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Simon Sellars, Applied Ballardianism (Urbanomic, 2018) I have never cared that much for science fiction, or Ballard for that matter, save for a handful of short stories. Which is obviously not the best way to start a review of a book you are passionate about and which is entitled Applied Ballardianism. But…

The oldest combat of the intellect is undoubtedly the one that Plato organized under the name of philosophy, against a precisely named enemy: δοξα, opinion. The intellect builds arguments, refers at each step to previously clarified notions, passes from the singular to the universal and back again, in order to free individuals from fallacious images and mass constraints,… Continue Reading →

From the philosophical documentary Hyperstition by Christopher Roth, 2015. The future was a better key to the present than the past… ~ J.G. Ballard https://hyperstition.org/

I’ve suffered from depression intermittently since I was a teenager. Some of these episodes have been highly debilitating – resulting in self-harm, withdrawal (where I would spend months on end in my own room, only venturing out to sign-on or to buy the minimal amounts of food I was consuming), and time spent on psychiatric … Continue reading Mark Fisher in his Own Words, on his Own Depression

Ontological Catastrophes and Transcendental Time Machines: Dialectics of Time and Event from Kant and Hegel, across Deleuze and Badiou, towards New Futures by Cengiz Erdem

 

Hyperstition: Altering the Supposedly Predestined Future, or, Utopia as Method, Structure, and Process by Cengiz Erdem

 

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 practice contemporary with up-to-date art… This requires the construction of a space-time continuum between the contemporary theories of new art forms and the new … Continue reading New Media and Beyond

This is a slice of my doctoral dissertation from back in 2009, first written in 2007. Bliss is to have the technology now making it possible to share it in this Audio/Video format after all these years. I’ll further elaborate the effects of listening to one’s old writings read out loud in the times to … Continue reading Artaud, Deleuze, and the Will to Nothingness (Audio Essay)

Geographers say there are two kinds of islands. This is valuable information for the imagination because it confirms what the imagination already knew. Nor is it the only case where science makes mythology more concrete, and mythology makes science more vivid. Continental islands are accidental, derived islands. They are separated from a continent, born of … Continue reading Desert Islands – Gilles Deleuze

Title: Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts Author: Various Edited by: Jasia Reichardt Publisher: Studio International Special Issue Year: 1968 Pages: 106 Download PDF  Cybernetic Serendipity is the title of an exhibition that I have elsewhere referred to as a cult event for those interested in using technology for creative arts. In 1968 the artist and curator Jasia Reichardt conceived the project … Continue reading Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts (PDF & Video)

“The internet is perhaps the defining technological advance of the last fifty years. It has opened up a new world of possibilities, but what if it also represents an existential threat to humanity? That is the alarming possibility raised by computer scientist Jaron Lanier. He is no tech-phobic sensationalist; he is a Silicon Valley insider … Continue reading Jaron Lanier on the Internet and Social Media (Video)

“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are ruled by criminals.”/Artist credit: Dran Preaching peace, when the ruling class profit from war, ultimately makes you a target/Artist credit: Banksy The illusion of choice…/Artist unknown “Feed me!”/Artist credit: John Holcroft Athletes have turned into walking advertisements/Artist credit: Luis Quiles Go to school, study … Continue reading ART COMFORTS THE DISTURBED AND DISTURBS THE COMFORTABLE

by Vernon W. Cisney  The first scholarly comparative analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze’s philosophies of difference… “Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze are best known for their respective attempts to theoretically formulate non-dialectical conceptions of difference. Now, for the first time, Vernon W. Cisney brings you a scholarly analysis of their contrasting concepts of difference.” … Continue reading Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative

“Moses Muggi Dane has collaborated with Stykke to bring to us this interesting style of Techno and Psy. Melodies of anticipation and stack of doof to keep the cogs turning. This track is perfect to put the listener in a haze.” The Evolution Blueprints by Various Artists Released on February 8, 2012 by Triple Drop … Continue reading State Of Absence ~ Muggi Dane and Stykke

Slavoj Žižek and William Davies: Like a Thief in Broad Daylight 25 September 2018 “In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world – changing it almost beyond recognition. In his new book, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight (Penguin) Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big … Continue reading Interview with Slavoj Žižek on “Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism”

When everything appears similar, nothing really is… ~ Alain Badiou   Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away… ~ Philip K. Dick   It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism… ~ Fredric Jameson   If you are … Continue reading Postnihilistic Speculations: The Ontology of Non-Being (Audio/Video Essay)

