I’ve stopped smoking and my body is in revolt. I googled “can i do exercise when I have the flu” this morning. Because it is my lungs, apparently I am not meant to exercise. I still did 20 minutes on the bike, however. I’ll probably go for a walk later. Instead, I’ve been looking for […]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Finding a Rhythm
I’ve spent the last few months getting some rhythm back into my everyday life. I am enjoying life more. I am enjoying the rhythm and the work rhythm does to enable me to dissociate (more in chemistry sense, than psychoanalytic) some elements of my life. These elements are being raised through a kind of active […]
Media Events and Senses of Occasion
Below is my abstract submitted for the CSAA 2012 conference. I am speaking at the Pre-Fix event, too. It will be good to catch up with everyone! This is a bit of a fun paper for me as I want to have a breather from thinking about ‘enthusiasm’ and so on. It builds on some […]
Sexual Desire, Associated Milieus and Appetition
In my previous post I outlined the paper I had just submitted on gender and garages. My final point in the paper is thinking Whitehead’s concept of ‘appetition’ with Simondon’s concept of ‘associated milieus’. Thinking about it some more (while on my exercise bike doing my daily morning ride) I remembered this post Powered by […]
Gender and the garage-assemblage
Yesterday, I sent off my final version of a paper I’ve been working on for some time. The question of gender in the context of my existing work is somewhat problematic. Except for a few notable exceptions, I was not entirely happy with the way masculinities have been critically discussed. Clifton Evers work on surfing and masculinity […]