I have a number of categories through which I judge whether a piece of music is worth me adding it to my master play list. The categories are not simply about being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and they are certainly not received categories of technical or cultural competence. These categories are slightly more esoteric than that. […]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Deleuze! WTF?
I am busy marking at the moment, and I only try to let myself have one hour of playtime a day. I exceeded the quota terribly today. Why not add a blog post to the tally? There are abrupt moments where I will read Deleuze’s work and think, “Deleuze! What the fuck?” I read something […]
Biopolitics Reading Group notes 2
Over the fold are my brief notes on Foucault’s Governmentality lecture for the biopolitics reading group. I am the discussant this week so here is my point for discussion. The question I raise is regarding the movement of what Foucault ultimately calls ‘interests’ there are two parts to this. The first traces the idea of […]
For Fuck You Homo
This post is for this commenter who in part wrote: From what I can see you are doing phd on the most bogan of interests, you call that culture? You’re a fucking absolute moron. And I am GLAD you don’t get any pussy. Fucking eat shit and die and I hope to christ you fucking […]
Supercharged Catalogue
I received some copies of the catalogue to the Supercharged exhibition in the mail. Damn. It has some sort of fine felt-like covering and the lettering on the cover is embossed with some sort of flashy silver material. It feels good to hold and looks good to read. It is so cool! My essay looks […]