Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Hasana Sharp’s Spinzoa and the Politics of Renaturalization is an interesting book which has quite a bit to offer discussions on posthumanism, affect, and the relationship between politics and metaphysics. While I found the first half of her book very interesting (and not for totally unbiased reasons given its discussions of nature) I felt that […]
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Tags: Hasana Sharp, politics, Renaturalization, reza negarestani, Schelling, spinoza, spinoza and the politics of renaturalization
Alas, Gender…pt. 2
If sexual difference has been relegated to symbolic functions, and to speech in particular, how is the masculine to survive, as exceptional in the above formulation, without simply resorting to a flaccid internalization as it seems to have done in the figure of the dumb husband? To connect this to the cultural (and to a […]
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Tags: feminism, madmen, madonna/whore, politics, sarah palin
Let us make a decision – cut one half of the vicious fluid from the other – for our purposes slime is an organic substance and is different from waste in that waste is what the organic sheds to shed whereas slime harbors a stronger claim to the core of the organism – it’s functions […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, comic books/graphic novels, Freud, Lacan, marxism, politics, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, Zizek | 3 Comments
Tags: hardt, marxism, negri, politics, pollution, ray brassier, slime, Speculative Realism, Zizek