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Speculative Realism (Annex to Collapse II)
Speculative Realism: A One-Day Workshop took place on 27 April 2007 at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, co-sponsored by Collapse. Rather than announcing the advent of a new theoretical ‘doctrine’ or ‘school’, the event conjoined four ambitious philosophical projects – all of which boldly problematise the subjectivistic and anthropocentric foundations of much of ‘continental philosophy’ while differing significantly in their respective strategies for superseding them.
G. Harman - The Road to Objects
"Turning to space, one thing we know is that space cannot be located entirely within the sensual realm. John Locke noted that our experience of space is in some way an illusion. Everything in experience itself is ?at and equidistant, as seen from the fact that babies reach with equal con?dence for nearby toys, distant doorways, and the moon. Space is not directly accessible to our senses, but inferred, and this skill must be acquired at a speci?c point in child development. Despite what Leibniz claims, space is not the realm of relation, but of both relation and non-relation.
G. Harman - Networks and Assemblages: The Rebirth of Things in Latour and DeLanda
"Bruno Latour and Manuel DeLanda are not entirely unknown to contemporary philosophy. [...] Both authors have large international followings and can safely be described as “famous,” though I have sometimes had to explain their identities to friends otherwise familiar with the latest philosophical trends. Yet even for those who do know their books, Latour and DeLanda are usually regarded as interesting figures who lie somewhere near the fringes of current debate. Neither of them currently leads anything like a school of international philosophy, though others of their generation already do.
Projection -- Lorraine Daston
"Although the concept of “projection” is ubiquitous in psychology, political theory, anthropology, sociology, and, thanks to the popularization of psychoanalysis, in colloquial conversation, it is not an obvious choice for a historian of science like myself. Yet I hope to show that the concept of “projection” cannot be fully understood – neither its history nor its hold on modern thought – without recourse to the history of science. This claim has both a specific and a general aspect.
The End of Oslo by Judith Butler (LRB)
Among the many astonishing claims that Barack Obama made in his recent speech opposing the Palestinian bid for statehood was that ‘peace will not come through statements and resolutions.’ This is, at best, an odd thing to say for a president whose ascendancy to power itself depended on the compelling use of rhetoric. Indeed, his argument against the power of statements and resolutions at the United Nations to achieve peace was a rhetorical ploy that sought to minimise the power of rhetorical ploys.
Christoph Keller - Experiment on the Forensic Significance of Hypnosis
Christoph Keller will elaborate on some of his works in the context of the relation of art, research and sciences and present a kitchen table analysis of a German science film on Hypnosis from 1936 that reemerged from from a lake bed in Berlin after lying there since 1945.
Attached are:
- a short bio;
- "Archives as objects...", text-image montage;
- "Cloudbuster project", text with Sharon Ben-Joseph;
- "Aether" exhibition at centre pompidou poster and reader.
Derek Gregory - “Doors into Nowhere”: Dead Cities and the Natural History of Destruction
Friedrich (2002/2006) elects to begin his account of the air war on the ground in Germany, but I hope these last pages have shown that it is also necessary to take the measure of the ground in Britain—in its conventional, geographical sense and in the sense of a conceptual order—where German cities were busily being transformed into targets. The bomber stream was the advancing edge of a process of abstraction that reached right back to that exhibition of a Lancaster and its payload in Trafalgar Square, which represented bombing as a domain of pure objects (aircraft and bombs).
Derek Gregory - Baghdad Burning: neo-liberalism and the counter-city
"The systematic connections between neo-liberalism and late modern war have become something of a critical orthodoxy.
Derek Gregory: The everywhere war
Much of the discussion of 9/11 has debated its historical signi?cance, but it is equally important to explore the geographical dimensions of the wars that have been conducted in its shadows. Subsequent transformations in the American way of war have played a major role in the increased militarisation of the planet. Most attention has been focused on Afghanistan and Iraq as the principal theatres of the ‘war on terror’, but one of the characteristics of late modern war is the emergent, ‘event-ful’ quality of military, paramilitary and terrorist violence that can, in principle, occur anywhere.
Derek Gregory: War and peace
Since the end of the Cold War two modes of ‘new war’ have been distinguished. One, the Revolution in Military Affairs, transforms advanced state militaries (particularly in the global North) through an emphasis on stripped-down, highly specialised forces deploying cutting-edge technology with unprecedented precision. The other is waged by non-state militias and guerrilla forces (particularly in the global South) and relies on light, even improvised weapons, focuses its violence on civilians and is implicated in the criminal circuits of a shadow globalisation.
