Writing an academic book today is like whispering to yourself in the woods. Given the advent of the internet, our general condition is now characterized by having too much information rather than too little. Academic writing risks just adding one more book to a stack that almost nobody has the time to read, or at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tiqqun’
Alchemy of the Example
Posted in dissertation, tagged affect, Agamben, bergson, D&G, deleuze, emergence, marx, marxism, materialism, micro-politics, nietzsche, power, singularity, the example, Tiqqun on March 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
empire ain’t a thing
Posted in Ideas, tagged anarchism, communism, communization, D&G, empire, materialism, micro-politics, politics, Tiqqun, war machine on March 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
“An international ecumenical org does not process from an imperial center that imposes itself upon and homogenizes an exterior milieu; neither is it reducible to relations between St8s, for example (the League of nations, the United Nations). On the contrary, it constitutes an intermediate milieu between the different coexistent orders. Therefore it is not exclusively [...]
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.
PhD Exam Reading List
Posted in Ideas, tagged Agamben, althusser, anarchism, capitalism, communism, communization, D&G, deleuze, emergence, empire, foucault, guattari, lived communism, marx, marxism, materialism, micro-politics, Nancy, negri, neo-liberalism, nietzsche, politics, psychoanalysis, ranciere, schizoanalysis, singularity, sovereignty, spinoza, spivak, state, subjectivity, Tiqqun, war machine on December 15, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Area 1: Non-linear Historical Materialism
Foucault’s Subjectivities Against Neo-Liberalism (Philosophical Anthropology?)
Posted in Ideas, tagged anarchism, foucault, subjectivity, Tiqqun on December 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I listened to the recent Miguel de Beistgui lecture on neo-liberalism and subjectivity, part of a conference held by Kingston University entitled “The Government of Self and Others: On Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982/3″. The lecture was good, concise, and was strong where I think it counts: philosophy and politics. For me, [...]
Jünger: Total Mobilization
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged junger, politics, state, Tiqqun, war machine on December 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I was completely shocked when I couldn’t find a copy of “Total Mobilization” online. Not only is Jünger considered a central figure to 20C European literature but his influence in German philosophy is unavoidable. ”Total Mobilization” in particular serves as a concise statement of Jünger’s heroic style, the essential core to his conservative politics of [...]
The Benefits of Tiqqun
Posted in Ideas, tagged activism, anarchism, Tiqqun on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Over at Nate’s blog, we’ve been having an ongoing conversation about Tiqqun. It’s blossomed and so I’ve decided to repost some of my comment here. A short description I’ve come up for the Tiqqun project (in very wooden marxist language): a attempt to construct a metaphysics for a mode of production capable of overtaking the [...]
