The Power of Kitsch
Let us muse a little about the community of lovers, or rather their operations: Nuit Blanche, a cinematic short on the encounter as a fleeting gesture of approach. Of course accompanied by emphatic...
View ArticleA Coming [European] Insurrection
Dominik was teasing me, a couple of weeks ago, and he said to me: So if I told you that the revolution was going to happen now, that I had my tanks and armies outside, would you come, would you come...
View ArticleThoughts on deconstruction and community
So, to set up our undoubtedly engaging discussion about Derrida and the politics of community, I hereby post another experpt from my paper for Precarity course. It’s not related directly to Derrida’s...
View ArticleRancière on politics and community
Interview between Peter Hallward and Jacques Rancière, august 2003. Peter Hallward: Isn’t there a quasi-transcendental or at least transhistorical aspect to your idea that the political actor, the...
View ArticleMICROPOLITICS
I thought I would draw your attention to the Micropolitics Research Group. I think “micropolitics” might present a possible modus operandi for drawing connections between art and politics, and more...
View ArticleCommunal Show and Tell, 1st posting
Ok, so I thought it would be fun to start a ‘rubriekje’ in which we can share photos, movie clips or images that we have made ourselves. My first object: a snapshot I took during my recent trip to...
View ArticleNON-LECTURES / DIFFERENT SPACES / SCHIJNHEILIG AND OTHER THOUGHTS
At the moment I am thinking through a series of questions which I hope to produce proper, well thought through blog posts on. Here they are: Why am I for re-thinking some aspects of the university?...
View ArticleOnline communities: gaming
Here is something I also posted on the cultural analysis blog, it is called Evoke, and it is an online game that attempts to utilize the gaming community to solve the worlds problems. However stupid...
View ArticleThe community that resists: thinking movement today
The global movement, from Seattle forward, appears as a battery that only half works: it accumulates energy without pause, but it does not know how or where to discharge it. (Paolo Virno, 2004) The...
View ArticleSHOW AND TELL #2 (Or: another remarkable link…) WikiLeaks
Following on from Thijs’s Show and Tell and Rik’s post on the really flipping cool work of Evoke (god, if I ever make it to teaching at university, my course is definitely going to be called Resilience...
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