“The social” is not society understood as the set of material and moral conditions that characterize a form of consolidation. It would appear to be rather the set of means which allow social life to escape material pressures and politico-moral uncertainties; the entire range of methods which make the members of a society relatively safe [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Resonance: A New Image of Communication
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged communism, communization, D&G, deleuze, emergence, lines of flight, lived communism, materialism, micro-politics, negri, schizoanalysis, singularity, war machine on February 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
As the phrase goes, “the communication between two terms generates an independent third.” Resonance isn’t found by plumbing the interiority of two singularities, or even their overlap. (A U B) Rather, resonance is an external force in-between singularities that incites forms of content and expression. Dominic Smith’s response article to Badiou’s Clamour of Being is an [...]
Empire’s Form
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged empire, Tiqqun on February 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
66: Empire does not confront us like a subject, facing us, but like an environment that is hostile to us.
Forms-of-Life
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged badiou, bergson, body, D&G, deleuze, difference, essentialism, feminism, forms-of-life, hylomorphism, kant, leibniz, materialism, micro-politics, simondon, spivak, subjectivity on February 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »
What is the reasoning, perceptive, ‘singing’ monad that is only in the passions, affection, and perceptions that it expresses? Claire Colebrook suggests it’s a queer passive vitalism. Consider this: In concrete terms, we might begin by thinking of gender. Active vitalism, at least in the form that Deleuze and Guattari trace back to Kant, regards [...]
A Million Apologies
Posted in Ideas, tagged foucault, law, micro-fascism, nomos, sovereignty, state, war machine on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry for the extended absence. I was facing a potentially serious legal/disciplinary situation. I’ll have some musings on it once it has passed completely. A tiny morsel: Not a single day passed when I didn’t think of Foucault’s article “About the concept of the dangerous individual in 19th century legal psychiatry” and the incitement to [...]
