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Museum of AccidentsMuseum of AccidentsExpanding collections of on-line texts from the most important philosophers and theorists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Original sources, no paraphrasing. All content, no editorial. Passionately collected, happily shared. Articles
Paul Virilio. "The Vision Machine," 1994.
2008-05-24 05:32:00 Excerpt, Ch. 3: Public Image, pg. 37:The moment high-speed photography was invented, making cinema a concrete possibility, the problem of the paradoxically real nature of 'virtual' imagery was in fact posed. Any take (mental or instrumental) being simultaneously a time take, however minute, exposure time necessarily involves some degree of memorisation (conscious or not) according to the speed of exposure. Hence the familiar possibility of subliminal effects once film is projected at over 60 frames a second. The problem of the objectivization of the image thus largely stops presenting itself in terms of some kind of paper or celluloid support surface - that is, in relation to a material reference space. It now emerges in relation to time, to the exposure time that allows or edits seeing.linkAdd to: | blinklist | del.cio.us | digg | yahoo! | furl | rawsugar | shadows | netvouz More About: Machine , Paul , Vision
Gilles Deleuze, "Expressionism in Philosophy."
2008-02-24 06:04:00 Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy . New York: Zone Books, 1990.From The Theory of Finite Mode, pg. 324:One and the same move reduces Being to the platitude of infinite perfection, things to the platitude of quantities of reality, ideas to the platitude of real causality -- and rediscovers all the depth of the world, but this, then, in an incomprehensible form.http://www.mediafire.com/?k1z3ndn7gg zAdd to: | blinklist | del.cio.us | digg | yahoo! | furl | shadows | netvouz
Alain Badiou, Lecture at the European Graduate School, 2006. video
2007-11-02 20:00:00 Recorded for the EGS Media and Communication Studies department program. Saas-Fee, Switzerland, 2006.Badiou discusses the relationships amongst democracy, philosophy, and the Left. Add to: | blinklist | del.cio.us | digg | yahoo! | furl | rawsugar | shadows | netvouz More About: Video , Graduate , European , School , Graduate School
Louis Althusser, "For Marx." Parts I & II.
2007-10-31 05:49:00 Orig. published by Penguin, 1969.Excerpt, ... [T]he explanatory model goes like this: 'the various elements of the superstructure act and react on one another to produce an infinity of effects. These effects can be assimilated to an infinity of accidents (infinite in number and with an inner connexion so remote and therefore so difficult to discover that it is negligible ), amid which 'the economic movement ' asserts itself. These effects are accidents, the economic movement is necessity, their necessity.... What is remarkable in this text is the role it attributes to the different elements of the superstructure. It is just as if, once the action-reaction system was set in motion between them, they were charged with finding a basis for the infinite diversity of effects (things and events, as Engels puts it) between which, as if between so many accidents, the economy picks its sovereign way.In other words, the elements of the superstructure do have an effectivity, but this effec... More About: Louis , Parts , Marx
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2007-10-14 07:00:00 Jean Baudrillard - Disneyworld Company Gilles Deleuze, "The Body, the Meat and the Spirit: Becoming Animal." Eng More About: Links
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2007-10-11 07:00:00 Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulations - VIII. The Implosion of Meaning in the Media Time Out New York: “30/40” at Marian Goodman Gallery Benjamin Buchloh curating Time Out New York: Christian Boltanski, 6 Septembres. at Marian Goodman Gallery More About: Links
Gilles Deleuze, "The Body, the Meat and the Spirit: Becoming Animal." Engli
2007-10-04 17:32:00 Originally published as Le Corps, la Viande et l'Esprit, le Devenir-animal in Francis Bacon (Paris: Editions de la Diffèrence, 1981) Ppg. 19-22. English edition: in Tracy Warr (ed.) The Artist's Body , Trans. by Liz Heron. (Phaidon Press: London, 2000) Ppg. 197.___Instead of formal correspondences, what Bacon's painting constitutes is a zone of the indiscernible, of the undecidable, between man and animal. Man becomes animal, but he does not become so without the animal simultaneously becoming spirit, the spirit of man, the physical spirit of man presented in the mirror as Eumenides or fate. This is never a combination of forms, it is rather a common fact: the common fact of man and animal.___... [T]he mouth acquires that power of de-localization which turns all of the meat into a head without a face. It is no longer a specific organ, but the hole through which the entire body escapes, and through which the flesh drops (what is required for this procedure of loose involuntary ma... More About: Meat , Animal , The Spirit , The Body
Alain Joxe, "l'Empire du Chaos." french.
