May 2012
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“Unlike Rome, New York has never learned the art of growing old by playing on all...”
– Michel de Certeau
The Practice of Everyday Life
(via thegroundofmybeseeching)
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Urban Ecologies in the Performative City →
I just did a presentation on Urban Ecologies in the Performative city. Inspired by Guattaris Three Ecologies… I’m pretty happy with it, unfortunately it is Danish, but hopefully I will get the chance to do it in English one day. Link to the visual presentation here.
April 2012
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Occupy the Media - and the Message | The Nation →
“Occupy’s habit of obsessive self-documentation isn’t just pragmatic—it’s a matter of principle deeply woven into its DNA. “Without a doubt, a founding principle of OWS is transparency,” says Carrie, a member of the Occupy Wall Street facilitation and minutes working groups (who asked that I not give her last name). “We are trying to create within OWS what we want to see in the wider world....
Deleuze and Guattari on tools and assemblages
sonofapritch:
“… tools only exist in relation to the interminglings they make possible or that make them possible. The stirrup entails a new man–horse symbiosis that at the same time entails new weapons and new instruments. Tools are inseparable from symbioses or amalgamations defining a Nature–Society machinic assemblage. They presuppose a social machine that selects them and takes them into its...
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The plane of immanence or consistency
“In short, if we are Spinozists we will not define a thing by its form, nor by its organs and its functions, nor as a substance or a subject. (…)
In this way we construct the map of the body. The longitudes and latitudes together constitute Nature, the plane of immanence or consistency, which is always variable and is constantly being altered, composed and recomposed, by individuals and...
WatchGabriele Klein - (Micro-)Politics of Social Choreography. On the Relationship between Urban Diversities, Citizenship and Site Specific Dance Performances - dance-tech.tv@blip.tv on Blip
Empiricism - #Gramsci
RT driftwork: Ambiguous meaning of the term. The term empiricism is commonly used in the sense of non-scientific. But it is also used in the sense of non-categorical (characteristic of philosophical categories) and therefore of concrete and real in the bodily sense of the word. Empirical reality and categorical reality etc. For Croce, for example, the philosophical sciences are the sole true...
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“An intoxication comes over the man who walks long and aimlessly through the...”
– Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, Harvard University Press, p.41 7. via subflaneur
March 2012
23 posts
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Two types of assemblages // performativity →
“Deleuze and Guattari argue that the function of language is not to represent or refer, but to performatively enact what they call “incorporeal transformations”. Language, they say, is composed of order-words. What, then, is an incorporeal transformation? Drawing on speech-act theory, incorporeal transformations change nothing in the bodies upon which they alight, but everything in, we might...
polis: Participatory Public Art in a Favela →
As artists that use public space as a place to express, we have a responsibility. We have the capacity to communicate very loudly and in a direct way to the whole world, with no intermediaries. We should use this to keep attention on these areas, but not in a negative way, to try to change the perception people have from the outside — giving positive reasons to talk about them. “But the main...
Occupy and the Arab spring will continue to... →
Simon Critchley on #OWS and the location of politics:
“If the nation state or the supra-national sphere is not a location for politics, then the task is to create a location. This is the logic of occupation. The Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park taught us that much. Otherwise, we are doomed to the abstraction of demonstration and protest. The other thing it taught us is the...
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From the Occupy Library →
“If you want to understand what is biopolitical power in the age of the overloaded Infosphere, don’t read boring political analyses, rather try to develop the implications of the concept of mental double bind. If you want to imagine what the next process of liberation from capitalism will look like, don’t read political books, don’t think of politics. Rather you should figure out how...
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Everything that acts is a cruelty
“Everything that acts is a cruelty. It is upon this idea of extreme action, pushed beyond all limits, that theater must be rebuild (…) The separation between the analytic theater and the plastic world seems to us a stupidity. One does not separate the mind from the body nor the senses the intelligence, especially in a domain where the endlessly renewed fatigue of the organs requires intense...
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Anarchitecture →
“‘Do not forget the problem of architecture’, wrote Le Corbusier. ‘Anarchitecture attempts to solve no problem’,12 wrote Matta-Clark in one of the poetic and ambiguous statements in his notebooks. (In these words one hears an echo, impossible to verify, of Marcel Duchamp’s statement, ‘Il n’y a pas de solution parce qu’il n’y a pas de problème’, and beyond it to the concluding remarks in...
James on Radical Empiricism
"My description of things, accordingly, starts with the parts and makes of
the whole a being of the second order. It is essentially a mosaic
philosophy, a philosophy of plural facts, like that of Hume and his
descendants, who refer these facts neither to Substances in which they
inhere nor to an Absolute Mind that creates them as its objects. But it
differs from the Humian type of empiricism in...
“What really exists is not things made but things in the making.”
– - William James
Read James: Essays in Radical Empiricism here
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Michael Sorkin on the Origin of Species →
February 2012
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