I found the film to be deeply disturbing. Not because of the drug stuff;Â the filmic representations of drug ab/use and associated culture is nothing really new, but the disturbing quality of the film came from the inability of the two main characters to negotiate the forces that pushed them out and pushed them together. They […]
Monthly Archives: May 2006
DeLanda Interview, Markets, Consumption, Worlds
For those who read and use Deleuze, Guattari, and D&G’s work, here is an interview/discussion I came across between DeLanda, John Protevi, and Torkild Thanem. I quite enjoyed Protevi’s book Deleuze and Geophilosophy, although the deferrance he shows to DeLanda in this interview is a bit weird. The interview is interesting for a number of […]
Successful Paper
I am very pleased with my performance delivering a seminar paper ealier today. Hmm, it is 3:30am at the moment, so 12 hours ago! It is the first time giving such papers over the last 4 years that I felt: Entirely comfortable with the material. I was discussing literally one sixth of a chapter with […]
Paradise Lost
An extract from my paper I am writing for a seminar on Friday. I call this the ‘Paradise Lost’ period of Street Machining during the formative years of Street Machine magazine under the editorial control of Geoff Paradise and published by Murray Publishers. The impact of the publishing decision to replace Paradise as editor of […]
Academic Differends
I have written a rather long-winded a-grammatical reply to a post by Steve Shaviro on what he calls the “differend between dialectics, with its notes of crisis, contradiction, and antagonism, and pluralism of the Deleuzian variety, with its rejection of any thought of the negative and its insistence on the metastability of the virtual as […]