Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Outline for a paper about the emerging data self

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1. Identity is fundamentally multiple, incomplete, provisional, cyborg, contextually contingent, etc. Deleuze et al. are right about that. (...
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identity work is always collective

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Note to self: Remember that the work of identity construction for any given individual is always collective. One's identity is not the p...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Existential liberalism as ideological fog

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From "Reflections on the Call" by Leon de Mattis, in Communization and Its Discontents. This is a good point: It is certain tha...
Monday, January 16, 2012

The fallacy of the voluntaristic capitalist subjectivity and how to overcome it

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From "What Is to be Done?" by the Endnotes group; the first essay in Communization and Its Discontents , Ed. Benjamin Noys. Thou...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Demand doesn't always precede the market

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From "Post-Fordist Desires: The Commodity Aesthetics of Bangkok Sex Shows" by Ara Wilson (Feminist Legal Studies (2010) 18:53–67) ...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Exhaustion of generic raw material

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From Fredric Jameson, "Realism and Utopia in The Wire" ( pdf ) Jameson points out how formulaic pop culture is losing some of it...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Collective identity and the coming festivalization of culture

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Interesting bit from Bill Wasik's Wired article about technology and riots: To Stott, members of a crowd are never really “on their ...