Category Archive: event

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15 Jul

Transvaluation

Zero is nihilism defeated by itself. The first affirmation is destructive of the negative, the second, creative of the affirmative. Zero shows that “sovereign affirmation,” from which a new vitalism…
Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 7:18 pm By Brian and Asher 1 Reply
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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 Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
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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 Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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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 Joseph Weissman 9 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 Joseph Weissman 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 Joseph Weissman 7 Replies
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09 Sep

Phantasm

  Why is every event a kind of plague, war, wound or death? Is this simply to say that there are more unfortunate than fortunate events? No, this is not…
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 11:45 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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15 Jun

Notes on Totality and Infinity

Does objectivity, whose harshness and universal power is revealed in war, provide the unique and primordial form in which Being, when it is distinguished from image, dream and subjective abstraction,…
Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 3:42 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 Replies
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04 Jun

Counter-mythology

Responsibility is what first enables one to catch sight of and conceive of value. Levinas, Otherwise Than Being 123 Beyond the question of being and non-being, language is not the…
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 1:53 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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24 Mar

Production, Division, Excess: Spinoza, Nietzsche and the Event

The essential is never perceived in sheer multiplicity or in first impressions. Henri de Lubac In Nature there is nothing contingent; all things have been caused by the necessity of…
Monday, March 24, 2008 at 4:03 pm By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
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12 Mar

Affectivity, or What is an Event?

Events are volcanic. The event opens upon an outside, a beyond, a resonant and enigmatic depth. Events move the world, releasing free and untamed vibrations within and without us. They…
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 6:55 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
28 Dec

On the Origin of Duration

Caspar David Friedrich, Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon (1824) On The Origin of Duration (Notes towards a “Genealogy” of Time) Time is invention, or it is nothing. Henri Bergson…
Friday, December 28, 2007 at 5:41 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
23 Oct

Notes on Logic of Sense: Preface, Series 1 and 2, Appendix 1 on Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy

Logic of Sense: Preface Here Deleuze begins by highlighting Carroll and the Stoics for their theory of events; he says that there is a marriage of language and the unconscious…
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 6:07 pm By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
21 Sep

‘The Teacher of the Destruction of the Law:’ Introduction to Alain Badiou’s St. Paul

Badiou, Alain. Saint Paul: The Foundations of Universalism. Trans. Ray Brassier. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003. Badiou starts off his book with an interesting definition of the fable: A ‘fable’ is…
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 10:40 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
21 Sep

Bakhtin’s Chronotopic Events: Notes on Novelistic Space-Time

Bakhtin, Mikhail. “Form of Time and Chronotope in the Novel.” The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Austin: UTP, 1981. 84-258. I apologize ahead of time for the informality…
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 9:48 pm By Taylor Adkins 6 Replies
26 Aug

Identity and Division

Identity Project (Skull Lab), oil on old silkscreen frames (February / March 2006) What is the relation between experience and identity? Clearly, a purely logical account of identity cannot lay…
Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 8:34 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 Replies
08 Aug

Theses on Sexuality and Sense

Propositions (1) Ontology is the geometry of assemblages, and logic the topology of evolving surfaces. (2) The face is the ultimate object of political violence, or counting. (3) Politics precedes…
Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 12:33 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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