marginal utility annex
An annex to my writing elsewhere.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
"The mirror of production" notes
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I read Baudrillard's The Mirror of Production recently and underlined a bunch of passages and scrawled lots of notes into the margins, ...
Thursday, September 30, 2010
"Enlightenment as Mass Deception" revisited
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From an article in Fast Capitalism 2:2, "Compliance Fiction: Adorno and Horkheimer's 'Culture Industry' Thesis in a Multi...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
žižek on love
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In this essay in the New Left Review, Zižek makes some interesting claims about the nature of love, some of which I think I have read or hea...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Flexibility and resistance
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Though I don't think the coining of "altermodernity" is helpful, Micah White makes a good point in this essay : Could it be th...
Friday, September 10, 2010
Time discipline and social networks as bridge to new forms of it
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The Fast Capitalism article I discussed int he previous post directed me to E.P. Thompson's essay "Time, Work-Discipline, and Indus...
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Fast Capitalism, convenience etc.
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I think a lot of technology gets pushed at us under the ideological aegis of convenience; we are supposed to adopt it because it will make o...
Friday, September 03, 2010
A note about Trollope's The Small House at Allington
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The obvious thing about this novel is that it examines the sexual double standard with regard to constancy. Women love once and forever; men...
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