Kant’s Critique of Impractical Garters
On this occasion, whilst illustrating Kant’s notions of the animal economy, it may be as well to add one other particular, which is, that for fear of obstructing the circulation of the blood, he never would wear garters; yet, as he found it difficult to keep up his stockings without them, he had invented for […]
Michel Foucault 1984-2014: meditation on death
What gives the meditation on death its particular value is not just that it anticipates what opinion generally represents as the greatest misfortune; it is not just that it enables one to convince oneself that death is not evil; rather, it offers the possibility of looking back, in advance so to speak, on one’s life. […]
Posthumanism: Sloterdijk and the problem of political synthesis
☛ La Maison Française, New York University: Robert Silvers, New York City, early 1980s, from the exhibition “Dominique Nabokov: The World of the New York Review of Books”, Friday, November 1st – Friday, December 6th, 2013. Catalogue: PDF. Press release: PDF. For more details about the photo, see the end of this post. • • […]
Grégoire Chamayou: bodies, manhunts and drones
☛ Théorie du drone by Grégoire Chamayou, Paris: La fabrique, 2013. Image retrieved from Geographical Imaginations. Grégoire Chamayou’s book Théorie du drone was released in April 2013. The timing was appropriate. A month later, in May 2013, the United States government acknowledged the killing of four American citizens in drone strikes. Two months later, in […]
