November 2009
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“So we have a new organization of content and expression, each with its own forms and substances: technological content, semiotic or symbolic expression. Content should be understood not simply as the hand and tools but as a technical social machine that preexists them and constitutes states of force or formations of power. Expression should be understood not simply as the face and language, or...
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Blame it on the Tetons
just a collection of my tweets on the issue, with minor editing.
Strange discussions going on re Swiss ban of minarets. Why are all cards always mixed? Do we say things just to say them, or are we earnestly trying to communicate? If it’s the latter, then there is much failure in our midst. For Muslims tweeting about the theological (in)significance of minarets & domes: this...
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“A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put...”
– Existence and Its Contrary
Willard Van Orman Quine
via wildcat2030
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“You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I...”
– Richard Feynman
via myserendipities + wildcat2030
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“Latour’s concept of translation is broader than that of translation as it...”
– Levi Bryant, “Relations of Translation Between Actants.” The production of the new via translation — this is already the point of Whitehead’s theory of prehension. via steveshaviro + wildcat2030
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“What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its...”
– Herbert A. Simon, 1971
via designtumblelog + delayprocrastinate + anin + libraryland + booklover + guerrillamamamedicine
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How to Do Philosophy
“Curiously, however, the works they produced continued to attract new readers. Traditional philosophy occupies a kind of singularity in this respect. If you write in an unclear way about big ideas, you produce something that seems tantalizingly attractive to inexperienced but intellectually ambitious students. Till one knows better, it’s hard to distinguish something that’s hard to...
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Mozart Was a Red: A Morality Play in One Act →
via @IlllllllllllllI
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“It is important not to see the rhizome in binary opposition to the tree … The...”
– Chuen-Ferng Koh in Internet: Towards a Holistic Ontology,
Communications & Society: Enter the Rhizome: Non-duality
via wildcat2030
“Rhizomes are inclusive of hierarchies. Hierarchies, however, do not include rhizomes, at least not formally. I think it certain that rhizomes have...
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ephemera: theory & politics in organization →
“ephemera encourages the amplification of the political problematics of organization within academic debate…” - radical business schooling?
via federicoariasr
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After 1968 →
On the notion of the political in postmarxist theory.
via federicoariasr
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Mesu Kasumai - Kids in Bolivia
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340 Bierlogos im Adobe Illustrator Format →
via Coudal Partners Friday Drink Links (original link via @brainpicker)
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Which Images Represent India? →
“I’m calling this the Slumdog Shooting technique – use English because you don’t want to alienate your Western audience with subtitles, but keep the local colour full of attractive yet needy children, crowds that look struggling, and picturesque poverty.” via @socimages
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Modest Mouse - A Different City [live]
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“This is how it should be done: lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 2004 [1987] p. 161
via wildcat2030 + Rhizomes 19
…ok :)
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Modest Mouse - Alone Down There
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Outside in the Teaching Machine : Gayatri... →
“As [the study of colonial discourse] begins to be absorbed into the discipline, the long-established but supple, heterogeneous, and hierarchical power-lines of the institutional “dissemination of knowledge” continue to determine and overdetermine its conditions of representability. It is at this moment of infiltration or insertion, sufficiently under threat by the custodians of a...
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“Thought […] is not to be found only in theoretical formulations, such as in...”
– Michel Foucault: The History of Sexuality (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
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the plague of philosophy
Every philosopher runs away when he or she hears someone say “Let’s discuss this.” Discussions are fine for roundtable talks, but philosophy throws its numbered dice on another table.
The best one can say about discussions is that they take things no farther, since the participants never talk about the same thing. Of what concern is it to philosophy that someone has such a view, and thinks...
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“The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing,...”
– Theses On Feuerbach by Karl Marx (via federicoariasr)
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mapping politics through art: is this effective? →
via @submedina
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“If you own a piano, you own a piano. If you own a camera you’re a photographer.”
– David Bram in an interview on flash-flood (via photographyprison)
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the internet was real pile of **** in 1996 →
via @brainpicker
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Learning Truth Telling Beyond Neoliberal Education...
[..] It not uncommon to hear in academic seminars, policy meetings and debates that the theoretical is anti-practical and theoretical discussions slow down the completion of projects. There is a tacit agreement that when a discussion gets into a deadlock on account of theory a decision can be taken on the basis of the practical. Often at meetings one hears “too much of democracy is not going...