According to Deleuze, Nietzsche’s favorite method is to consider a thing’s plurality of senses depending on the many forces that can take possession of it (N+P 143). Thus there are many types of religions depending on the forces dominant and minor in it. This method is particularly useful in considering media today. There are many [...]
Posts Tagged ‘machinic phylum’
Sense, Value, Force in Indian Mobile Phone Cultures
Posted: January 20, 2010 in Clinamen, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, New Media, Perception, SwarmsTags: affect, Deleuze, machinic phylum, multiplicity, New Media, technology
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Memory, Sensation, Duration in Contemporary Media Assemblages in India
Posted: February 6, 2009 in India, New Media, Time, ValueTags: assemblage, Becoming, biopower, cell phones, duration, habit, machinic phylum, New Media, ontology, technology, temporality, value added
I am attempting to think through the implications for media assmeblage analysis of the connection that Bergson makes between the body and duration. This is an excerpt from an article I recently wrote. It may appear in South Asian Culture and History. The main point here for the purposes of this paper, is that Office [...]
On the Work of Art Today: Benjamin and the Machinic Phylum
Posted: October 27, 2008 in Benjamin, Cinema, Ecology of Sensation, Method, New Media, Perception, Representation, SwarmsTags: affect, aura, Benjamin, Deleuze, machinic phylum, New Media, RFID, shock, Swarms, technology, video games
We will begin here with Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” (Second Version of 1936). (I’m not going to justify using this version except to say that there are aspects to it that exceed Adorno’s policing of Walter!) W.J.T. Mitchell has clarified the genealogy that ties Benjamin’s “Artwork” [...]
