Roberto 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 we have known that we are living in the epoch of space (Foucault was one of the first to tell us this in the 1960s). More often than not, this epoch of space is juxtaposed against the epoch of history [...]
Peanuts, February 12, 1965
☛ The Complete Peanuts 1965 to 1966 (Vol. 8) by Charles M. Schulz, Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2007, p. 19. The comic strip above was originally published on February 12, 1965. © 2012 United Features Syndicate, Inc
Three takes on the 2011 England Riots: Zygmunt Bauman, Slavoj Žižek and Stuart Hall
These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. […] We are all consumers now, consumers first and foremost, consumers by right and by duty. The day after the 11/9 outrage George W. Bush, when calling Americans to get over the trauma and go back to normal, found no [...]
Nietzsche on socialism and the principle of equality
Socialism ― or the tyranny of the meanest and the most brainless, ―that is to say, the superficial, the envious, and the mummers, brought to its zenith, ―is, as a matter of fact, the logical conclusion of “modern ideas” and their latent anarchy: but in the genial atmosphere of democratic well-being the capacity for forming [...]
NASA releases hi-res restored photographs from the Gemini Program
☛ March To The Moon: photo from the Gemini IV mission depicting astronaut Edward White during NASA’s very first EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity), June 3, 1965, 19:45 GMT, shot with a Zeiss Planar 80mm lens mounted on a Hasselblad 500c 70 mm camera on Kodak Ektachrome film. Photo ID: S65-30431_G04-H. Flash is required to access [...]
