Category Archive: culture

2012-07-30 21.08.41
01 Feb

Exchange

Markets effect the generalized dispersion and annihilation of collective power.  Along with the material inputs to industrial production, labor is brutally dismantled by the process, decrypted, dissolved; we sink into…
Friday, February 1, 2013 at 1:06 am By Joseph Weissman 10 Replies
08 Dec

Nietzsche, Corruption, Exhaustion

In book I, section 23 of Gay Science, Nietzsche deploys a theory concerning the rise of the individual in relation to the signs of corruption in a society. This corruption…
Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 5:43 am By Taylor Adkins 3 Replies
24 Nov

Energy and Culture: Notes on “Postmodern” Science

Science, Information and Time There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. Alfred North Whitehead It…
Saturday, November 24, 2007 at 9:19 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
14 Nov

Nietzsche and the Capture and Domestication of Peoples

  “You shall obey—someone and for a long time: else you will perish and lose the last respect for yourself”—this appears to me to be the moral imperative of nature…
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 3:56 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
13 Nov

The Future of Information

In reality, goals are absent. Nietzsche Rivalry is only a spectacle; it is the state of appearance. Equilibrium is phenomenal, and the distance is real. The law of opposition belongs…
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 5:33 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 Replies
15 Oct

Nomads: Space, Solitude, Science

Royal science is inseparable from a “hylomorphic” model implying both a form that organizes matter, and a matter prepared for the form; it has often been shown that this schema…
Monday, October 15, 2007 at 4:32 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
14 Oct

Time and the Cultural Unconscious: Nietzsche and the Future

Woman at the Window Salvador Dalí, oil on board (1925) What do we understand to be the boundaries of our neighbor: I mean that which he as it were engraves…
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 12:00 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
09 Oct

The Power to Will: Nietzsche and Becoming Free

Reaching Out The will to power is not essentially political; it aims beyond politics towards a more subtle possession. The will to power is articulated as a higher expression of…
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 2:47 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
29 Sep

Nietzsche and Sexual Politics: Energy and Difference in Power Relations

Dionysos and Ariadne We do not generally recognize how temporary our concepts and customs are. Foucault has argued our modern concept of sexuality is rooted inextricably in the specific marriage…
Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 11:30 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
12 Sep

Culture, Language, Multiplicity

The space of a remark is not merely a site for events, but always a sort of home: it plays host to flocks of fragmentary feelings, to parasitic swarms of…
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 6:35 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
04 Sep

A Question for Institutions

Establishment always occurs simultaneously with a change in focus, a reconstitution at a higher level of analysis. The origin of institution lies in an emergent super-organization, capable of responding to…
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at 5:35 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
30 Aug

‘A Chain of Necessary Rings of Culture’: Nietzsche and the Ability of Science

In sections 4 and 5 of Human All Too Human, Nietzsche develops a non-linear train of thought that attempts to analyze and reconstruct the experiences and concepts of religion, art…
Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 8:51 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
28 Aug

Nietzsche and Psychology

Just as the glaciers increase when in the equatorial regions the sun burns down upon the sea with greater heat than before, so it may be that a very strong…
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 10:21 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
22 Aug

Nietzsche’s Historical Chemistry and the International Scene

“Departure requires a rending that rips a part of the body from the part that still adheres to the shore where it was born, to the neighborhood of its kinfolk,…
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 8:16 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
23 Jun

From Nonsense to Sense

Towards a Meta-problematics of Sensitivity 0 / Preface Can we separate sense from situation? If sense is first broached in the rupture of presence– if sense is merely an immanent…
Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 1:27 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
30 Mar

Against Culture

The identity of the same is an equivocation, a place without place. The “I am” is an assertion of allegiance before it attains any sort of meaningful substance, and this…
Friday, March 30, 2007 at 6:44 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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