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 →
