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05 Mar

Sorcery

Sorcery. What is the limit of what a noise can do? A certain noise means extinction for almost all regimes — not only of signs; it is an explosion of intensity or…
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 10:06 pm By Joe 2 Replies
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06 Feb

Animal

The status of the animal raises a number of critical questions — for psychology, for political economy, but also for philosophy, gathering together the problem of the meaning of the animal…
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 1:18 am By Joe 2 Replies
Salvador Dali, Metamorphosis of Narcissus
29 Jan

Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis. There is a kind of explanatory knot or gap in every narrative model of world history; a thread of teleology which tightens around the throats of every minor voice,…
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 6:44 pm By Joe 5 Replies
The Fractal Theory, by ibrokejason (via DeviantArt)
26 Jan

Three Hundred

We would like to take a moment to celebrate a milestone: Fractal Ontology is now over four years old and boasts more than 300 posts. We’ve upgraded our theme to…
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 2:28 am By Joe 1 Reply
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19 Jan

Simondon in English: “Two Lessons on Animal and Man”

It is my great delight to help announce the publication of one of the first book-length English translations available of the writings of French philosopher of technology Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989), published…
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 6:59 pm By Joe 2 Replies
Banksy at Occupy LSX
01 Dec

Occupy Theory!

The 99% movement sweeping the globe is indeed something new under the sun. Little molecular revolutions, the occupations are rhizomes; in this clear revolt against neoliberal “realism” who does not…
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 10:36 pm By Joe 2 Replies
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24 Sep

Spectral

“The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.” (Montaigne) Protocol. Perhaps one dimension of the aesthetic appeal of the mechanical is in the ‘purity’ of…
Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 2:04 pm By Joe 2 Replies
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20 Mar

Earth

In the duplicity of beauty there is the strange trope of a presence which is the shadow of itself, of a being which, anachronously, lurks in its own trace. (Levinas,…
Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 11:07 am By Joe 3 Replies
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03 Feb

Genesis

Genesis. Enormous psychosocial and political transformations were necessary in order to put into place the global transhistorical capitalist institutions we take for granted. Capitalism is different, genetically as it were,…
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 4:43 pm By Joe 12 Replies
Road Trip
15 Jul

Statement

Hypermediation. What is a statement? But the problem is already determining the singular projection of the statement onto life: both to identify the variously formed matters contained within it, with…
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 12:55 am By Joe 6 Replies
Paul Klee, "Highways and Byways"
20 Nov

Irreal

Irrealism. Modernity can be seen as a kind of victory for realism, but this victory was always already betrayed by capitalism, disseminated to death. Despite all appearances, the masks and…
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:16 am By Joe 5 Replies
Event Horizon, Geoffrey Chandler [http://iasos.com/artists/chandler/]
07 Oct

Event

Events are decentered and non-relational, and always a kind of creation (the event is the very introduction of novelty into existence.) As the substance of history events amount to  chasms…
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 12:01 am By Joe 7 Replies
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30 Sep

Quiet

Silence, that shadow of language in which everything is nevertheless said, is today almost always but a lapse, the momentary oversight of an animal which acts as though in speech…
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 8:52 pm By Joe 5 Replies
World War I, Wasily Kandinsky
17 Sep

Soul

A man like Kant can explain the beautiful in terms of a pure disinterested pleasure — such a knotted definition is not in itself surprising, nor is the kind of…
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 9:50 pm By Joe 6 Replies
Rene Magritte, "The Lovers" (1928)
22 Jul

Return

Will. The question of the will is not whether to emphasize cycles or fluxes (identities or events, structures or processes, concepts and percepts or acts and effects); still less how…
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 6:44 pm By Joe 2 Replies
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16 Jul

Differently

This creature Life, beyond all evaluations, remains an uninterpretable difference — a kind of difference which is primary with respect to a differential identity, a difference which directly induces individuation,…
Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 6:21 pm By Joe Leave a Reply
Bomberg, The Mud Bath
02 Jul

Firestorm

Twins. Capitalism is nihilism, an endless betrayal of production in favor of an infinite — imaginary — debt or Void, which implies the transcendental equivalence of all processes, their essential…
Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 7:18 pm By Joe 16 Replies
Valentin Bazarov, Flowers
17 May

