Tag Archives: the body

Diving Into the Beach Beneath the Streets

Posted on December 25, 2013 by edmundberger

Bradley Garrett has posed a radicalization of the (already radical) practice of ‘urban exploration’ – the opening up and diving into the places of the city that are normally excluded from the terrain of our everyday life. For Garrett, urban … Continue reading →

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# PHILOSOPHY /// To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body by Félix Guattari

Posted on August 3, 2013 by edmundberger

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
Félix Guattari as photographed by Olivier Garros Regularly,  I evoke my will to make this blog, non only a (not-so) daily (anymore) platform of expression for my reflective peregrinations, but also an archive of documents…

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Postmodern Passages: The Construction of the Body

Posted on July 6, 2013 by edmundberger

The near-constant refrain at the heart of anti-hegemonic conceptualizations has been the body; as we move from book to book, tome to tome, we can see again and again the resurgence of this discourse: the Cartesian mind-body dualism, Spinoza’s eternal … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Ektos/Modernism’s Delirium (Post I)

Posted on June 25, 2013 by edmundberger

Ektos – Greek: outside, beyond the outside, exterior, outside of beyond, besides, except. “Since the end of the eighteenth century, the life of unreason no longer manifests itself except in the lightning-flash works such as those of Holderin, of Nerval, … Continue reading →

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Traversals in Nomadic Thinking: “Ecopsychoanalysis”

Posted on May 9, 2013 by edmundberger

“A key problem identified by ecopsychology is how to overcome our experiental, academic, and scientifi separation from nature. In so far as the division of mind and body is central for this divide, neuropsychoanalysis deserves to have a place in … Continue reading →

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Brian Massumi on the posthuman

Posted on May 6, 2013 by edmundberger

“Spinoza asks: What can a body do?”1 For a little speculative fun, here’s a potential answer, courtesy of Brian Massumi’s Parables for the Virtual: In the networked dimension… the serial probings, sensitizations, expressions, transductions, relays, and transmission of the body … Continue reading →

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Becoming Machine: Thoughts on Hardt and Negri’s ‘Enigmatic Passages’

Posted on April 13, 2013 by edmundberger

1. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire has been called many things, running the gamut from the alter-globalization movement’s Communist Manifesto to a secret justification for neoliberal capitalism. One thing for sure is that it captures a zeitgeist; between the … 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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