Archive for May, 2009
31/05/2009
Identity/Division For one need not scrutinize the concept of “identification” very sharply to see, implied in it at every turn, its ironic counterpart: division. Kenneth Burke (A Rhetoric of Motives, New York, 1950, p.23, quoted F. Moretti, Signs Taken For Wonders, p.3)
31/05/2009
LOVE AND INTERACTION
“Love,” states Lacan, “is giving something you don’t have.” Exploring the relationship between interaction and exchange, George Simmel writes: “It might seem the two concepts are dissimilar in that interaction one gives something one does not have whereas in exchange one gives only what one does have, but the distinction does not really [...]
31/05/2009
SQUARES
In 1867 Emile Zola, a young journalist, dedicated one of his articles to the upcoming inauguration of a public space. The piece is entitled “The Squares” (Les squares). It begins: “The gates to the new Parmentier square, built on the site of the former Popincourt slaughterhouse, will soon be opened to the public.” Then come [...]
31/05/2009
INTERVIEW WITH SVEN-OLOV WALLENSTEIN
<a href="http://www.terraplexic.org/review/2009/5/30/architecture-biopolitics-an-interview-with-sven-olov-wallens.html”>Interview with Sven-Olov Wallenstein for CT Lab.
30/05/2009
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30/05/2009
PHARISEES
They confirmed their mutual understanding on a higher level by excluding one who did not pronounce the same credo they repeated to one another. What they fought for on a spiritual and intellectual plane they marked down as their ethos, as if it elevated the inner rank of a person to follow the teachings of [...]
30/05/2009
PARASITE
The parasite invents something new. He obtains energy and pays for it in information. He obtains the roast and pays for it with stories. Two days of writing the new contract. He establishes an unjust pact; relative to the old type of balance, he builds a new one. He speaks in a logic considered irrational [...]
