Archive for August, 2012
A few weeks ago there were some strange convergences – reading Nick Land’s comments on violent feminism, Deleuze and Guattari’s becoming-girl (celebrated by Cederstrom and Fleming at the end of their Dead Man Working) and most recently Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young Girl. Suddenly there were all these concurrences of the […]
Filed under: Deleuze, feminism, gender, politics | 3 Comments
Tags: becoming girl, haraway, Irigaray, Julian Assange, metroid, nick land, Nina Power, Paranorman, radical feminism, Sadie Plant, Samus Aran, wikileaks, witchcraft
There will be spoilers! Besides the shadow of the Aurora shooting as well as the ridiculous comments from Romney’s camp that Bane was somehow riffing on Bain capital (suggesting that the Romney camp is incapable of a two second wikipedia search to note when Bane was created) most of the talk around the Dark Knight […]
Filed under: Badiou, comic books/graphic novels, politics | 1 Comment
Tags: batman, charlie jane anders, christopher nolan, dark knight rises, mark fisher, OWS
JJ Cohen has addressed some related issues here. Another story which came out the same time as this piece about ecological damage leading to epidemics. Spinoza is amenable to ecology because his nature is a collection of things all vying for power, everything is interconnected and equally important. Yet, for the concept of mind, that […]
Filed under: feminism, nature, ontology, politics, Schelling, Speculative Realism | Leave a Comment
Tags: alexander galloway, deleuze, deleuzian politics, Hasana Sharp, line of flight, societies of control