2007-10-03 06:13:00 From Revue du Mauss 2 (no 20), 2002. Ppg. 171-177. __Face à la « barbarie » des guerres actuelles, si on admet que ses causes sont actuelles, il faut se dire aussi que le pire est toujours possible : on peut imaginer dans certaines conditions que la violence politique se développe comme un enfer rationnel, organisé dans une lumière froide et dont les responsables accepteraient de pratiquer la cruauté sans haine et sans crainte. Link More About: French , Chaos
Antonin Artaud, “Le Théâtre et son Double.” Oeuvres Complètes. Frenc
2007-10-03 05:11:00 Antonin Artaud, “Le Théâtre et son Double .” Oeuvres Complètes. Paris: Gallimard, 1964.Provided as text by the ARTFL FRANTEXT project at the University of Chicago.Préface: Théâtre et CultureLe Théâtre et la PesteMise en Scène et MétaphysiqueLe Théâtre AlchimiqueSur le Théâtre BalinaisThéat, Oriental Théat, OccidentEn Finir avec des Chefs d’OeuvreLe Théâtre et la CruautéLe Théâtre de la CruautéLettres sur la CruautéLettres sur la LangageLe Théâtre de la CruautéUn Athlétisme AffectifDeux NotesLe Théâtre de la Cruauté, ppg. 110____En d'autres termes, le théâtre doit poursuivre, par tous les moyens, une remise en cause non seulement de tous les aspects du monde objectif et descriptif externe, mais du monde interne, c'est-à-dire de l'homme, considéré métaphysiquement. Ce n'est qu'ainsi, croyons-nous, qu'on pourra encore reparler au théâtre des droits de l'imagination. Ni l'humour, ni la poésie, ni l'imagination, ne veulent rien dire, s... More About: Toni
Alain Joxe, "l'Empire du Chaos." french.
2007-09-26 16:00:00 From Revue du Mauss 2 (no 20), 2002. Ppg. 171-177.excerpts:__Face à la « barbarie » des guerres actuelles, si on admet que ses causes sont actuelles, il faut se dire aussi que le pire est toujours possible : on peut imaginer dans certaines conditions que la violence politique se développe comme un enfer rationnel, organisé dans une lumière froide et dont les responsables accepteraient de pratiquer la cruauté sans haine et sans crainte. More About: French , Chaos
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2007-09-26 07:00:00 Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction Skeptical Linguistics Immunology Apres L'Empire More About: Links
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2007-09-25 07:00:00 The_Routledge_Companion_to Postmodernism //humilhação// Surplus/Spinoza/Lacan Zizek: e-texts Cambridge Companion to Levinas Philosophy @ Panopticweb: Foucault More About: Links
Michel Foucault. "Technologies of the Self." English.
2007-09-25 03:51:00 Originally published:Martin, L.H. et al. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault . London: Tavistock, 1988. Ppg.16-49.excerpts; page 11:__[T]he main features of both [the Catholic and Reform traditions] are an ensemble of truth obligations dealing with faith, books, dogma, and one dealing with truth, heart and soul. Access to truth cannot be conceived of without purity of the soul. Purity of the soul is the consequence of self-knowledge and a condition for understanding the text; in Augustine: Quis facit vertatem (to make truth in oneself, to get access to the light). __...[I]n order to get access to the light, the church conceived of illumination: the disclosure of the self. The sacrament of penance and the confession of sins are rather late innovations. More About: English , Logi
Michel Foucault: "Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia."
