Check out Steve Shaviro’s comments on Jonathan Beller’s book The “Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle” published late last year. I am a fan of Beller’s work. I rearticulate some of the comments I made here in a slightly different way in the comments to Steve’s post. Looks like […]
Monthly Archives: February 2007
battlestar galactica: class
Battlestar Galactica presents a collage of stratifications, thresholds, and foldings — non/human, non/military, non/political, non/religious, etc. — which don’t always correlate with everyday life, but which may capture a social antagonism that does correlate. Of course, this is part of the science-fiction poetics of the show, and one of the joys granted to viewers is […]
what if michael leunig was gen-X? #2
BKRC
you need a haircut EDIT: How awesome? F’ckin awesome. Muscles, you rocked that shit. (Check the third track in the myspace player.) Some dude knew my scary go round t-shirt! s/cultural capital! full effectz! I bailed after my aquaintence had left me, headed to The Clare with some dudes I met at the BKRC. Shouts […]
book launch, working
So the book in which I have a chapter is being launched April 4. I hope I’ll be working the event (it is at Gleebooks). Would that be making too much of a ‘statement’? You know, regarding the precarity of young scholars in the neo-liberal university system, the example being of such a young scholar […]