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- 2012
- Feb2120Roberto Esposito and Jean-Luc Nancy: "Dialogue on the Philosophy to come" (2010)“What we are dealing with here is really space. For more than forty years now ...”141211Nietzsche on socialism and the principle of equality“Socialism ― or the tyranny of the meanest and the most brainless, ―that is to ...”090502W.H. Auden’s Obiter Dicta“A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. ☛ W.H. Auden The Life of ...”01Brian Phillips on the epic Grand Slam match between Nadal and Djokovic“What I realized during this Australian Open is that Nadal sets the tone for this ...”
- Jan28191816151409Kafka's Aphorisms: Believing in progress“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. That ...”01
- 2011
- Dec313029Blanchot on the analogy between writing and suicide“Writers fall into the same trap as do suicide victims except that instead of taking ...”2623171514121105
- Nov29Occupy Wall Street and Black Friday“A record 226 million shoppers visited stores and websites over Black Friday weekend, up from ...”27Living in vain: Maupassant (1888) and Céline (1932)“The doctor was on the point of turning into the second-class saloon, when he remembered ...”242319Woody Allen: A Documentary (PBS, Nov. 2011)“ ☛ Woody Allen: A Documentary by Robert Weide for the American Masters Series, PBS. Flash ...”16090705
- Oct3128"The indifference of trees to the historical moment" by Jean Baudrillard“The indifference of trees to the historical moment. The indifference of dreams to interpretation. The ...”21201915Balzac on equality between human beings (La Duchesse de Langeais, 1834)“The common sense of the masses never deserts them until demagogues stir them up to ...”10"So please, don't tell me about revolutions", A Fistful of Dynamite by Sergio Leone, 1971“The revolution!? Don't try to tell me about the revolution! I know all about the ...”080602
- Sep30"The most important things are done through tubes" by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1775-1776)“The most important things are done through tubes. Proof: genitals, pens, and guns. ☛ Sudelbücher by ...”25231918About winning and losing: The Hustler by Robert Rossen, 1961“BERT―Eddie, you're a born loser. EDDIE―What's that supposed to mean? BERT―First time in ten years I ever ...”17Feeling threatened: community, security and politics in the post 9/11 era“However one may evaluate the ambivalent reception of the new terror by its Western addressees, ...”141312"Federer as Religious Experience" by David Foster Wallace, August 20, 2006“The thing with Federer is that he’s Mozart and Metallica at the same time, and ...”11"The Confronted Community" by Jean-Luc Nancy, 2001“At this point, I will conclude by returning to the event that is spreading across ...”090806050403
- Aug292723211702
- Jul30252320171513121109The more the better: celebrity intellectuals and the marketing of theory“On the other hand, I find particularly disturbing this growing trend of forgetting that media ...”0704Cars 2, Transformers: summer jokes about Intelligent Design“This weekend Cars 2 opens. It will be the first Pixar movie I make a ...”0302
- Jun30Georges Bataille: "L'informe" ("Formless") 1929“A dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words, but their tasks. ...”27"My Speech To the Graduates" by Woody Allen (1979)“More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads ...”2217Terrence Malick's alleged instructions to projectionists“Project the film in its proper 1.85:1 aspect ratio. The correct fader setting on Dolby and ...”11The Filter Bubble and the personalization of the web experience“To truly understand whether personalization is a threat or a blessing, we need a more ...”10090807On Democracy: Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Zizek““This, then, my friend,” said I, “is the fine and vigorous root from which tyranny ...”06050403
- May31La manoeuvre du langage / The Handling of Language (Paul Valéry, 1932)“La syntaxe est une faculté de l'âme. * On a trop réduit la connaissance de la langue ...”3029Nietzsche and friends: "Among Friends" (1886)“1. Fine, with one another silent, Finer, with one another laughing Under heaven's silky cloth Leaning over books and ...”272625Metaphors, terrorism and violent crimes“Public discourse about crime is saturated with metaphor. Increases in the prevalence of crime are ...”242322Different views about the relation between actions and ideas“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how ...”21191817"Loughner's Mental Competence Is Doubted" (The Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2011)“Two federal court filings Monday in the criminal case of the man accused in the ...”16Philip K. Dick: "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" ([1978] 1985)“It was always my hope, in writing novels and stories which asked the question "What ...”15"The Century of Disasters" (Slate, May 13, 2011)“e need to keep things in perspective: The apparent onslaught of disasters doesn't portend the ...”13Nietzsche: God, activity and boredom“Spirit and boredom.— The saying “The Magyar is much too lazy to feel bored" is ...”11"Guns on Campus Nears Reality in Texas" (Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2011)“It appears that collegians in Texas soon will be able to pack heat on campus. The ...”09080706050402
- Apr292321On Revolt: Kropotkin, Camus, Bataille, Arendt, Žižek“The anxious expectation that nothing will happen, that capitalism will go on indefinitely, the desperate ...”2012 Years Ago: The Columbine High School Shootings“On this side and that of the gaping hole of the world, hollowed out in ...”19"The Half-Life of Disater" by Brian Massumi (April 2011)“Natural disaster and terrorism define the poles of disaster. In between stretches a continuum of ...”16Franzen, Wallace, Islands and Solitude“Instead of the news, my news. Instead of a single football game, the splintering of ...”04"Cyberpositive" by Sadie Plant and Nick Land, 1994“Catastrophe is the past coming apart. Anastrophe is the future coming together. Seen from within ...”0302Giorgio Agamben, Bartleby and The Book of Muhammad's Ladder“Along with the throne Our Lord God created a writing table as large as the ...”