2007-09-25 02:31:00 - Text taken from a series of six lectures given by Foucault at the University of California at Berkeley, October through November of 1983.- Republished: Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series, 2001.- This text ed. J. Pearson, 1985, later transcripted for the web; however, footnotes and bibliography added by Pearson are missing.excerpts; Ch. 3—Parrhesia and the Crisis of Democratic Institutions: __The primary danger of liberty and free speech in a democracy is what results when everyone has his own manner of life, his own style of life . For then there can be no common logos, no possible unity, for the city.__Following the Platonic principle that there is an analogous relation between the way a human being behaves and the way a city is ruled, between the hierarchical organization of the faculties of a human being and the constitutional make-up of the polis, you can see very well that if everyone in the city behaves just as he or she wish... More About: Truth , Atiz , Ruth
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La Jetée
2007-09-03 00:20:00 Shot in 1962, this 28-minute film consists entirely of elaborately pieced-together photomontage, and the post-nuclear war Paris it depicts is one of dreams, and of nightmares.
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2007-08-27 07:00:00 Gadamer, "Reason in the age of science'. gadamer Future Feeder More About: Links
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Jean Baudrillard, "Simulacra and Simulations."
2007-08-19 08:49:00 Originally published in Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster. Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1988; ppg. 166-184.Selections: If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where, with the decline of the Empire this map becomes frayed and finally ruined, a few shreds still discernible in the deserts - the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction, bearing witness to an imperial pride and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, rather as an aging double ends up being confused with the real thing), this fable would then have come full circle for us, and now has nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.l... Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer prece... More About: Jean , Jean Baudrillard , Drill , Lard
Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author".
2007-08-19 06:00:00 Trans. Richard HowardAvailable through UbuWeb | UbuWeb Papers; originally published in Aspen no. 5+6, "Three Essays."Selections: We know that a text does not consist of a line of words, releasing a single "theological" meaning (the "message" of the Author -God), but is a space of many dimensions, in which are wedded and contested various kinds of writing, no one of which is original: the text is a tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture. Like Bouvard and Pecuchet, those eternal copyists, both sublime and comical and whose profound absurdity precisely designates the truth of writing, the writer can only imitate a gesture forever anterior, never original; his only power is to combine the different kinds of writing, to oppose some by others, so as never to sustain himself by just one of them; if he wants to express himself, at least he should know that the internal "thing" he claims to "translate" is itself only a readymade dictionary whose words can ... More About: Death , Roland , The A , Barth
Michel Foucault, "Discipline and Punish": "Panopticism".
2007-08-17 22:50:00 Published: Disc ipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books 1995, ppg. 195-228.Originally translated by Alan Sheridan, 1977.Selections from Part III; Discipline:The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.It is an important mechanism, for it automatizes and disindividualizes power. Power has its principle not so much in a person as in a certain concerted distribution of bodies, surfaces, lights, gazes; in an arrangement whose internal mechanisms produce the relation in which individuals are caught up. The ceremonies, the rituals, the marks by which the sovereign's surplus power was manifested are useless. There is a machinery that assures dissymmetry, disequilibrium, difference. Consequently, it does not matter who exercises power.... [I]t does not matter what motive animates [the power-seeker]: the curio... More About: Unis , Foucault , Nish
Roland Barthes, "The Discourse of History."
2007-08-07 08:29:00 Trans. Stephen Bann. Originally published in Comparative Criticism, 3 (1981): 7-20. Excerpts (my emphasis added):The word can convey with economy a situation or a sequence of actions; it aids structuring to the extent that, when it is projected on to the level of content, it forms in itself a small-scale structure ...The very act of naming, which enables the discourse to be strongly articulated, is a reinforcement of its structure. Strongly structured histories are histories which give an important place to the substantive ...... The processes of history in themselves (however they happen to be developed through the use of terminology) pose an interesting question- among so many others, that of their status. The status of a process may be affirmative, negative or interrogative. But the status of historical discourse is uniformly assertive, affirmative. The historical fact is linguistically associated with a privileged ontological status ... historical discourse is not acquainted wi... More About: History , Roland , Barth , Bart , Disc
Alain Badiou; "Existence & Death".
2007-08-07 08:22:00 Trans. Nina Power and Alberto Toscano. Orig. published in Discourse 24.1 (2002) 63-73. Access provided by Columbia University.Excerpt:Finally, existence and death, logical parameters of what in a situation, comes to appear, are only thinkable insofar as one passes through the ontological theory of the pure multiple (mathematics of sets) and through the logical theory of the relations of identity (mathematics of categories). Exist ence and death name the interval of these two superimposed mathematics. Pertaining at once to being, the immutable entanglement of thinkable multiplicities, and to appearance, the power of localization of intensities, to exist and to die are modes of being-there. More About: Death , Alain Badiou , Adio , Existence
Audio: Bertrand Russell, "Problems in Philosophy."
