Following the 2001 explosion of Tiqqun,* a debate raged. How could Tiqqun be explored by other means? The entanglement of ideas found in previous iterations of the journal describing Tiqqun were dense, almost impenetrable at times. As far as an experiment or an investigation, ‘writing the tiqqun’ made serious interventions – incompleting a whole series [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Get Rid Of Yourself
Posted in Ideas, tagged anarchism, film, invisible committee, Tiqqun, wto on April 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
satire? irony? humor?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The copy of “Invisible Governance” I ILL’d came from the University of Chicago. On the inside cover, a glued sticker reads: The University of Chicago Library Given in honor of His Excellency H. Kamuzu Banda Life President of the Republic of Malawi University of Chicago 1931
ontological communism – self-valorization
Posted in Ideas, tagged communisation, communism, communization, negri, ontology, self-valorization, Tiqqun on April 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
certain brands of post-structuralism scared off most ontological thinking. mapping the path would distract, so i’ll just lay it at the feet of post-sausserian epistemological analysis. recent returns to communism (no doubt partially due to the ground-clearing after the fall of ‘actually exiting socialism’) have begun highlighting the ontological definition of the concept : the [...]
On Strategizing the Dispositif
Posted in Ideas, tagged archaeology, deleuze, dispositif, foucault, genealogy, strata on April 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What replaces the archive of archaeology? Or put another way, what is the philosophical ‘object’ of genealogy? The dispositif. Quoting from my MA thesis: A dispositif, for Foucault, is a heterogeneous system that connects its constituent elements through relations of power and knowledge (Power/Knowledge 194-6). Foucault notes that his method follows the counter-intuitive claim that [...]
Tiqqun Apocrypha Repost
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agamben, eric hazan, Tiqqun on April 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A kind NYC blogger did a quick-dirty translation of the Agamben/Hazan discussion on Tiqqun. It was later taken down. I can’t speak to the quality of the translation, some things are obviously wrong (for instance the translator remarks that FC is male when in fact she is female…). I also do not know why it [...]
New Whatever Singularities
Posted in Ideas, tagged anarchism, communism, luther blissett, whatever singularity, wu ming on April 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I think I may have found Claire Fontaine’s cousin! Wu Ming. They were initially a group that used the Luther Blissett nom de plome to write an anarcho-syndicalist novel and manifesto, later creating a new collective identity to continue their work. Here’s a funny video introduction: For more background info, check out the wiki page [...]