- Mar211614Status of Japanese Nuclear Plants: Facts and Resources [2]“Here are some more resources and updates (as of March 14, 2011, 0700PM EST) about ...”13Status of Japanese Nuclear Plants: Facts and Resources“Any kind of major catastrophe, be it human or natural, is likely to induce an ...”110908"Technik Comes to America" by Eric Schatzberg (2006)“Despite these pathbreaking histories of the discourse of technology, a central question remains unanswered: Precisely ...”07"The Ashtray: The Ultimatum (Part 1)" by Errol Morris“The conversation took a turn for the ugly. Were my problems with him, or were ...”04Evgeny Morozov's genealogy of the word "technology"“A digression into the linguistic history of technology and Technik is in order. (This history ...”0302"Erik Spiekermann. Putting Back the Face into Typeface" (Gestalten.tv, 2011)“ ☛ Gestalten.tv: "Erik Spiekermann. Putting Back the Face into Typeface", 13'03", February 1st, 2011. Flash ...”01"The Limits of Control" by William S. Burroughs (1978) and The Ship Metaphor“Consider a control situation: ten people in a lifeboat. two armed self-appointed leaders force the ...”
- Feb28On Critique [1]“I had an interesting conversation yesterday with Alexander Reid, Associate Professor at the University at ...”2726Tumblr To Wordpress: A New Exporter By WooThemes“Tumblr's users who wish to move their content over to a self-hosted Wordpress blog now ...”1614Errol Morris and Thomas Kuhn: "The Intentional Ashtray Throwing Incident"“So I started arguing with him about this inherent contradiction: being an historian of science ...”Heidegger: On The Essence of Truth (1930)“Our topic is the essence of truth. The question regarding the essence of truth is ...”E. M. Cioran: Love, lost and hairdressers“Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a ...”13Heidegger on the way we use the word 'science' these days“As we use the word science these days, it means something essentially different from the ...”04Malcolm Gladwell, media and revolution“When Mao famously said that power springs from the barrel of a gun, it was ...”Aphelis to RSS Subscribers“A bunch of you is reading this blog through its RSS feed. That's what I ...”03Heidegger, McLuhan and Technology“Heidegger sensed that the language machine belongs to our destiny. What did he mean when ...”01The Port-Royal Logic: "Of ideas of things and signs"“WHEN we consider an object in itself, and in its own nature, without extending the ...”
