Tag Archives: Oedipus

Machinic Oedipus, Machinic Multitude

Posted on May 8, 2013 by edmundberger

Every technical practice is a social practice, every technical practice is soaked in social determination. But it doesn’t present itself as such: it claims autonomy, innocence, a technical rationality founded on science. This rationality subtends the ideology of faith, which … Continue reading →

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Guattari’s Oedipus

Posted on May 5, 2013 by edmundberger

Noir Realism has put up a thought-provoking post on Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, describing the work as a “Black Book of Riddles,” a “dreamwork” that doesn’t so much offer a strict revolutionary praxis, but opts instead for an extended poetic … Continue reading →

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Ghosts of Our Pasts: Neoliberal Crisis and Subjectivity (Part 2 of 2)

Posted on April 17, 2013 by edmundberger

Confronted with the fears and pessimism of financial instability, where does the individual turn to fight back? Not to capitalism, the unnameable Thing, for it appears much too large, too complex, for any one individual to rebel against. Maybe then … Continue reading →

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