Woman

I mean to say that the world is full of beautiful things but nevertheless poor, very poor when it comes to beautiful moments and unveilings of these things. But perhaps…
Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 11:41 am By Joe 4 Replies
Joel Isaacson, James Joyce (1998)
13 May

Pathways

Joel Isaacson, James Joyce (1998) War on Information. Idealism begins with the proposition that life is futurity, yet attempts to halt before the inevitable futility this produces, the cancerous desires…
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 6:48 pm By Joe 2 Replies
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01 May

Break

Nietzsche. That joy and vision should be brought to bear even in the darkest corner of the human soul — and especially upon that within it which surges upwards and…
Friday, May 1, 2009 at 7:47 pm By Joe Leave a Reply
Michale Brun, A Moment of Silence (1/3)
16 Apr

Novelty

Permutation. An idea, an axiom, and especially a supposedly universal system, cannot help but attach to what is readily available. A finite stock; an endless and chaotic assemblage of variations,…
Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 11:56 pm By Joe 2 Replies
Mark Rothko
20 Mar

Noises

    Non-expression. Speaking is a donation of words; but in this donation is dramatized an idea of alterity, an uncanny and infinite Power mysteriously unleashed, and this by a…
Friday, March 20, 2009 at 9:05 pm By Joe 9 Replies
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13 Mar

Supplements

    Is mathematics discovered or invented? But what if we have misplaced the scent from the start; in other words what if this clear distinction elides the process itself,…
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 8:43 pm By Joe 2 Replies
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20 Feb

Dream

    “When I’m dreaming back like that I begins to see we’re only all telescopes.” Joyce, Finnegans Wake     Dream-analysis does not necessitate an affirmation of the existence of…
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 8:40 pm By Joe 14 Replies
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15 Feb

Words

    Jargon. A word decodes by assembling: a mobile army, a mob or mass of “blocks,” segments extruded from heterogeneous flows: flows with and without codes, flows of energy and…
Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 8:38 pm By Joe 1 Reply
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27 Jan

Guattari

    On Guattari. The first ecosopher has arisen — but how to read his writings? There is not a single answer, everyone disagrees. To read Guattari without Deleuze seems like…
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 12:30 am By Joe 3 Replies
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23 Jan

Cyclone

  A properly ontological investigation is a ceaseless circulation around the notions of emptiness and presence, a rigorous attempt to discern the peculiar concepts of existence and nothingness, always and…
Friday, January 23, 2009 at 12:48 pm By Joe 8 Replies
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02 Jan

Infrastructure

    The essence of a channel is to transmit, to disseminate, to yield a flux. The problem of knowledge is correlative to constructing an adequate channel for the reception…
Friday, January 2, 2009 at 7:51 pm By Joe 11 Replies
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19 Dec

Transparency

      The world is hollow. In-itself anything is precisely nothing.  A thing exists positively only in the precise sense that it exhibits certain forces, that it forms connections…
Friday, December 19, 2008 at 9:03 pm By Joe 1 Reply
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07 Dec

Trajectory

A series of imminent and necessary breakdowns are inherent to the production of desire: first, because desires connect up to an outside, with something which is always unrecognized, which is…
Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 11:31 pm By Joe 7 Replies
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26 Nov

Other

A science of being is not enough. This subtraction which purifies, this selection and division which makes holy, which ‘invents’ and ‘discovers’ truth — how could ontology do anything but…
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 12:00 am By Joe 6 Replies
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25 Nov

Involve

    Transiency hurls itself everywhere into a deep state of being. And therefore all forms of this our world are not only to be used in a time-specific sense,…
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 3:11 am By Joe 4 Replies
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16 Nov

Diagram

    “We define the abstract machine as the aspect or moment at which nothing but functions and matters remain. A diagram has neither substance nor form, neither content nor…
Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 3:21 pm By Joe 2 Replies
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21 Oct

Overcome

  A situation tends to bring about the specific conditions of its overcoming. Thus advances in transportation and telecommunication technologies are slowly bringing about not only the collapse of the…
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 5:14 pm By Joe 5 Replies
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27 Sep

Mind

Where is truth — in knowledge or learning? If truth is processual, it is therefore also non-definitional; if it therefore exceeds classification, it annihilates a priori any possibility of its…
Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 3:49 pm By Joe 3 Replies
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