February 2012
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Notes on the city as a plane of consistency?
The plane of consistency would be the totality of all BwO’s, a pure multiplicity of immanence, one piece of which may be Chinnese, another American, another medieval, another petty peverse, but all in a movement of generalized deterritorialization in which each person takes and makes what she or he can, according to tastes she or he will have succeeded in abstracting from a Self [Moi],...
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Nietzsche: The will to power is not a being, not a...
How could I forget Nietzsche… Dynamic quanta it is!
In order to sustain the theory of a mechanistic world, therefore, we always have to stipulate to what extent we are employing two fictions: the concept of motion (taken from our sense language) and the concept of the atom (=unity, deriving from our psychical “experience”): the mechanistic theory presupposes a sense prejudice and...
Deleuze and performance
“The Deleuzian concept of affect or becoming also holds great promise for the analysis of how performance impacts upon an audience, offering an alternative to the over-emphasis on interpretation and the construction of meaning that derives from Performance Studies’ embrace of semiotics, critical theory and psychoanalysis. As Barbara Kennedy suggests in this volume, each of these discourses...
Deleuze and Performance →
By Laura Cull, 2009, 272 pages, PDF. via chikuwaq
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Jacobs on planning
“The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.”
— Jane Jacobs (via boenau, urbnist)
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Kirschenblatt-Gimblett on performing the city and...
“Michel de Certeu’s distinction between the strategic and the tactical deifnes the difference between urban planning and the urban vernacular. It is not by accident that design projects design themselves master plan og strategic plan. Think of the vernacular as the opposite: not a master plan, but a local improvisation; not a strategic plan, but a tactical strike. (…) “The performance itself...
Forget about history - organs without bodies
“One often hears that to understand a work of art one needs to know its historical context. Against this historicist commonplace, a Deleuzian counter-claim would be not only that too much of a historical context can blur the proper contact with the work (i.e., that to enact this contact one should abstract from the work’s context), but also that it is, rather, the work of art itself that provides...
Empiricism as the object of an encounter
“Empiricism is by no means a reaction against concepts, nor a simple appeal to lived experience. On the contrary, it undertakes the most insane creation of concepts ever seen or heard. Empiricism is a mysticism and a mathematicism of concepts, but precisely one which treats the concept as object of an encounter, as a here-and-now…from which emerge inexhaustibly ever new differently distributed...
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The city as a theater of social action
“The city fosters art and is art; the city creates the theater and is the theater. It is in the city, the city as theater, that man’s more purposive activities are focused … the physical organization of the city may … through the deliberate efforts of art, politics and education, make the drama more richly significant, as a stage-set, well-designed, intensifies and...
January 2012
30 posts
Time Immemorial.: The totality in which a thinking... →
timeimmemorial:
The totality in which a thinking being is situated is not a pure and simple addition of beings, but the addition of beings who do not make up one number with one another. This is the whole originality of society. The simultaneity of participation and non-participation is precisely an existence…
Lyotard on the sublime
“Sublimity is no longer in art, but in speculation on art.”
— Jean-François Lyotard, “The Sublime and the Avant-Garde,” trans. Lisa Liebmann, Geoffrey Bennington and Marian Hobson, The Inhuman (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991) 106.
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The Camp Is the World: Connecting the Occupy... →
” Rather than reproducing the logic of the traditional “sit-in,” these occupations quickly turned to the construction of miniature models of the society that the movement wanted to create — prefiguring the world while simultaneously creating it. The territory occupied was geographic, but only so as to open other ways of doing and being together. It is not the specific place that is the...
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Ekumenopolis - A film on urban development in... →
Synopsis
“The neoliberal transformation that swept through the world economy during the 1980’s, and along with it the globalization process that picked up speed, brought with it a deep transformation in cities all over the world. For this new finance-centered economic structure, urban land became a tool for capital accumulation, which had deep effects on major cities of developing...
Roland Barthes on the contract
“[W]hat am I to count on in the other’s desire, in what I am for him? The contract eliminates this confusion: it is in fact the only position which the subject can assume without falling into two inverse but equally abhorred images: that of the ‘egoist’ (who demands without caring that he has nothing to give) and that of the ‘saint’ (who gives but forbids himself ever to demand): thus the...
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