EXCHANGES: PHD-MA ROUNDTABLE SEMINARS
The Exchanges Seminar Series provide a common forum of discussion between PhD and MA level members of the Centre for Research Architecture. It is designed to enable material and theoretical crossovers and to promote the development of horizontal, autonomous, p2p-based forms of critical pedagogy.
crosspost from: http://www.mara-stream.org
<nettime> An augmented reality drug at the Casoria Contemporary Arts Museum
The CAMMOVIE hosts four sections dedicated to video arts ando contaminations coming from digital cultures. [...]
<nettime> REALITYFLOWHACKED by Paolo Cirio at Aksioma | Project space
*Paolo Cirio* /*REALITYFLOWHACKED*/
*Aksioma | Project space* Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia April 26 -- May 20, 2011
*Tuesday, April 26, 2011* *Artist talk: 6:00 pm* *Exhibition opening: 7:00 pm* [...]
<nettime> new radio product
"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005
Just posted to my radio archive
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April 16, 2011 Joel Schalit, author of this piece, on Israeli identity and the problems with saying that the country may be turning “fascist” • Michael Heaney, co-author of this paper, on how Obama demobilized the antiwar movement • Roger Lowenstein, author of The End of Wall Street, on the financial crisis and its aftermath
it joins:April 9, 2011 Carrie Lane, author of A Company of One, on how unemployed tech workers see themselves (as heroic, self-reliant questers, mostly) • Adolph Reed on the uselessness of TV liberals, the limits of spontaneity in politics, and the sponginess of race as a politlcal and analytical category
March 19, 2011 Abe Sauer, who’s been covering Wisconsin for The Awl, on Walker, the protests, privatization • Steve Early, author ofThe Civil Wars in U.S. Labor, on the fights in & around Andy Stern’s SEIU
March 12, 2011 Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus, on the spurious and destructive fantasy of a link between vaccines and autism • reprise of a 2006 interview with the splendid Robert Fitch, who died on March 4, about his book Solidarity for Sale and the role of corruption in the sad decline of American unions (and a brief memoir of his work)
March 5, 2011 Jodi Dean, keeper of the I Cite blog and author of Blog Theory, interviewed in December on what digital culture is doing to us, returns to tell us how events in Cairo and Madison may have changed her mind • Joel Rogers of the University of Wisconsin on that state and its labor uprising
February 5, 2011 Lance Lochner, author of this NBER paper, on the social returns to education (lower crime, better health) • Vijay Prashad of Trinity College on the Egyptian revolution
January 29, 2011 Mark LeVine of the University of California–Irvine (and author of Heavy Metal Islam) and GIlbert Achcar of SOAS (and author of The Arabs and the Holocaust) talk (separately) about the popular uprisings in the Middle East • Bhaskar Sunkara on the new magazine he edits, Jacobin
January 22, 2011 Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, on what the web is doing to our brains and minds • Robert Fatton, author of Haiti’s Predatory Republic, on Baby Doc’s return, the failure to recover from earthquake, the horrid class system
January 15, 2011 Mark Ames, author of Going Postal and editor of The Exiled, on Tucson and how the U.S. is like a decaying Russia • Jefferson Cowie, author of Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, on the 1970s Doug Henwood Producer, Behind the News Saturdays, 10-11 AM, KPFA, Berkeley 94.1 FM "best music on a show about economics & politics" - Village Voice
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<nettime> Google's Next Mission: Fighting Violent Extremism
<nettime> How Rebels Hijacked Gadhafi's Phone Network (WSJ)
<nettime> n0name Blitz en. #1
Regards,
Dave
Am Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:29:29 +0200 schrieb Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>:
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<nettime> Fw: Darfurnica
From: "Nadia Plesner" <contact at nadiaplesner.com> Date: April 13, 2011 1:27:17 PM GMT+02:00
As some of you might have heard, I am facing a litigation started by Louis Vuitton. [...]
<nettime> n0name Blitz en. #1
If it means anything, reloading Marx can't involve this hero-worshipping Trotsky and his fellow Bolshevik leaders whose government dissolved Russia's 1st elected parliament, ended local democracy, closed down opposition media, imprisoned trade unionists and invaded other people's countries. [...]
<nettime> n0name Blitz en. #1
a english trailer of the documentary here ( 3 min ) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybvsZ7YjBL0
as the arte +7 video is only available in certain countries, here is the German version of the documentary on youtube ( 52 min ) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch? [...]
