May 2012
18 posts
“Aesthetics he always understood in its original sense as sensation. To study...”
– John Durham Peters, “Introduction” in Friedrick Kittler’s Optical Media
“For Wilson, society took a wrong turn when it viewed the ideal role of policing...”
– Mike Konczal, ‘Against Law, For Order’
concrete rules, differences & equivalences...:... →
driftwork:
“Nothing is worse, according to Hegel than compassion in politics. It implies that the gap between the rich and poor is growing. I am fairly much in agreement with him on this point, and I believe that the compassion currently demonstrated by our politicians can often be interpreted as a desire…
““Many entrepreneurs hold the opinion that “I did it all on my own,” which...”
– Epicurean Dealmaker, “Occupy Galt’s Gulch”
“We face a situation which seems neither to have been contemplated in either the...”
– Edward Hugh, “Global Growth is Slowing”
“[…faced with a robot insurrection…]
Domin: And do you really think...”
– Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. (1920): post-humanism merges with post-capitalism
“NPR reported this morning on a traffic jam in California caused by an...”
– glitch jam – mammoth // building nothing out of something (via new-aesthetic)
“It is reasonable to expect that the net result of these trends will be a...”
– BIS, “Technology Trends in the Financial Markets: A 2020 Vision”
“The left, historically, has always looked to the trade unions and the factory...”
– David Harvey, Urban Revolution is Coming
La Partita Imaginaria: Quote from 'Woland' →
partitaimaginaria:
“The content of the revolution that is born in each historical period, including that of the current period of restructuring which, by its very nature, can never be consummately restructured, is prefigured in the day- to-day proletarian struggles.
This is because struggles are a constitutive the…
April 2012
17 posts
Images From the Future: The Indignity of Speaking... →
imagesfromthefuture:
Recent discussion of ‘Laurie Penny gate’ has raised issues about questions of voice and agency in social movements. It seems to me that (not all, but) a lot of issues people are raising with Penny as a journalist have less to do with her individual actions and far more to do with what Deleuze…
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Abstraction in the Particular
The social scientific tendency to look at everyday events and see political implications in them is the direct counterpart to the natural scientific tendency to look at everyday events and see physical implications in them. A movie, a way of speaking, a behaviour - they are never *just* individual decisions or innocent gestures unrelated to the wider political context. They always have abstract...
“There are some in law enforcement who are interested in doing more than just...”
– The future of social control. (via Ars Technica)
By Strategy: 12 Articles On The Boat Race... →
by-strategy:
Article by Trenton Oldfield on Comment Is Free entitled “Why I Interrupted The Boat Race”, sub-title “The elite have brought the country to its knees, now is the time to take action”.
Article by Dan Hodges saying this is precisely why Labour must embrace austerity, least they be seen as lone…
March 2012
11 posts
Commonplaces: On Police Strikes →
piercepenniless:
Some very quick thoughts on this article, here because I don’t have time to work them up into a full response:
(i) I’m willing to believe it’s highlighted because of the subbing, but the locution ‘as an activist’ is unpleasant for a number of reasons, like trading on credentials that presume…
Seeing Nature
The aim of this chapter is to explore the emergence and integration of climate modelling into the fabric of world politics. It will be argued that in the face of the complex system that is the climate, only technologically extended forms of cognition are capable of representing it and reacting to changes in the system. The first section will examine the nature of the complexity in this system. The...
“In Foucault’s time one of the greatest dangers lay in the radical left...”
– On the uses of the word ‘fascism’ - Mitchell Dean, Governmentality, 2nd Edition, p. 8
An Ethnography of Deleting: In search of the right... →
hautepop:
Daniel Neyland (Management School, Lancaster University) UCL Science & Technology studies seminar Monday 5 March, 2012 - 17:00
Deletion appears to be a routine, taken for granted aspect of our everyday lives. However, despite numerous studies of the ‘everyday,’ little close social science scrutiny has been given to the nature of deletion. What does it mean to press delete? What...
February 2012
24 posts
The Crisis of the Early 21st C. Marxian... →
driftwork:
Link to the Gerard Dumenil and Domininique Levy pdf …
“That capitalism underwent a new structural crisis about three decades after the crisis of the 1970s, under circumstances evocative of the Great Depression, raised numerous interrogations. The purpose of the present study is to summarize our own interpretation, and discuss a set of other analyses of Marxian inspiration. Marxist...
Oil Price in € (Brent) Chart
alea:
“The limited evidence that does exist on workfare indicates that:
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There is...”
– Department for Work and Pensions Research Report No 533 A comparative review of workfare programmes in the United States, Canada and Australia
Richard Crisp and Del Roy Fletcher
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2007-2008/rrep533.pdf
(via vindicatrix)
Special People - Ch.4 of Everything Is Obvious by... →
hautepop:
A clear and convincing take-down of the notion that (a) influencers exist, and (b) marketing at them is worth doing.
To summarise the key points:
1. Six degrees of separation does in fact exist - but it doesn’t work the way most people think it does. When we imagine these chains we assume they must work through celebrities, leaders, & other social connectors - whereas in fact...