MIRRORS
Archive for the ‘Other’ Category
19/05/2009
So you presume
So you presume. But for what reason exactly are you led you to presume this? And what part does this issue play with regards to discourse?
You are fucking furious.
And then questions occur to you. Of partners, and questions of scenes. Questions of desire. What do you want? Who are you talking to? What [...]
23/04/2009
Let every
eye negotiate
for itself
Made out of glances. Sewn together from scraps. It has been a long time. Between you and them. On the inside. You want to say something. But what are the rules? Are there some?
Ssh.
Meredith Ciel, “Nuit Blanche” in Il n’ya pas de rapport intellectuelle [(trans. S. Parker) University of East [...]
03/04/2009
BECOMING MARX
INSTRUCTIONS
1 Take all of the bookmarks in your “history” folder.
2 Put them all into one folder.
3 Work out the logic of their interrelation.
31/03/2009
SCHEMA
[B]eyond their physical reality, the territories of [Trantor/Korell] have constituted a schematic description of a conceptual system whose properties have been used to understand other geopolitical problems. The Rebellion unfolding in [Kalgan] is part of an imaginary geography that [Hari Seldon] called the [“Korellization of Kalgan”]. Yet if the [Kalgani] resistance is perceived to have [...]
19/03/2009
AVANT-GARDE
Jean-Luc Nancy will be present throughout the conference and will intervene in the discussions.
06/03/2009
OPEN SOURCE BLURBS
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Fiction:
[INSERT TITLE] by [INSERT AUTHOR] is a [REMARKABLE/POWERFUL/HILARIOUS] tale of [POWERFUL THEME] and [POWERFUL THEME]. [IDEALLY BY A FAMOUS CELEBRITY/MEDIA PERSONALITY]
Academic:
[INSERT TITLE] by [INSERT AUTHOR] provides an [INTELLIGENT/DILLIGENT/SCINTILLATING] study of the interactions between [FIELD 1/FIELD 2]. It is [ESSENTIAL/NECESSARY/VITAL] reading for anyone concerned with [TOPIC OF GREAT IMPORTANCE]. [IDEALLY BY A WELL-SELLING THEORIST/THESES [...]
02/03/2009
ENSEMBLE
Ensemble TV shows generate party games, in which guests have to decide which of the main characters they most closely resemble. Ross, Chandler, Joey. Rachel, Monica, Phoebe. Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, Charlotte. We must naturally scorn these games, in favor of more profound matters. Heidegger, Lacan, Marx. Derrida, Foucault, Agamben. Nietzsche, Hegel, Lenin, Kant.
