Category Archive: language

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27 May

Transmission

The emancipation of a line of difference; Movement thinking itself; Becoming-imperceptible; Demonic signatures; Degrowth of vision; Experiment cautiously; All maps are provisional; All nodes are networks The emancipation of a…
Monday, May 27, 2013 at 8:16 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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28 Mar

Eternity

Since before memory, certainly the Greeks, a temporal continuum supervening upon the physical universe delimited the scope of ontological speculation. This delimitation of vision to a vertical axis transpiercing the…
Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 1:34 am By Joseph Weissman 10 Replies
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07 Jan

Mutable

The movement of the signifier through history is toxic, viral, plastic — a fiery line of abolition interposing nullity into intensity, linking pure space to the absolute threshold. It is…
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 9:56 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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22 Jul

Theory 1: Epigrams and Involutions

Theory 1: Epigrams and Involutions “When I’m dreaming back like that I begins to see we’re only all telescopes.” Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake “We have to learn to think differently —…
Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 3:17 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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18 Jul

Differend

Light. Events are not inherently luminescent, but perhaps in a certain light (to careful observers) they may become perceptible. Part of the difficulty of this logic is that the event…
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 9:44 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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11 Jul

Living

What is modern? It can perhaps be discerned in the radical questioning of the status of piety, a questioning which slowly infects every discipline and discourse — a questioning, in…
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 8:26 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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05 Jun

New Serres in English: Biogea from Univocal

“Always the same. This history could make a rock cry from boredom and death. How sad that history seems when faced with the crystalline and floral diversity of things; how…
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 8:54 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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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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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 Joseph Weissman 2 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 Joseph Weissman 12 Replies
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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 Joseph Weissman 6 Replies
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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 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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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 Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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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 Joseph Weissman 4 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 Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
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05 Aug

Ratio

  Between science’s eternal youth, forever sprouting green shoots, and the crumbling timelessness of art’s old age, there may yet emerge a new, a third kind of time, a crossing…
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 12:10 am By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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30 Jul

Implosion

Philosophy begins in aporia, with a paradox or inconsistent consensus. Thus, the most ancient metaphysical figure, which we also recognize as the most simple, the shadow of the parasite upon…
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 9:15 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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22 Jul

Laruelle

Notes on the Preface of Laruelle’s Critique of Deleuze “There is reason to revolt against the philosophers,” this is where philosophy, in its greatest triumph, only further encourages itself. This…
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 6:56 pm By Joseph Weissman 8 Replies
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14 Jul

Immersion

    At the height of its concentration, the art of the [twentieth] century — but also all the other truth procedures, each according to its own resources — aimed…
Monday, July 14, 2008 at 3:57 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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17 Jun

Special Operators

How to begin to understand? Yet what is knowledge but the degeneration of learning? “Knowledgeable” thought waits, jealously, to snatch away our hard-won jewels of real experience — why this…
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 4:25 am By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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08 Jun

Invisible Writing

The outside, or Other, is accorded an incomparable eminence in the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In his penetrating account, metaphysics desires an elsewhere. It persists within an alibi, in which…
Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 2:28 pm By Joseph Weissman 6 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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30 May

Hegel and Universality

[Photograph by Will Godfrey] In an essay Hoffmeister suggests was written in 1808 or 1809, Hegel — certainly not without some irony — identifies an important ethical connection between abstract…
Friday, May 30, 2008 at 6:54 pm By Joseph Weissman 8 Replies
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29 May

Outside

The relation between me and the other commences in the inequality of terms, transcendent to one another, where alterity does not determine the other in a formal sense… It is…
Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 5:32 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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27 Apr

The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: Towards an Ethics of Expression

Introduction: Rationality and Affect The lofty prize Of science lies Concealed today as ever! He has no thought To him it’s brought To own without endeavor! Goethe, Faust (1st part,…
Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 10:04 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
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15 Apr

Wandering Shadows: Reflections on Morality and Madness

In the disparity between the awareness of unreason and the awareness of madness, we have, at the end of the eighteenth century, the point of departure for a decisive movement:…
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 1:55 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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09 Apr

Minority

The scientific enterprise of extracting constants and constant relations is always coupled with the political enterprise of imposing them on speakers and transmitting order-words. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus…
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 10:58 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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20 Mar

Modern

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. Miguel de Unamumo Modernity is a mass exhumation, plunging multiple, trembling, accelerating tunnels into the depths of…
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 2:18 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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09 Mar

Meta-ontology

It is impossible to conceive the assemblage of a scientific experiment apart from a field that generates plans and topological, mathematical, axiomatic and computational descriptions. But sign-machines can function equally…
Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 8:22 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
04 Mar

Expressive Networks

expressive networks towards a new diagrammatic model for the abstraction and representation of relational knowledge How can we apply distributed network theory to knowledge representation? In this paper, we advance…
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 11:22 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
03 Mar

Imperceptible

“Regimes of signs are not based on language, and language alone does not constitute an abstract machine, whether structural or generative. The opposite is the case. It is language that…
Monday, March 3, 2008 at 11:35 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
20 Feb

For Lacan

The question of vigilance is important. It is as if a demon plays a game with your attention [lit. “watchfulness.”] Lacan To identify a “subject” is not only difficult, but…
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 2:19 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
06 Feb

The Language Mechanism: Notes on de Saussure

A language thus has this curious and striking feature. It has no immediately perceptible entities. And yet one cannot doubt that they exist, or that the interplay of these units…
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 7:51 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
02 Feb

Thinking Cybernetics

(Matt Dixon) Thinking Cybernetics: Mapping the Intersections between Metaphysics, Technology, Biopolitics (abstract for panel) The purpose of this panel is to gather together ideas, perspectives, and questions from a diverse…
Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 4:29 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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