Following up from the last post… Part of Jodi Dean‘s response to her critics was this paragraph: Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of communism is its capacity to return, throughout history, as an aspiration, even in the face of counter revolution, active hostility, defeat, war, etc. Communism is irreducible to the conflicts of the 20th […]
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More on communism (vision & history)
Posted in Academe, Politics on March 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Belief in expired wor(l)ds, & in wor(l)ds to come…
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, tagged capitalism, commons, Communism, Deleuze, Hardt & Negri on March 14, 2011 | 12 Comments »
It riles me up when intelligent people whose work I respect a lot say ill-considered, if not outright indefensible, things. Jodi Dean’s post arguing that communism “worked” strikes me as such a thing. I’ve provided a lengthy counter-argument on her blog, the gist of which is that the political projects that were actually carried out […]
cfp: Rethinking Time & Ecology
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy on March 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of Environmental Philosophy THEME: Temporal Environments: Rethinking Time and Ecology Details:
Open movie culture
Posted in Media ecology on March 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Among the freely watchable films Open Culture includes in their 340 Free Movies Online list are films by Tarkovsky (all of them!), Godard (Breathless, King Lear), Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove), Jarman (Caravaggio), Hawks (His Girl Friday), Bunuel (L’Age d’Or), Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour, Nuit et brouillard/Night and Fog), Kurosawa (Rashomon, Throne of Blood), Dreyer (Vampyr), Greenaway […]
The anthro(polo)(blogo)sphere
Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, tagged academic blogging, anthropology on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Having looked at the debate among critical geographers over blogging and social media (here, here, and here), let’s look at another, adjacent discipline: anthropology. No work necessary: Ryan Anderson’s latest post at Ethnographix does it for us. Anthropologists, Anderson writes, have been “slow to find their way into the vastness that is the internet.” Fortunately, […]
Drip-drip or occasional release?
Posted in Blog stuff on March 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The last few posts raise the question of whether it’s better for me to post newsy snippets like these as separate blog posts, or if I should keep them in the Immanence Shadow Blog (Google shared items feed). I’ve generally confined them to the latter, except when there’s something particularly important or worthy of comment. […]
Revolution as clash of velocities
Posted in Politics, tagged affect, Deleuze, Egypt, resonance, revolution, Spinoza on March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At Space and Politics, Gaston Gordillo continues his Spinozan-Deleuzian account of the “revolutionary resonance” of the tumult spreading across the Arab world. “The longer a resonance lasts and the farther it expands the stronger it becomes. During most of human history, the maximum speed at which a revolutionary resonance traveled was the speed of the […]
Metaphorics of “revolution” & “rebellion”
Posted in Media ecology, tagged media, NPR, public radio on March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When we hear about a Twitter and Facebook “revolution” in “X Square” or in a city in Libya, do we get keyed up? When we later hear about “rebels” and “civil war” somewhere in Africa (in that same Libya), do we tune out? This week’s On the Media — one of the best hours of […]
Plastic planet
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged crisis, environment, plastic planet, toxic planet on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Discard Studies shares Max Liboiron’s engrossing, and depressing, account of the ocean’s toxic soup of plastics. A few quotes: “The best conservative estimate we have is that there are 315 billion pounds of plastic in the ocean. For comparison, The Gulf Spill spewed roughly 2.5 million pounds of oil per day at its peak. That […]
Hold your fire…
Posted in Blog stuff on March 5, 2011 | 9 Comments »
One of my favorite object-oriented bloggers (who we’ll call A) writes that “It’s not surprising that there’s a wave of attacks on scholarly blogging” (emphasis added), pointing to another’s (B’s) post about “blowback from academics regarding blogging.” B’s post cites only two examples, “here on (A’s) blog (circularity #1) and here on (C’s).” The one […]
Why blog (reprise)
Posted in Academe, Blog stuff on March 4, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Stu Elden has been posting about a debate debate on the Critical Geography listserv over the virtues and pitfalls of blogging, and of using blogs, Twitter, and other social media as research tools and data. I’ve been trying to follow that debate, at least to the extent that I’ve been able to follow anything on […]
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