Doing a google for something else I just came across a very cool article by Maurizio Lazzarato entitled “Struggle, Event, Mediaâ€. Lazzarato is attempting to answer a question about why ‘representation’ is a problem for contemporary progressive and radical politics. It is an interesting use of the ‘event’ and very close to the way I […]
Monthly Archives: September 2005
Broken Hard Disk = KKD!!!!!
[deep breath] I have had my second portable hard disk fail on me in a 14 month period. Yes, I really want to break something. Namely, the designer of these piece of shit portable hard disks. This one had about 12 gigs of stuff on it out of a 120 gig capacity. One day I […]
We’re all arms dealers
Lord of War has received mostly bad reviews for being too ‘thought provoking’ or ‘preachy’. If film critics are meant to be emblematic of film audiences, then I am not surprised by such proud stupidity. As one comment on the IMDB page for this film put it: “Lord of war: Great film seeming to receive […]
Grammar of the Machinic
Got my hands on a copy of Felix Guattari’s Molecular Revolution (see Charles Stivale’s comments here). It is an awesome book. I have sort of jumped in halfway as I need to write my paper for the CSAA conference (assuming it is accepted, not sure if it will be!) and get it out of the […]
Gym
OK so I weigh in at a petite 111.5kgs now (245.3 lbs for the backward;). Down from 130-odd kgs (280-ish lbs) 6-and-a-bit months ago. Plus, I am not smoking at all and don’t really think about it. I can do regular 7 minute-2km ergo’s (rowing machine). This means that I am fit, believe it. I […]