- Jan313028"Insanity" as a legal term in the United-States“That word, of course, is “insanity.” I am sure it would come as no surprise ...”26252422Albert Camus' Banquet Speech“Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will ...”2019Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Conloquium” (1999): living together, dying apart“Ce travail de pensée c'est imposé par un motif terrible, que l'histoire de notre siècle ...”181716Marlowe and the librarian (The Big Sleep, 1946)“LIBRARIAN―You know, you don't look like a man who would be interested in first editions. MARLOWE―I ...”15WikiLeaks, Information and Diffusion“In an attempt to analyze the whole WikiLeaks phenomena, some have turned to an iconic ...”10Peter Sloterdijk and the specificities of modern terrorism“The 20th century will be remembered as the age whose essential thought consisted in targeting ...”01
- 2010
- Dec
- Nov28262524Richard P. Bentall: "A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder", 1992“It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in ...”23221918Georges Didi-Huberman: "L'image brûle" / "The Image Burns" (2004)“En cela, donc, l'image brûle. Elle brûle du réel dont elle s'est, à un moment, ...”17The Onion: "Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks"“WASHINGTON—A group of leading historians held a press conference Monday at the National Geographic Society ...”16151413HyperCities“☛ HyperCities: Todd Presner (founder), project started in 2002HyperCities is a collaborative research and educational ...”1211100908070504030201
- Oct3130Banksy: Selling Out Dissent“You are accused by the graffiti community of selling them out? How do you plead? 'It's ...”292725Chris Beckman: "oops", 2009“☛ Chris Beckman: "oops", appropriated digital video, 2009 (All clips culled from YouTube; protected under ...”24222113
- Jul
- Jun24Roberto Esposito: Communitas (1998) [2]“Therefore the community cannot be thought of as abody, as a corporation in which individuals ...”Roberto Esposito: Communitas (1998) [1]“From here it emerges that communitas is the totality of persons united not by “property” ...”21Quintilian on False Definitions“In his Institutes of oratory: or, Education of an orator. In twelve books Quintilian argues ...”07Going Postal ? Robin Parks“What do we know about ourselves and how do we know it? Allegedly, Robin Parks was ...”05Tumblr and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)“I've been using a Tumblr account for a year and a half now. Recently I ...”03Mass Murder : Assumptions and Speculations“Regarding the recent Cumbria shootings (involving taxi driver Derrick Bird): The study of those who murder ...”01Running Amok / Runaway“Just a thought : is running amok strictly an individual feedback runaway? Or is it a ...”
- May
- Apr19Un rapport catastrophique (à la technique)“S'instaure alors un rapport ― ou plutôt un non-rapport ― que je crois catastrophique. Et ...”
- Mar
- Feb06Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides (Derrida, 2001)“This is the first, indisputable effect of what occured (whether it was calculated, well calculated, ...”
- Jan31Calendrier et société“Un nous est toujours constitué par une calendarité et une cardinalité. Pour que nous puissions ...”27
- 2009
- Nov
- Sep24Paradise Found. Possibility and fullfilment in the age of the surrogate“Without question, the most socially and economically significant technological event of the last quarter-century has ...”
- May10Herzog's Lost Pingouin“ Source : Encounters At The End Of The World, Werner Herzog, 2007 Can pingouins feel anxiety? ...”
- Mar14Fear of Death / Peur de la mort“For we indeed do not at all essentially partake of being; but every mortal nature, ...”
- Feb01Gabriel Matzneff – De la rupture“Que vous rompiez avec votre maîtresse ou qu'elle vous quitte; que vous demandiez le divorce ...”
- Jan12Cioran – Fascination pour l'échec“Le désert intérieur n'est pas toujours voué à la stérilité. La lucidité, face au vide ...”Cioran – Apprendre à être perdant“Une seule chose importe : apprendre à être perdant / Only one thing matters. Learning ...”10
- 2008
- Dec30À quoi mesurer la sagesse“L'augmentation de la sagesse peut se mesurer avec précision à la dominution de fiel. — NIETZSCHE, ...”21Johnny Kelly «Procrastination» (2007)“ – KELLY, Johnny (2007). Procrastination, graduation film for MA in animation at the Royal College ...”
- Nov2826Lost In Space – A Tool Bag Misfortune“ HOUSTON (AP) - Flight controllers were revamping plans Wednesday for the remaining spacewalks planned during ...”252319161511Solastalgia – The desolation of home“War, overpopulation and climate change are likely to be drivers of nostalgia as a serious ...”10
- Aug
- Jul22201615Baudrillard – L'événement singulier“Exceptionnel dans le domaine de la Raison suffisante, mais d'une nécessité et d'une logique implacable ...”Baudrillard – No aphrodisiac like innocence“ There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. – BAUDRILLARD, Jean (1987). Cool Memories. 1980-1985, éd. Galilée, Paris, pp. 231. ”14Baudrillard – Sublime indifférence“Car la différence est belle, mais l'indifférence est sublime. – BAUDRILLARD, Jean (1987). Cool Memories. 1980-1985, éd. ...”07Lose – Online Etymology Dictionary“O.E.losian "be lost, perish," from los "destruction, loss," from P.Gmc. *lausa (cf. O.N. los "the breaking up ...”Robert Musil – Moosbrugger“C'était nettement de la folie, et tout aussi nettement pourtant une simple déformation des rapports ...”06Stefan Zweig – Der Amokläufer“– D'ailleurs, attendez... peut-être, malgré tout, pourrais-je encore vous faire comprendre... Savez-vous ce que c'est ...”04Iron Maiden: Man On The Edge“ A briefcase, a lunch and a man on the edge Each step gets closer to losing ...”
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