Thinking on Screen – Films About Philosophers

Antonio Negri – A Revolt that Never Ends BADIOU Derrida: The Documentary Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People Hannah Arendt Jean-Paul Sartre et Simone de Beauvoir Living in the End Times (According to Slavoj Zizek) Marx Reloaded The Ister Adi Shankarachaary Conversation of The World – Valentin Y. Mudimbe and Boaventura de Sousa Santos Мераб Мамардашвили\Merab …

Sick Planet

A Sick Planet — Guy Debord Is racism an environmental threat? — Ghassan Hage The book argues that the classifications and the practices that constitute colonial racism and the practices that have generated the destruction of the natural environment are mutually self-reinforcing because they share a common root: they have a common mode of existence …

Dissent as an Event in Art

Carla Lonzi, Art Critic – Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) – An Excerpt It wasn’t an interest in art, my interest that is, at the beginning, I have to tell the truth, if I retrace the steps from the very beginning it comes out that I immediately had this existential feeling, like a warning from within, but my …

Resistance in the World of Art: New relations between sensibility, form and inform

Siren Song: The Death of Poetry and Commodified Singing

What has always fascinated me about Sirens, whether written of by Euripides, Homer, Ovid or Hesiod, is that no one writes about Siren’s Song. (Todorov, 2010)It is the hour of the discrete siren who refuses in advance to disseminate and cause to vanish truths that are still only in the state of ‘scales or chord …

Philosophy and Politics

Justice is the philosophical name of the inconsistency, for the state, of any equalitarian political orientation. And we can here join the declarative and axiomatic vocation of the poem. For it is Paul Celan who probably gives us the most exact image of what we must understand by ʻjusticeʼ: On inconsistencies Lean:flickin the abyss, in …

The Barbarian Invasions: A Genealogy of the History of Art

The history of art, argues Éric Michaud, begins with the romantic myth of the barbarian invasions. The history of art linked its objects with racial groups—denouncing or praising certain qualities as “Latin” or “Germanic.” The predominance of linear elements was thought to betray a southern origin, and the “painterly” a Germanic or Nordic source. Even …

‘The Political Possibility of Sound’

The themes of these seven essays emerge from and deepen discussions started in Voegelin’s previous books, Listening to Noise and Silence and Sonic Possible Worlds. Continuing the methodological juxtaposition of phenomenology and logic and writing from close sonic encounters, each represents a fragment of listening to a variety of sound works, to music, the acoustic …

Reappraising Tel Quel

It is thus within language, now grasped somehow mathematically as our milieu of transformation, that we must pose the problems that concern us – this is to say, outside of the notion of a character (to the degree to which you, actors, authors and readers of this life, you take yourselves for characters, you give …

Rethinking Realism in times of Trauma and Capitalism

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? 2009 Author: Mark FisherThe book analyses the development and principal features of capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. Traumatic Realism 2000 Author: Michael RothbergAnalyzes the impact of historical …