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It has become common today to announce, for various reasons, the end of the human species as we know it. In the typically messianic direction that a certain ecology proceeds, the predatory excesses of this bad animal that is the human will soon lead to the end of the living world.…

Let’s reflect on the goings on in France of these last few weeks. Can we call this an insurrection? The answer – of course – depends on what we mean by the word insurrection, yet whatever our understanding may be, something of the sort has taken place. And will probably continue. What tells us this […] … Continue reading Antonio Negri weighs in on the French Insurrection

LA GAZETTE D’ALIAHOVA « EN TOUT, HENRYEN! » N. 100, DÉCEMBRE 2018 1 DÉCEMBRE 2018 Rédigé par Roland Vaschalde et publié depuis Overblog Ces quelques chiffres en guise de bilan (provisoire) de l’existence de la Gazette d’Aliahova, dont la diffusion commença sous forme d’envoi par mails en 2010 avant de prendre sa forme actuelle de … Continue reading Actualité Concernant le Philosophe Michel Henry (Bibliographie, Informations, Articles)

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An epiphany was had today, and — as ever — it was because of something Robin said. A frequently debated and ridiculed suggestion that circles the acceleratosphere is that capital has its own agency; that it is an autonomous agency. What is meant by this is very dependent on context. […] Badiou, in the article shared … Continue reading A Note on Eerie Agentic Capital — xenogothic

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DOWNLOAD ‘I’m 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?‘ This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young. Today young people, at least in the West, are on the brink of a new world.…

D’ailleurs, Derrida | A film by Safaa Fathy | English Subtitles | An exploration of the man and his ideas, DERRIDA’S ELSEWHERE investigates the parallels between the personal life and the life work of arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th Century, Jacques Derrida. We follow Derrida around his home, office, in the classroom … Continue reading Derrida’s Elsewhere [Documentary, 1999]

“A Hegelian philosopher and leading figure on the academic left, Žižek is the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books. His critical analysis of popular culture has gained him international recognition, and he has been called the ‘Elvis of cultural theory.’ His most recent book, Like A … Continue reading Slavoj Žižek’s Full Lecture and Debate at Oxford Union [Nov 9, 2018]

“Nick Land is a British philosopher living in Shanghai. Nick is one of the main figures in the school of thought known as accelerationism. He is currently writing a book about the philosophical implications of Bitcoin. We talked about accelerationism, cybernetics, ideology, the evolution of Nick’s perspective, Deleuze and Guattari, emancipation and dehumanization, artificial intelligence, … Continue reading Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital: Interview with Nick Land

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The History of spirit is its own deed; for spirit is only what it does, and its deed is to make itself – in this case as spirit – the object of its own consciousness, and to comprehend itself in its interpretation of itself to itself. —G.W.F. Hegel, Elements…

BY ALEX YOUNG “Musicians have an absolute right, a duty, to open their mouths to speak out…” – Roger Waters Though Roger Waters did not write Pink Floyd’s The Wall as an allegory about any real-life structure, the band’s 1979 opus subsequently took on such an interpretation. In July 1990, Waters performed the album in Berlin, Germany to commemorate the fall of the … Continue reading Roger Waters Considers Performing Pink Floyd’s The Wall on US-Mexico Border

“A computational process philosophy? A modeling of philosophical Lego? Reza Negarestani’s Intelligence and Spirit is by no means a Neo-Hegelian revival, but a provocative methodological attempt to apply some of Hegel’s critical contentions on reason and spirit to the Kantian epistemological program. The result is a philosophical tour de force that reintroduces Hegel’s Geist to Kant in … Continue reading Intelligence and Spirit by Reza Negarestani

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Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism’ by Slavoj Žižek (PDF/Doc)Slavoj Zizek’s Less Than Nothing / CHAPTER 4 – IS IT STILL POSSIBLE TO BE A HEGELIAN TODAY? (PART 1)

“By the act of reflection something is altered in the way in which the fact was originally presented in sensation, perception, or conception. Thus, as it appears, an alteration must be interposed before the true nature of the object can be discovered. What reflection elicits is a product of our thought. Solon, for instance, produced … Continue reading Hegel’s Logic on Kantian Scepticism

Slavoj Žižek weighs in on the Future of Marx’s Analysis of Capitalism and the Causes of Depression in Our Perilous Times… “The NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present “The Fate of the Commons: A Trotskyite View” with Slavoj Žižek as part of NYU Skirball’s “On Your Marx” festival in celebration of … Continue reading Slavoj Žižek: The Effects of Capitalist Dynamics and the Causes of Depression

