February 2012
11 posts
“The current ‘crisis’ is in fact the failure of the capitalist utopia that has...”
– Jacques Ranciere (via zizekianrevolution)
#Foucault “Beneath this apparent veneration of discourse, under this apparent logophilia, a certain fear is hidden. It is just as if prohibitions, thresholds and limits have been set in order to master, at least partially, the great proliferation of discourse in order to remove from its richness it’s most dangerous part.”
Urban affects: Empiricism as the object of an... →
kristinesamson:
“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…
A4rizm: collectivité →
a4rizm:
Il n’y a pas de production sans collectivité. Il n’y a pas de mots sans langage. Il n’y a pas d’art sans production et sans langage. L’art est avant tout cette synthèse. L’art est la construction d’un langage nouveau qui laisse tout d’abord entrevoir un être nouveau ; ensuite, lorsque l’art…
“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of...”
– mark fisher, capitalist realism 2009 (via zizekianrevolution)
Oliver Belcher: Foucault Bibliography →
oliverbelcher:
There are many of Foucault bibliographies floating around, and for years I relied on Richard Lynch’s (now dated, but useful) bibliography of Foucault’s English works through 2008. However, I recently came across this version by Machiel Karsken out of Ramboud University, and it is the…