What is the power of the monstrous? Where does it get this power? Jacques Derrida, who in his early work associated the future as such with a certain monstrosity (cf Derrida’s preface to Of Grammatology), said in an interview: A monster may be obviously a composite figure of heterogenous organisms that are grafted onto each [...]
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Posted: April 9, 2012 in Becoming, Brain, capitalism, Clinamen, Deleuze, Diagramming Affective Ethics, Ecology of Sensation, Method, Perception, Precarity, self-organizing, Swarms, ValueTags: affect, assemblage, Becoming, Bergson, body, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, intensity, multiplicity, ontology, resonance
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Are you with the Occupation?
Posted: October 16, 2011 in Becoming, biopower, Brain, capitalism, Chaplin, Clinamen, Diagramming Affective Ethics, Ecology of Sensation, ethics, marketing ethics, Method, Neuroscience, New Media, Organized Networks, Perception, Precarity, Time, Value, value added, value captureTags: affect, assemblage, Becoming, body, Deleuze, difference, habit, intensity, ontology
What is the nature of a connection? I have been influenced by Franco Berardi (Bifo) recently. He points out that definitions have to be approached through multiple strategies because what is important is shocking thought by the reconstitution of a virtual field of sense and sensation. In other words, part of what is at stake [...]
Digital Marketing as Generalized Snooping: On Virilio’s Information Bomb
Posted: November 28, 2010 in biopower, capitalism, Diagramming Affective Ethics, Ecology of Sensation, marketingTags: affect, assemblage, attention, biopower, body, cell phones, habit, information, New Media, ontology, panopticism, Reality Mining, Virilio
Let’s begin with some examples that will update aspects of Virilio’s argument in The Information Bomb. 1. “The Reality Mining Dataset: The Reality Mining project represents the largest mobile phone experiment ever attempted in academia. We are collecting an unprecedented amount of data on human behavior and group interactions that we plan on anonymizing and [...]
What is ‘Marketing Ethics’?
Posted: September 20, 2010 in Becoming, biopower, capitalism, Ecology of Sensation, ethics, marketing, marketing ethics, Method, NietzscheWhat is the relationship of ethics to marketing (and capitalism more generally)? This opens on to other questions, as I’m fond of saying. Such as where is the social in marketing? Where does the social appear in marketing analysis and textbooks? As I noted in Biopower and Marketing in Grewal and Levy’s marketing textbook, the [...]
Arco Madrid
Posted: February 19, 2009 in Brain, capitalism, ethics, marketing, ValueTags: affect, Bergson, Deleuze, New Media, value added
It was my first, and I hope not last, visit to ARCO, an international arts market. It was interesting, if only because of the anxiety of being a part of an institutional machinery for assigning an exchange value to what should have no fixed exchange or use value. The discursive context fed into my project [...]
How to do things in a Bazaar
Posted: June 21, 2008 in Becoming, capitalism, Ecology of Sensation, SwarmsTo understand what is a more or less effective practice in a given bazaar, one must have a sense of a set of functionalities that emerge in resonant unity in that concrete universal called a bazaar. There are many other names for the bazaar: informal economy, piracy networks, Linux (see: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/index.html), proto-capitalist trade, an essentially barter [...]
