
1. Yazının Felsefesi / İyi Yazarlar Neden İyi Yazarlar? (Edgar Allan Poe) 2. Ernest Hemingway – Yazmak Üzerine 3. Yazma Sanatı (Stephen King) 4. Danell Jones -Virginia Woolf’tan Yazarlık Dersleri 5....
View ArticleJean-Luc Moulène in conversation with Alain Badiou and Reza Negarestani (Video)
Between a contemporary philosophy of contemporary art and an art contemporary with contemporary philosophy… ~ Urbanomic Sunday, October 29, 2017 University Settlement 184 Eldridge Street New York, NY...
View ArticleArmen Avanessian in search of a new temporality: How our present is governed...
The question is, what can artistic practice and theoretical speculation do for one another? The aim is to achieve an art practice contemporary with up-to-date theory and a theoretical practice...
View ArticleThe Legacy and The Future of Foucault
Foucault, without directly referring to him, shows that Hobbes’s monster has become a machine. I argue that this machine is itself in a process of transformation today, and is in the way of taking the...
View ArticleThe End Times Philosophy Interviews
[Art: Bob Dylan] As we hit the 300 mark a couple of weeks ago I thought it might be a good idea to organise them in one place for readers who might find it useful. So here is the whole series so far....
View ArticleThe Legacy and The Future of Foucault
Foucault, without directly referring to him, shows that Hobbes’s monster has become a machine. I argue that this machine is itself in a process of transformation today, and is in the way of taking the...
View ArticleNew Media Admission Requirements
Applications for 2018-2019 are now open… All admissions will be on 50% or 100% scholarships… Portfolio Content Your portfolio consists of the examples of your work. The portfolio informs the New Media...
View Article21 Paragraphs on Badiou by Alexander Galloway
e-flux Journal #89 – March 2018 Alexander R. Galloway Following in the spirit of book reviews written about books that do not exist, I offer here—no doubt at my own peril—a series of observations in...
View ArticleZeno’s Paradox as an Image of Time
What Zeno actually wants to say is that we can only perceive the world as it is for us, not as it is in-itself… In a similar fashion, we perceive time only as divided units represented by clocks...
View ArticleThe Legacy and The Future of Foucault
Foucault, without directly referring to him, shows that Hobbes’s monster has become a machine. I argue that this machine is itself in a process of transformation today, and is in the way of taking the...
View ArticleNew Media and Beyond
The question is simply this: What can artistic practice and theoretical speculation do for one another? The aim is to achieve an art practice contemporary with up-to-date theory and a theoretical...
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