Extract of text from a speech by Evo Morales (via Larvatus Prodeo). Besides the undercurrent of nationalist protectionism, the use of “rule of law” is interesting if thought of as something like Agamben’s “force of law” and the figure of auctoritas. I’d be interested to see what Jon has to say about this. What does […]
Monthly Archives: December 2005
Offerings to the God of Speed 2
Some more about The World’s Fastest Indian. To a certain extent, Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) is something of an automobilised equivalent to Deleuze and Guattari’s itinerent labourers in ATP (“freemasons” who built the medieval cathedrals of Europe). The freemasons did not construct space from the conceptual abstract space of architectural ruminations, but cleaved it from […]
Criticism of Our Time
Alberto Toscano on Deleuzian method (here in a roundtable discussion): The criticism of our time, as you put it, is indissociable from an investigation and experience of its transcendental field(s), of the (impersonal) tendencies and haecceities which traverse it, as well as the potentialities, utopian ones perhaps, with which our present can be composed. This […]
Becoming-Crazy Frog
Becoming-Crazy Frog Saw the shorts for Chicken Little and Happy Feet and while I don’t expect too much from animated CGI movies it felt as if both flicks were constructed entirely around cute dancing animals that I imagine could be downloaded onto a phone or used in an internet banner of some description. Crazy Frog […]
Offerings to the God of Speed
I got to see The World’s Fastest Indian on the flight over from Sydney. It is a terrific movie. I am going to write more about it later — especially because it captures exactly what I mean by “enthusiasm” in my dissertation — but I just wanted to recommend it here in case anyone has […]