So I finally got my hands on Pierre Levy’s Collective Intelligence and I am making my way through it. However, I am disturbed by the 20 or so pages I have read so far. The explicit Cartesianism of Levy’s argument combined with his obvious D&G influence is bizarre. Utterly bizarre. As Levy is a Francophone […]
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RIP Bike: Stack
Had a stack on my bike today. Actually it wasn’t so much a stack as a technological malfunction. The crank snapped at the point where the pedal is screwed in. It was a relatively low speed stack as I had just gone around a corner, but I was powering up and therefore had my full […]
Thesis Troubles #1: Redux
Looks like I have to read up on another thinker, Pierre Lévy (these two books). Massumi makes a brief reference to a book of his in Parables of the Virtual (p.71) in the football (soccer) section in the chapter about the political economy of belonging: “collective individuation around a catalyzing point.” Here is a short […]
Massumi Paper: ¥€$ to Futurity 2
Found this very interesting paper by Brian Massumi last night, The Future Birth of the Affective Fact. He actually touches on quite a number of issues that have concerned me and which I have taken up here on my blog. One of them is the status of the relation to futurity in neoliberalism and the […]