The openings created by the Maya Prophecies for 2012 mark a political and cultural challenge to the onto-theological metaphysics deeply embedded within European thought that have long blackmailed revolutionary possibilities. In this talk I will briefly interrogate how to crack the thin veneer of vulgar revolution to open a path that makes ‘steps’ toward true [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Laroche’
The Geometry of Revolution
Posted in Ideas, tagged emergence, Laroche, materialism, nomos, politics, revolution, sovereignty, war machine on March 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Nomos and Helen
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged Laroche, nomos on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If money (nomisma), as we are taught in the _Politics_, is “spurious” as an object in itws own right, it is, on the other hand, essential as an instrument of exchange. This last notion is revised in the _Nicomachean Ethics_, and in the conext of a discussion on social justice. Aristotle asks at 5.5.17-20: what [...]
D&R Nomos fn
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged deleuze, Laroche, nomos on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (Repetition in Itself) n6. See E. Laroche, Histoire de la racine nem- en grec ancien, Paris Klicksieck, 1949. Laroche shows that the idea of distribution in nomos-nemo does not stand in a simple relation to that of allocation [temno, diao, diaireo]. The pastoral sense of nemo (to pasture) only belatedly implied [...]
From Nemsis to Autonomy: Nomos in Schmitt and Deleuze & Guattari
Posted in Ideas, tagged Agamben, D&G, Laroche, Nancy, Schmitt, Tiqqun on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
E Laroche wrote a philological study of the family of terms nem- nom- in Greek thought. This document serves as a common reference for studies of distribution, common law, politics, and economics (think NUMerals, NUMbers, ecoNOMy, NEMesis, autoNOMy…). For example, Marc Shell’s book The Economy of Literature use of the study is then picked up by [...]
