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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Precarity’ Category
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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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The Affect of Precarity
Posted: October 30, 2011 in biopower, Brain, Deleuze, Diagramming Affective Ethics, Ecology of Sensation, Foucault, marketing, marketing ethics, Perception, Precarity, Time, value captureTags: affect, biopower, body, control, Deleuze, duration, Foucault, ontology, temporality
We insist on one thing. Duration. And the diagram. And affect. Ok that’s already quite a crowd, well but isn’t there an entire method in these three vector-concepts: duration, diagram, affect? What is the duration of a habit, say the habit of smoking or the habit of playing a guitar? Remember what Toscano teaches us [...]
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 [...]
