c25.incubator

What influences hype? When hype is in full effect ...

2009-07-08T00:04:05.048-07:00

What influences hype? When hype is in full effect it doesn't matter what I say about the Dirty Projectors, but if a TV show came out with the word Cyberspace in the title, it could make possible something else in a little while that uses the word, or maybe this could be another faddish renaming of the interweb

"All of this is to say that I am not even convince...

2009-05-28T11:38:13.374-07:00

"All of this is to say that I am not even convinced that metaphor is the right term for the figure of speech to which Derrida and Nietzsche attribute the linguistic production of truth. For even in Nietzsche’s phrasing, it is only “after long usage” that these “illusions” of meaning “seem to a nation fixed, canonic, and binding.” In other words, the appearance of identity that metaphor would describe between a particular claim to the truth and the truth itself is not ultimately secured by the appropriateness of metaphor, that is, by a convincing appearance of identity between this truth and truth as such, between the imagery used and the thing for which it stands in; this appearance of identity is itself secured by the ongoing exchange of one term for another and the truth-values that accrue to a point at which the “nation” that specializes this economy simply forgets that it is speaking a specialized language and citing a code, that is, forgets it is speaking a jargon. It is secured by the seemingly natural survival of the words themselves in the flux of communal communicability—in short, by the inflationary economics at hand in the physicality of the saying. "
Sutherland, Meghan. “The Word for a Thousand Pictures.” world picture 1, no. 1 (spring 2008). http://english.okstate.edu/worldpicture/WP_1.1/MSutherland.html.

i have no words, other than to say that this post ...

2009-05-22T20:12:05.812-07:00

i have no words, other than to say that this post is brilliant and incredibly poignant at this point in my life. thanks.

what's important here is that it didn't have to in...

2009-04-23T20:00:00.000-07:00

what's important here is that it didn't have to interpellation or subjectivity or anything that implies until you capitulate and that history beats out the alternative histories that formed in the times of your life (eg history of your life from the point of view of a friendship or institution, wherein it's your family that's a peripheral character)

BUT, if you think that interpellation is the only system available (how things Always go), or is a decent description for all processes of identity formation, than this post has no argument.

the movie THX-1138 used numbers to name humans, as...

2009-04-23T19:58:00.000-07:00

the movie THX-1138 used numbers to name humans, as a way to show how dehumanized everyone had become

often people complain that they don't want to be treated as numbers in a system, but as human beings! as if using their name would make this happen all at once...

my other example is opponents of national id card systems are scared this would redefine people into some kind of PIN or barcode

i guess you could argue that the problem in the second 2 examples is that we become entries in a database, but i think we could be entries in a database now, and the issue is whether that becomes the primary way we identify ourselves uniquely.

Why would being referred to as numbers destroy our...

2009-04-21T15:47:00.000-07:00

Why would being referred to as numbers destroy our being? There is a football player who legally changed his name to "Ocho Cinco", the number on his jersey.

everyone, whether they feel like britni is a good ...

2009-04-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

everyone, whether they feel like britni is a good badge for them or not, really likes the internet because it gives them endless opportunities to make up new names for themselves.

Do you do your own artwork?

2009-03-30T14:19:00.000-07:00

Do you do your own artwork?

rss link please

2009-02-17T12:22:00.000-08:00

rss link please

in my dream there was a name for the style of blog...

2008-10-20T00:49:00.000-07:00

in my dream there was a name for the style of blogging in which you always leave the first comment on your own post. someone was explaining it, you have written it all down and are pretty sure it's done, but once you post it, you just realize there's something else.

Examples of untheorized:
1 how to draw a star without lifting the pen
2 how you should treat dirt on your shoulders when entering the house of another
3 the rules/grammar of your native language

i could care less but i don't care enough to do so...

2008-05-05T00:38:00.000-07:00

i could care less but i don't care enough to do so.

hahahahaha!

2008-04-22T18:54:00.000-07:00

hahahahaha!

ok, that settles it. you're now on my blogroll, a...

2008-02-29T10:10:00.000-08:00

ok, that settles it. you're now on my blogroll, as this is a blog without organs.

I really like this.

2008-01-07T22:16:00.000-08:00

I really like this.

"the meaning of the look can be felt to subsist in...

2007-12-16T23:26:00.000-08:00

"the meaning of the look can be felt to subsist in the response..."

I seem to recall having this brief conversation with you:

"Nice socks."
"Thanks."
"They match."
"I know, I did that on purpose."

thanks for subsisting my socks

hell chuk how are you read this

2007-05-12T21:11:00.000-07:00

hell chuk how are you read this

fascinating question!i guess i'm just trying to po...

2007-02-18T19:12:00.000-08:00

fascinating question!
i guess i'm just trying to post an alternaive imagination that poses as more open to radical difference and incommensurability just to expose the arbitrariness of relativism's role in current regime/stuff. by arbitrariness i mean that it has been selected this way and not that it is unpredictable or outside discussion. actually if i said it was arbitrary i think this would be pretty meaningless but still worth being bitter over.

now im really unsure about retconning as a backdoor kind of political analysis, but i figure it's only about as bad as history. another thing i have wanted to include in this or write a 2nd installment about is the relationilty and interconnectedness of relativism, the thing about rhizome vs family tree i guess and that in relativism it's not that, in the theory itself, everything must be connected (tho that might be 'true'), but that relativism functions by comparisons and making connections, which it's theoretical posture excuses and you even feel like you're doing a good job to make a comparison when you're doing the relativist thing.

okay maybe i'm just tired and this should be obvio...

2007-02-13T08:36:00.000-08:00

okay maybe i'm just tired and this should be obvious - but i'm not sure i see where you're going here, so i'm going to ask for clarification: i liked your first point (on the invocation of a consumerist relativism that renders local commodities equivalent but only vis-a-vis the third term of global goods), but then you lost me on the second point (which seemed to be both about relativism as complicit in the production of so-called free and equal jural subjects and also about some incommensurable difference inherent in "forms of human life"). i guess my question then is: do you really need to make the later argument - about incommensurablity and/or radical difference - in order to make the former point regarding relativism as a technique of liberal governance? i.e. can you be both open to the possibility of commensuration despite the aporia of 'universal difference' and also critical of relativism, or are the two points necessarily dependent on each other??

-michal

Life is officially good, you stupid mutherfuckers....

2007-01-04T16:16:00.000-08:00

Life is officially good, you stupid mutherfuckers.

this realization (and the proof you gave for it) solves SO many different puzzles i have been worrying about.

brizzle