Two years today. Popped down to the mural. We miss you, Mark. via 13/01 — xenogothic Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived By Hua Hsu |December 11, 2018 |The New Yorker| Fisher feared that we were losing our ability to conceptualize a tomorrow that was radically different from our present. Photograph by … Continue reading Mark Fisher (aka k-punk) *** 11/7/68 ~ 13/1/17 *** — xenogothic

“A discussion between Slavoj Žižek, Rebecca Comay, and Frank Ruda which will revolve around Comay and Ruda’s book The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing.” Deutsches Haus at NYU, October 23, 2018. “In The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (MIT Press, 2018), the authors present a reading of Hegel’s most reviled concept, absolute knowing. … Continue reading The Dash in Hegel’s Logic and Phenomenology: Slavoj Žižek—Rebecca Comay—Frank Ruda [Full Discussion]

  | SRF Sternstunde Philosophie | Published on Jan 18, 2019 | Slavoj Žižek: Down with ideology! “He is considered philosophy’s enfant terrible, provokes those on the right and on the left and analyses events from the perspective of Marx and Hegel. Above all, Slavoj Zizek is hip, and has been for decades. The eloquent … Continue reading Interview with Slavoj Žižek on Ideology and Traversing the Fantasy [2019 | Video]

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 Department about your creative interest, experience, skills and direction. Choose your best work that provide a sampling of your practice and document it … Continue reading New Media Admission Requirements

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| Nottingham Trent University | Join NTU’s world-class research community, with our fully-funded phd studentship opportunities. From climate change to cancer and airline security to food safety, we’re tackling society’s biggest challenges with research that is transforming the world and saving lives. So come and change yours. We give our researchers the tools they need to succeed: … Continue reading Over 50 fully funded PhD studentships

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| Free PDF eBook from CRMEP | Edited by Peter Osborne, Éric Alliez and Eric-John Russell Contributors: Éric Alliez, Étienne Balibar, Tithi Bhattacharya, Boris Buden, Sara. R. Farris, John Kraniauskas, Elena Louisa Lange, Maurizio Lazzarato, Antonio Negri, Peter Osborne, Eric-John Russell, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Keston Sutherland The first in a new series of free ebooks from … Continue reading Capitalism: Concept, Idea, Image – Aspects of Marx’s Capital Today (Free eBook)

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DOWNLOAD or STREAM The eight-hour series of interviews between Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, filmed by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988-1989. The individual episodes are: ‘A as in Animal’, ‘B as in “Boire” (Drink)’, ‘C as in Culture’, ‘D as in Desire’, ‘E as in “Enfance” (Childhood)’, ‘F as in Fidelity’, ‘G as in Gauche (Left)’, ‘H … Continue reading Gilles Deleuze from A to Z: Interviews with Claire Parnet | Documentary Film | 1996 |

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DOWNLOAD Love without risks is like war without deaths – but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love – without the key ingredient of chance – is in danger of withering on the vine. In In Praise…

| By Simge Çerkezoğlu | 2 June 2018 | Video | | Arkın University of Creative Arts and Design | “Literature is to write what one has not personally experienced as well. The aim is to present quality works to the world of literature. And while doing this, I try to explain that in literature, in particular, one needs to write not just … Continue reading Interview with Cengiz Erdem on Creativity in Literature, Cinema, and Philosophy

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Zamanın uçurumundan ve ötesindeki karanlıktan başka ne görüyorsunuz? – William Shakespeare Kanlı bir yumurta sarısı. Bir çarşafa yayılan yanmış bir delik. Herkesi açmakla tehdit eden öfkeli bir gül. – May Svvenson Dipsiz bir uçurumun içine baktığınız zaman, o da sizin içinize bakar. – Friedrich Nietzsche Baktıkça bakıyorsunuz kendinize, Yetişir! Bu da hiç konuşmayan adam yapıyor… Continue reading Ölümlü, Pek Ölümlü: Kitab-ı Nihil ve Postnihilistik Spekülasyonlar

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“Leave the Venezuelan people alone to exercise their legal right to self-determination.” ~ #RogerWaters #HandsOffVenezuela

“Good morning. My name is Roger Waters. I’m in Europe and today is the day of action. It is the 23rd of February, 2019. There is a story here. It’s about Venezuela. In 1998 after the Venezuelan people democratically elected a socialist government, the government nationalized the oil industry that is maybe, where the story … Continue reading A Letter to teleSUR and a Message from Roger Waters on Venezuela (Video)

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