March 2012
4 posts
“Yet it is precisely the immanence of man to man, or it is man, taken absolutely,...”
– Jean-Luc Nancy
Things That Quicken The Heart: ‘The brand of... →
aporianonymous:
‘The brand of Latourian metaphysics advertising itself under the banner of ‘speculative realism’ strikes me not only as confused but as profoundly regressive. Those who, unlike Meillassoux and Grant, think they can afford to sidestep the Kantian problem of the relationship between…
In other words: “Harman, you’re a douche.”
February 2012
57 posts
Things That Quicken The Heart: ‘…the fundamental... →
aporianonymous:
‘…the fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly, and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered: “Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?” How can they possibly reach the point of shouting: “More taxes!…
“The One is no longer a promise, it is a premise.”
– Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude
“The multitude, which is the polar opposite of the people, takes on the slightly...”
– Paolo Virno
“It is not the ego but the Other as structure which renders perception possible.”
– Gilles Deleuze, A Theory of the Other (via hollovv)
“The most general operation of sense is this: it brings that which expresses it...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Logic of Sense (via hollovv)
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“I call ‘communism’ the real movement that elaborates, everywhere and...”
– Tiqqun
“The financial class which has taken the lead of the European political machine...”
– Franco Berardi, THE RIGHT TO INSOLVENCY AND THE DISENTANGLEMENT OF THE GENERAL INTELLECTʼS POTENCY
Marx & Sparks: Liverpool workers ‘locked out’ by... →
marxandsparks:
From Working Class Self Organisation @ Libcom.
Striking workers in Liverpool have been locked out of their factory in a dispute over redundancies. In response, they have occupied the factory. The occupation has been temporarily suspended as their initial demands have been met. It…
“Sadomasochism is precisely the technique of sexuality by which the bare life of...”
– Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer
from A Dog Has Died - Pablo Neruda
Some day I’ll join him right there,
but now he’s gone with his shaggy coat,
his bad manners and his cold nose,
and I, the materialist, who never believed
in any promised heaven in the sky
for any human being,
I believe in a heaven I’ll never enter.
Yes, I believe in a heaven for all dogdom
where my dog waits for my arrival
waving his fan-like tail in friendship.
“Philosophy begins in the moment in which the speaker, against the religio of the...”
– Giorgio Agamben, The Sacrament of Language
“For the living human being who found himself speaking, what must have been just...”
– Giorgio Agamben, The Sacrament of Language
“Historical method is philological method, a method that has as its foundation...”
– Walter Benjamin
circulationwithinmyskull replied to your post: circulationwithinmyskull replied to your post:…
Yes, I’ve worked my way through it. The set theory takes time, but once you wrap your head around it, it all comes together. I’d really recommend Peter Hallward’s ‘Badiou, A Subject to Truth, to read alongside it. It’s a great text.
I have read excerpts from that, will have to get it. Was hoping...
circulationwithinmyskull replied to your post: Taken with instagram
How you finding the Badiou?
I’ve only just started Being and Event but it’s really good. I can see set theory being really difficult though. I’m mainly reading to see the progress from the theory of the subject. Have you read it/your thoughts?
#Occupymyheart
metonymia:
I studied the classics and I’m here to report that Socrates was into S & M.
With children.
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Anybody going the Zizek talk at Birkbeck on 24th Feb?
“How can a pure multiplicity, a set, appear in a world, in a very complex network...”
– (Falling back in love with) Alain Badiou
“Communism can only be equated with planning to the extent to which it is firstly...”
– (A. Negri, 1979)
“Since the idea to be realized is the idea of a synthesis of Mastery and Slavery,...”
– Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel (via negations)
Fuck paying £140 for a conference.
“A feminist perspective drives a lot of my sense of purpose to make The New...”
– Rachel Rosenfelt, founder and Editor in Chief of The New Inquiry in an interview for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Read the full interview here.
(via thenewinquiry)
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