A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

. My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity...

. Then I was reading about Jean-Luc Nancy, apparently he had a heart transplant 10 years ago, and when his body was rejecting the foreig...

. I have the feeling that affects don’t exist, that affects are just emotions viewed through the distorting lens of critical distance. ...

. I am really not trying to be cynical. Actually I think the dilemma to some degree flows from the very nature of politics. One thing t...

Two short passages from Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman : The time came for Bill and Grace to enact a kind of divestiture service in whi...

. YouTube is not just video. YouTube exists somewhere between home movies, commercials, video art, diary, b-movies and cinema. Or something ...

. What do we think of the sentiment ‘all art is propaganda’ when placed beside it’s apparent opposite, the idea of ‘art for arts sake.’ But,...

About six monts ago I posted a YouTube play list of 83 videos . In the accompanying commentary I wrote that "what I realize in a wa...

. Lust is reactionary. It is not only that he smiles when he kills. It’s that only when he kills is his smile truly genuine. I hate ...

. Against Virno's 'Post-Fordism is the communism of capital.' we reply 'Neoliberalism is the totalitarianism of capital....

. Neoliberalism is the totalitarianism of capital. .

. To me, capitalism feels like a pure evil corroding the surface of the planet. However, I realize that from this emotional-ideological posi...

. 1. Sentences (some plagiarized, others not) Most blues are subtitled either no sense of wonder or no sense of scale It was like an emotion...

. The relation between fluctuating electronic signals and human attention has become a central component of social experience, from Wall...

. Evolution is a loose, somehow inaccurate metaphor/creation myth that has very little to do with either improvement or survival. Evolut...

. Recent developments in network science demonstrate structure in seemingly random networks. On the web, for example, sites are not equa...

. In that long wave of social conflicts we find a constant and recurring element: the refusal of the subordination of life to work. This...

. Spirit’s “true concern is the negation of reification.” That we make our world is the time-full “truth” that “untruth” most wishes to ...

. I wanted, I desired, to become the Jean Luc Godard of YouTube. Could there actually be a Jean Luc Godard of YouTube? I was in Brussels...

. Negative passions are black holes. In affirmative ethics, the harm you do to others is immediately reflected on the harm you do to you...