The Sublime Object of Ideology – Slavoj Zizek ~PDF of the full 2nd Ed.
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The Sublime Object of Ideology – Slavoj Zizek ~PDF of the full 2nd Ed.
Slavoj Zizek – A Pervert’s Guide to Family “Here, then, is where we are five years later: still unable to locate 9/11 into a large narrative, to provide its “cognitive mapping.” Of course, there is the official story according to which, the permanent virtual threat of the invisible Enemy legitimizes preemptive strikes: precisely because the…
Call for Publications: Verge 6.2 (Infrastructure) This special issue [of Verge] will gather new work from the humanities, arts, and social sciences examining “infrastructure” as concept or material reality in Asia, Asian America, and Asian diasporic communities around the world. We welcome scholarship that explores the relationships between real and conceptual infrastructures, concrete materials and…
Dark Media The key to weird media is that it reveals apophatic visions. Surveillance infrastructure, 404’s and even non-human cameras are all describable, all real, all translatable within the limitations of their media. Thacker says that with weird media ‘all objects inevitably withdraw into things.’ Through weird media, objects are revealed for their ’thinginess.’ This…
The long poem of walking manipulates spatial organizations. No matter how panoptic they may be: it is neither foreign to them (it can take place only within them) nor in conformity with them (it does not receive its identity from them). It creates shadows and ambiguities within them it insets its multitudinous references and citations…
– deadline for submissions: July 31, 2018
Fredric Jameson after the postmodern Awesome…