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Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life We’re about to begin teaching again and as usual I have a 2nd year class on Existentialism. This helps get us into the mood..
View ArticleWe Have Begun… FREE THE TARNAC 9 – A statement of support by Giorgio Agamben
This is from Semiotext, via Fark Yaralar? = Scars of Différance. It is in reference to the arrest of people in France on ‘terrorist’ charges, notably of Julien Coupat from Tiqqun. The Tiqqun book, a...
View ArticleLets all get erased from Facebook!
from: andres manniste I was looking at my list of Facebook contacts and it is Thierry Geoffroy who impresses me the most because he is almost halfway to being eliminated by the facebook robot...
View ArticleWelcome to the Civil War – Tarnac9 update
Websites with information on the Tarnac9: the US support committee – http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/ the main French support site – http://www.soutien11novembre.org/ fragments from ‘Introduction to Civil...
View ArticleStudents in struggle
A good example to students all across the world – I encourage my own students to consider such Direct Action when faced with the increasing attempts to commercialise and commodify education and culture...
View ArticleTarnac 9 make the Bartleby move
Confronted by an ever more absurd state power, we shall speak no more LE MONDE | 16.03.09 bwo Multitudes-infos list/ Frederic Neyrat bwo the nettime list / trans Patrice Riemens For four month now, the...
View Article‘an active line on a walk’ (The Fold – reading notes #2)
Chapter 2 of F begins, if possible, even more obscurely than Chapter 1. The first line of F, Chapter 1, is ‘The Baroque refers not to an essence but rather to an operative function, to a trait’ (F:3)....
View ArticleDiamond time, daimon time.
In the instant of diamond time duration incarnates and shatters itself. Many types of duration must exist, this seems to be true almost ‘by definition’. Duration is, after all, a multiplicity. Yet the...
View ArticleInterview about Rhizomatic #1
I was recently interview via email about the film I made a decade or so ago about an anarchist arts-activist squat. The documentary is available in various places, it was published in the Deleuzian...
View ArticleKnower-known relations (alien and intimate knowledge)
The problem of access that is central to the critique of correlationism depends on the epistemological gap between knower and known. This gap, almost inherent to and therefore inevitably inextricable...
View Articleteaching the machine
teaching the machine There’s this peculiar video that’s on YouTube at the moment, an excellent example of contemporary pedagogy in many ways, called ‘The machine is Us/ing Us’. It’s gathered nearly 2...
View ArticleUrbanomic
The new issue of the excellent journal (indeed perhaps the best philosophical journal around at the moment) out soon … Technorati Tags: urbanomic , deleuze , philosophy Urbanomic
View ArticlePictures from the Collegium trip to Italy
The first pic is from inside the Collegiums’ lecture space (the Academia Illuminati if I remember right), the second from the black heart of the fantastic Burri exhibit that is in Citta and the third...
View ArticleATP reading notes 5 – the three types of strata
Picking up the 3rd chapter, the ‘geology of Morals’, from roughly midway through (from the paragraph that begins “Most of the audience had left…” – ATP:57) we find a typology of strata being outlined....
View ArticleATP reading notes 6 – first two postulates of linguistics
The postulates of linguistics (Chapter 4) have sub-headings that at first sight are a little confusing. To begin with, all four of the postulates have sub-headings in quotation marks, which immediately...
View ArticlePlato and Deleuze
I’ve just started a new course at the Free University Brighton looking at Plato and Deleuze. Here’s the course outline and the first lecture. If you want to join in you’re welcome to join my Discord if...
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