So we’ve had shock jocks for some time. Now we have trauma jocks. AUTHORITIES are investigating a radio stunt which saw a young girl strapped to a lie detector before revealing she was raped. The girl was peppered with questions about whether she had ever had sex before she broke down on the 2Day FM […]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Prince of Networks #4: Bergson
Earlier discussion here, here and here. It is clear that in his book Prince of Networks on Bruno Latour and on his blog, Harman is trying to make room for a concept of time as a series of cinematic-instants. He argues against an allegedly Bergsonian conception of time in Deleuze’s work that is organised around […]
potentially infinite scale without structural polarizations
The consequence of throwing out the category of class together with the logic of economism has not been to institute a new and more adequate model of analysis, but to abandon the field to the wilderness of stratification theory, for which, in Don Aitkin’s terms, class ‘is a concept of merely nominal value: it is […]
The Rotten Machine
Lazarus: You really think you’re making a difference? O’Niel: [shrug] Lazarus: Then why for god’s sake? O’Niel: Because.. maybe they are right. They send me here to this pile of shit becaue maybe I belong here… I want to find out… well… if they’re right. There is a whole machine that works because everyone does […]
Prince of Networks #3: Cinema for bugs and dogs?
This was originally written as a reply on Levi Bryant’s blog as part of the on going discussion of Graham Harman‘s book on Bruno Latour Prince of Networks. Please read the previous post first to get some context if needed. So, I was going to wait until I’d actually finished the book, but, hey, why […]