°Oikopolitics

January 20, 2009

A couple of paragraphs of an essay - “Oikopolitics, and Storms” - I just hit send on last night. On Fordism and post-Fordism, the coincidence of financial and climatic crises, environmental audits, war and more - but in a more specific sense an argument about why it might be better to think these and other questions through the wider, more complex lens of oikopolitics along with the more narrow (though purportedly neutral) concepts of biopolitics, affect or labour.

Filed under: Biowar + Borders + Machiavelli + materialism-aleatory + Arendt + Lucretius + theologico-politico
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°Tempest

November 9, 2008

Giorgione’s pastoral has come to be known as “The Tempest”, though also as “the little landscape on canvas with the storm, with the gypsy and soldier”.

Filed under: Machiavelli + Lucretius
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°apo-calypso

August 1, 2008

I keep bumping into literary references, or perhaps they bump into me. Sometimes more literally than literary and so more bumpy than I’d like, or the references are more acutely visceral than I’d prefer. At other times with surprise and delight, or simply as a prompt to overtly read what is sensed, is there.

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Sense + Movement + Necropolitics + materialism-aleatory + Lucretius
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°Sensus

July 30, 2008

Some A fragment from Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, for skin.

Filed under: Sense + materialism-aleatory + Lucretius
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°…

June 27, 2008

What is the nature of this act [….]

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Lucretius
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°Iphigenia at Aulis

July 12, 2006

Just wondering - has anyone read Sean Alexander Gurd’s Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology? A rather glowing review at Symploke, and of some interest to me in reading Lucretius, considerations of the mos maiorum and the like … not to mention the current cylon preoccupation and all. An excerpt from the review

Filed under: Reading + Lucretius
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°Schmitt, at a tangent

June 7, 2006

What follows are fragments, with some modification, pulled from notes for a longer study on Lucretius, which explains the Latin turns and preoccupations – they barely amount to a reading of Schmitt’s “The Theory of the Partisan”, from which my attention kept veering. Xposted to the Long Sunday symposium, which continues for the rest of the week, and likely to have more sustained engagements with Schmitt than offered here.

Carl Schmitt is not, I think, the 20th century’s most persistent philosopher of the political but of the mos maiorum – which is to say, politics conceived as the inheritance, codification and preservation of a ‘way of life’. In Schmitt’s writings, as in Lucretius’s time, the mos maiorum ascends to conceptual reverence in the midst of and as a symptom of its crisis.

Filed under: Necropolitics + Schmitt + Lucretius
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