2007-08-05 11:51:00 Originally published 1912. Selections read by Michael Scott; series produced by Thoughtaudio.com. More About: Philosophy , Audio , Problems , Russell , Tran
Michel Foucault, "My Body, This Paper, This Fire."
2007-07-26 22:49:00 Originally published: The Oxford Literary Review 4:1 (Autumn 1979), pp. 5-28. Trans. Geoff Bennington. Republished in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology. J. Faubion, ed., (New York: New Press, 1998), pp. 393-417.Selection; page 413 in 5. The Extravagance of Painters:... Descartes fully faces up to the risk of madness; not as you pretend in a prefatorial and almost marginal way with reference to some business about jugs and naked kings, but at the very heart of his philosophical enterprise, at the precise moment where his discourse, separating itself form all natural considerations on the errors of the senses or the engorgements of the brain, takes on its radical dimension in hyperbolic doubt and the hypothesis of the evil genius.That is where madness is called into question and faced up to; with the evil genius i indeed suppose that i am even more radically mistaken than those who think they have a body made of glass—even go so far as persuading myself that two and three do n... More About: Body , Fire , Paper , Foucault , My Body
Michel Foucault, "My Body, This Paper, This Fire."
2007-07-26 22:49:00 Originally published: The Oxford Literary Review 4:1 (Autumn 1979), pp. 5-28. Trans. Geoff Bennington. Republished in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology. J. Faubion, ed., (New York: New Press, 1998), pp. 393-417.Selection; page 413 in 5. The Extravagance of Painters:... Descartes fully faces up to the risk of madness; not as you pretend in a prefatorial and almost marginal way with reference to some business about jugs and naked kings, but at the very heart of his philosophical enterprise, at the precise moment where his discourse, separating itself form all natural considerations on the errors of the senses or the engorgements of the brain, takes on its radical dimension in hyperbolic doubt and the hypothesis of the evil genius.That is where madness is called into question and faced up to; with the evil genius i indeed suppose that i am even more radically mistaken than those who think they have a body made of glass—even go so far as persuading myself that two and three do n... More About: Body , Fire , Paper , Foucault , My Body
Jacques Derrida, "Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression".
2007-07-26 00:38:00 From Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever . Trans. Eric Prenowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.Through continentalphilosophy.orgSelections; Exergue Part II, page 20:Let us encrust a second citation into the exergue. Less typographical than the first, as we said, it nonetheless still maintains a reference to the graphic mark and to repetition, indeed to printing of the typical sort. Recurrent and iterable, it carries literal singularity into figurality. Again inscribing inscription, it commemorates in its way, effectively, a circumcision. A very singular monument, it is also the document of an archive. in a reiterated manner, it leaves fallacious the trace of an incision right on the skin: more than one skin, at more than one age. To the letter or by figure. The foliaceous stratification, the pellicular superimposition of these cutanous marks seems to defy analysis. it accumulates so many sedimented archives, some of which are written right on the epidermis of a body proper, ... More About: Freud , Impress , Impression
Jacques Derrida, "Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression".
More articles from this author:2007-07-26 00:38:00 From Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever . Trans. Eric Prenowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.Through continentalphilosophy.orgSelections; Exergue Part II, page 20:Let us encrust a second citation into the exergue. Less typographical than the first, as we said, it nonetheless still maintains a reference to the graphic mark and to repetition, indeed to printing of the typical sort. Recurrent and iterable, it carries literal singularity into figurality. Again inscribing inscription, it commemorates in its way, effectively, a circumcision. A very singular monument, it is also the document of an archive. in a reiterated manner, it leaves fallacious the trace of an incision right on the skin: more than one skin, at more than one age. To the letter or by figure. The foliaceous stratification, the pellicular superimposition of these cutanous marks seems to defy analysis. it accumulates so many sedimented archives, some of which are written right on the epidermis of a body proper, ... More About: Freud , Impress , Impression 1, 2, 3 |
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