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 [...]
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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
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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 Bergson’s Pure Duration and Suzuki’s Sunyata-Tathata
Posted: June 28, 2008 in Bergson, Brain, Causality, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, Freedom, Method, Nietzsche, Perception, Representation, Succession, Time, ZenTags: affect, Bergson, duration, intensity, Suzuki, temporality, Zen
Bergson writes in Time and Free Will: “To say that the same inner causes will reproduce the same effects is to assume that the same cause can appear a second time on the stage of consciousness. Now, if duration is what we say, deep seated psychic states are radically heterogeneous to each other, and it is impossible that any two of them [...]
