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responsibility for unconscious predispositions
The call for action on 29th seemed not not been passed on too much. Still worth to point to it (1st part) – and reflections (read further) on reasons and suppressed/ unconscious predispositions which create the fortress of enclosing eurocentrism :
The collective attempts by more than four thousand migrants to cross the ... -
homesickness’ desire for nomadic thoughts
“’Philosophy is really homesickness,’ says Novalis: ‘it is the urge to be at home everywhere.’”
I have been pointed to the Long Sunday blog and it obviously is a place worth future visit. Just linking to some of their readings … “The gravest and most painful testimony of the modern world, the one that … -
initiating refusal
Almost 50 years ago Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat in a bus for a white man made her a symbolic figure for the US civil rights movement.image: Rosa Parks sits up fron on a Montgomery, Ala. bus in December 1956. (link)
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gap as object-cause of desire
by defining Marx’ view going wrong on a misinterpretation of capitalism – or – locating the petit object a as inherent limit to capitalism.
To read here just some longer excerpts on democracy, immaterial labour, multitude and violence. Zizek combines a comparison of recent thinkers on the basis of the latest books of Negri … -
blogging – getting heard by being read
Some irony in the news that a blogger wins the 3rd prize in the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage based on a recently published book of her bloggings? Nevertheless it allowed a voice to come through which might not have been developed and heard otherwise. Using the pseudonym Riverbend though …
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memory trace – absence’s signifier
This link established to a quote from Marc Augé’s latest book on Oblivion brought me to follow some associative traces of the memory path simultaneously connecting between remembrance and forgetting. As a still remarkable example to see the impact and power of these technics I point to Jean Rouche’s film ‘Les Maitres Fous’. Here …
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rize
LaChapelle’s documentary on LA street scene hiphop reaches Europe and the longer taz review (only german) finds a concise equivalent in this Village Voice review from the beginning of the year:
Predictably, perhaps, the year’s big-ticket doc about race and class is the work of a rich, white fashion photographer turning his gaze on a …