February 2012
60 posts
Bloom Theory - Tiqqun
Bloom also means that each person knows for himself that he is not himself. Even if momentarily, faced with such and such a person — and most frequently in anonymous interactions — we might get an impression to the contrary, we still retain at bottom that feeling that this is an inauthentic existence, an artificial life. The internal presence of the Other takes shape on every level of our...
Bloom Theory - Tiqqun
In the same way as all harmonious moral philosophy which might have given consistency to the illusion of an “authentic” self is now lacking, everything that could have made one believe in the unambiguousness of life or in the formal positivity of the world has been scattered as well. In truth, our “sense of what’s real” never ends up as more than a limited modality of that “sense of the...
Bloom Theory - Tiqqun
Since it always impregnates beforehand all the conceptual instruments by which PEOPLE might claim to understand it, the Stimmung cannot be understood, circumscribed, or analyzed “objectively,” no matter how much one might be able to feel it. The best we can draw out of it is the Figure that corresponds to it, in the sense where a Figure is a human power to configure worlds . What we’re...
“The difference for us, however, is defining. We cannot peaceably live in a world...”
– Fuck Forever and Never Die
Bloom Theory - Tiqqun
Our era is reducing itself to one single, basic reality, and to amusement in that reality. More and more visibly, our contemporary non-societies — those imperative fictions — endlessly populate themselves with pariahs and parvenus. And the parvenus are themselves merely pariahs that have betrayed their condition and would like to make it forgotten by all means — but it always ends up biting them...
“The nature of the “skills” being reproduced in U.S., the ones that we can still...”
– Marginal Utility Mirror: Worker = Hipster (15 July 2010) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“It’s important to think about what “getting better at making things” means...”
– Marginal Utility Mirror: Worker = Hipster (15 July 2010)
“Incidentally, this is why critics of capitalism sometimes complain about...”
– Marginal Utility Mirror: Worker = Hipster (15 July 2010)
“Throughout the Edge conversation, Lanier makes apt complaints about the way the...”
– marginal utility annex: Worker=hipster redux
“I wrote a few posts a while ago about this question — young people being paid in...”
– marginal utility annex: Worker=hipster redux
“And, lest we forget, the cop is nominally an employee of those he arrests,...”
– acakk-all-cops-are-keystone-kops
“Such is the hostility of the police: as corporal extension of the law as such...”
– acakk-all-cops-are-keystone-kops
“That pre-cognitive rising chest or elevator-fall stomach, that sensation that...”
– acakk-all-cops-are-keystone-kops
Communization & Its Disconents: Contestation,...
In fact, I would suggest that the seemingly inexorable collapse of any reformist project, together with the adulteration of ‘reform’ into a concept synonymous with neoliberal adjustment (as in ‘pension reform’), has had remarkably deep effects on the radical political imagination, and on its very vocabulary. The upshot of this predicament is the proliferation of an intransitive politics – by which...
Communization & Its Disconents: Contestation,...
To the formula of Call which says: ‘the overthrowing of capitalism will come from those who are able to create the conditions for other types of relations,’ we must respond: ‘the conditions for other types of relations will be created by those who are able to overthrow capitalism.’
“Human civilisation’s techno-scientific ambitions bring about the destruction of...”
– Eurozine - On the post-city - Daniel Miller
“We are currently offering emergency production grants in amounts of $300, $500,...”
– ArtIsMyOccupation | Emergency mini-grants
“Much of the non-Tiqqunist communization rhetoric (TC/Endnotes/et al) often...”
– APPLIED NONEXISTENCE » Tiqqun > TC/Endnotes – Trajectories of Communization
““Capitalism produces the conditions for its transcendence, not that...”
– APPLIED NONEXISTENCE » Tiqqun > TC/Endnotes – Trajectories of Communization
“Obviously, every human on earth is a “special” and thus somewhat “peculiar”...”
– Ludic Despair: The Market in Quirk
“If ever there were a time to launch a coordinated assault on the...”
– http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate
“In a letter obtained by Reuters Friday, the Federation of Greek Police accused...”
– taking-a-stand-greek-police-rise-with-their-people-occupypolice
“St Paul Principles
our solidarity will be based on respect for a diversity of...”
– St Paul Principles | Unconventional Action – Mid Atlantic
“It’s election year. Those who still have faith in the system, or those whose...”
– The Surgeons of Occupy » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
“Predictably, Chris Hedges uses the name of Martin Luther King, Jr., to gain...”
– The Surgeons of Occupy » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
“Boomers felt it was their destiny to get rich–that if they just put in the...”
– Thirty More Years of Hell
“We Millennials have all the same ludicrous delusions of grandeur as our parents,...”
– Thirty More Years of Hell
Third Way (moderate left politics) - Wikipedia,...
The term Third Way refers to a centre-leftprogressive form of politics.[1][2] Third Way was created as a serious re-evaluation of political policies within various centre-left progressive movements in response to the ramifications of the collapse of international belief in the economic viability of the state economic interventionist policies that had previously been popularized byKeynesianism; and...
“A submerged state, according to political scientist Suzanne Mettler, is what you...”
– Thirty More Years of Hell
“The actual cost of universal free higher education is negligible–estimated...”
– Thirty More Years of Hell
“But that’s not even the worst of it. Read the fine print: it’s 5% of wages,...”
– Thirty More Years of Hell
“Over the course of the next 40 years, Gandhi and his movement were regularly...”
– n+1: Concerning the Violent Peace-Police
“You write that Black Bloc’ers smashed up a “locally owned coffee shop”; I...”
– n+1: Concerning the Violent Peace-Police
“In my experience, when I point this sort of thing out, the first reaction I...”
– n+1: Concerning the Violent Peace-Police
“The reason I say this is because, whatever your intentions, it is very hard to...”
– n+1: Concerning the Violent Peace-Police
“diversity of tactics” means leaving such matters up to individual conscience,...”
– n+1: Concerning the Violent Peace-Police
“On the Public Broadcasting System (PBS News Hour, January 9), the non-commercial...”
– Super Savage Sunday: Obama Tightens the Screws on Iran
“Again, it must be stressed that not a single government in the world — including...”
– Super Savage Sunday: Obama Tightens the Screws on Iran
“Seeing them stand up to police repression and attempt to take an empty building...”
– FACING REALITY - To Be Fair, He Is a Journalist: A Short Response to Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc
“First, we need to clear up some definitional problems. Now, as a journalist, I...”
– FACING REALITY - To Be Fair, He Is a Journalist: A Short Response to Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc
“Certain breeds of urban dwellers benefit, too. In gentrifying sections of...”
– http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate
“Any apparent gains made in the last thirty years in narrowing the employment and...”
– http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate
“Of course, not everyone has made out badly from the country’s...”
– http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate
“The “assumed innocent until proven guilty” line doesn’t work for me, if...”
– The Cerebral Male Argument against Rape Denial « destructural
“As the report notes, it’s particularly remarkable that these findings come on...”
– U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners - Salon.com
“What Ayn Rand once called the “freest, noblest country in the history of the...”
– http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate
“as long as the political opposition to the Tories is so weak, they can expect...”
– LENIN’S TOMB: Bad cops, bad cops
“for as long as the political opposition to the Tories is so weak, they can...”
– LENIN’S TOMB: Bad cops, bad cops