Monthly Archives: October 2015

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
This evening we discussed the Becoming-Animal plateau in The New Centre seminar on A Thousand Plateaus.  I emphasize that this was a discussion; for there was little textual commentary or close reading.  In many respects, I…

“excerpt from Critical Inquiry: Brown’s tight focus on neoliberalism, while enabling her to place the repercussions of the hegemony of neoliberal reason in stark relief, is also constraining.  It leads her to underplay neoliberalism’s inconsistencies, inefficiencies, contradictions, and violence. She … Continue reading →

http://www.citylightspodcast.com/episodes/RobertScheer043015.mp3 “Nate Cardozo, Electric Frontier Foundation, interviews Robert Scheer to discuss Scheer’s new book, They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy from Public Affairs Books. They Know Everything About You is a … Continue reading →

Originally posted on requiem for certainty:
I have a new piece out today in the wonderfully smart space curated by the good people at ‘The New Inquiry.’  My piece is titled ‘The Algorithm and the Watchtower‘ and in it I…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mathias Schönher, Deleuze, a Split with Foucault, Foucault Blog, October 17, 2015 DOI: 10.13095/uzh.fsw.fb.117) Keywords: deleuze | dispositif | philosophy | power | resistance | revolution | society | television INTRODUCTION There was a point in…

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
A guest post from James Eastwood. James is a PhD candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). This post is partly based on his latest article, ‘”Meaningful Service”: Pedagogy at…

“There is an odd and contingent conjunction of strands dominating the contemporary world. In the first instance, there is the fundamental ungrounding that pervades the world today — that is to say, the collapse of neoliberalism and its attendant hegemony over the … Continue reading →