theoretically apraxicIn light of today’s protest against the recent actions of the University of Nottingham, I thought this document might be pertinent. Entitled ‘Who Rules Columbia’, it charts the objections of the students at Columbia during the student uprising in 1968. While clearly the issues raised are specific to a particular time and place, it’s an [...]
I was recently reading an essay by Rober Pfaller entitled ‘The Familiar Unknown, the Uncanny, the Comic: The Aesthetic Effects of Thought Experiment’, in which he argues that both the uncanny and the comic are related to illusion. This relationship occurs on two levels. The first level is the illusion of the uncanny, which must [...]
This is the proposal I submitted for a paper that I will be giving in Rome in September: The inability of modern, secular states to manage the divergent interests of their populations has been and continues to be demonstrated in conflicts between religious groups as well as religious and secular voices. Drawing on the intersection [...]
‘In this alethosphere the prosthetically enhanced, plugged-in subject does not to flee reality in order to indulge his pleasure principle, for he is now able to remould reality in accordance with it. In other words, in the ultra-modern, advanced capitalist world, the pleasure principle and the reality principle are no longer in competition, but have [...]
