I don’t know enough about you To be kind, to be kind to you Don’t you even think about me — Cymbals, “The Natural World” The Cymbals’ electro-pop lament of unrequited attention (‘love’) has the same furtively repetitive energetics of yearning through ‘refresh’. Refresh the inbox, refresh the stream, refresh the wall. Repeat. Has the […]
Category Archives: Bourgies
Nihilist Pop Culture: Consumed by the Insignificant
What I am now going to relate is the history of the next two centuries. I shall describe what will happen, what must necessarily happen: the triumph of Nihilism. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power) One of my goals for the course is to render students incapable of watching TV and film in the passive, mildly […]
Heidegger versus Deleuze: On Events and Being
Although Richard Grusin voiced some concerns about the effect of ‘live’ Twitter use at conferences and whether or not the increased intensity is positive, Troy Rhoades very kindly asked a question I had posted to Twitter during the question time of Erin Manning’s plenary of the Nonhuman Turn conference currently underway. Video of Erin’s plenary […]
Steve Jobs RIP: Can Design Make the World a Better Place?
My tweet questioning the outpouring of grief regarding the passing of Steve Jobs has generated a range of responses. My original tweet: Deliberately provocative, it certainly provoked. Perhaps too much, so I am writing this post. My first response to hearing about the news was ‘whoa’ and then I began thinking about Deleuze’s discussion of […]
Hayekian Economics: I don’t get it
On one of my recent trips up to Sydney from Canberra I listened to the debate hosted at the London School of Economics and produced as a program for the BBC with the theme of Keynes vs. Hayek. I listened to the ‘complete’ version availble on iTunesU, posted by the LSE. Keynes is traditionally understood […]