Monthly Archives: December 2012

alterity, contagion

Posted on December 30, 2012 by edmundberger

CONTAMINANTS In a temple deep in Cambodia, enshrouded in the deep jungles along the Nung River, is Willard’s target, Col. Walter E. Kurtz. Once a decorated warrior in the command of the U.S. Army Special Forces, Kurtz has ‘gone native,’ … Continue reading →

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pierre clastres on states, ethnocide

Posted on December 30, 2012 by edmundberger

The following comes from Pierre Clastres, Archeology of Violence, Semiotext(e), 2010 (originally published in 1980 as Recherches d’anthropologie Politique) [Clastres: French anthropologist, student of stateless societies] pg. 103 – “Ethnocide is […] the systematic destruction of ways of living and thinking of … Continue reading →

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mechanics of discipline

Posted on December 28, 2012 by edmundberger

Foucault, genealogist of power, unearthing discipline’s roots. What is discipline? It is the act of making the body itself docile: making it productive, using it to produce profit for moneyed exploitation. How does discipline go about making bodies docile? distributing … Continue reading →

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changes

Posted on December 27, 2012 by edmundberger

What silent desert are the two Situationist cowboys crossing? It brings to mind Baudrillard’s now-famous description of the essence of our time:v”the desert of the real” (and for good reason, too – Baudrillard himself exists in the Situationist current, stretching … Continue reading →

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