君子不器
plane of immanence Deleuze’s central project is to invent new images of thought to put in place of the classical system of representation of theoretical thought. For D+G, philosophy is at once the creating of concepts and instituting of the plane of immanence. (What is Philosophy?, p.41) (see also science / philosophy) According to Deleuze,…
Dark tourism: why murder sites and disaster zones are proving popular with travellers Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Cambodia: At a former high school that was used by the Khmer Rouge as the notorious S-21 prison during the 70s, visitors can walk through cells still containing the rusted chairs and beds where as many as 20,000…
Dark Ecology – Interview with Timothy Morton on counter-productive environmental thinking, overcoming species fixation, and solidarity with the non-human “Ecology without nature”—that was the provocative call to arms from literary scholar and philosopher Timothy Morton a good ten years ago, shaking up a discursive field previously still dominated by a largely romantic image of nature…
John Berger “Ways of Seeing” all 4 John Peter Berger (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic, novelist, painter, poet and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university…
The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility The social significance of film, even-and especially-in its most positive form, is inconceivable without its destructive, cathartic side: the liquidation of the value of tradition in the cultural heritage. This phenomenon is most apparent in the great historical films. It is assimilating ever more advanced…
Controversial LegalFling app creates legally binding sex contracts Not sure what to think of this app idea, but in some weird way I guess it makes sense.