Read this after you have seen the film and please go see it. It is very good. Below is a post that is parts review, critical exegesis of the film and reflection of its critical reception. The post has been languishing in my drafts folder for a few weeks and it was only after two […]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Media Interest Cycle
John Battelle has an interesting post on his blog that begins to isolate the phenomenon of internet interest bubbles. John is primarily talking about tech journalism and he explains that the bread and butter of tech journalists is to pursue the “echo chamber”. Rather than one massive tech bubble like the dot-com boom that collapsed […]
Event Mechanics of Opportunity
Everyone does not have access to the same opportunities due to circumstance or the inability to witness their own circumstance. An ‘opportunity‘ is a recomposition of processual relations. It is an event that releases new visibilities, new discourses (or different ways of participating in familiar discourses), new capacities for action and so on. There is […]
Everything is an Object
Levi has posted some claims about objects from his forthcoming book. He seems to be suggesting that everything is an object (or at least can be discussed as an object), and considering he has been developing a theory of objects, he therefore has a theory of everything.
Reading D&G: Learning
Nate over at An Un-canny Ontology responded to my brief comments on his blog, so I have left another comment that I have pasted below with some additional material from Albert Toscano’s excellent preface to Eric Alliez’s Signature of the World: Nate, to understand the ‘concept’ of the concept I suggest you read Eric Alliez’s […]