°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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°A Real Prince

November 5, 2008

There are a few people I would have like to have seen speak, but missed. One of them was Lauren Berlant in Melbourne. By all accounts wonderful. Another was Saskia Sassen, who I’ve heard/seen before, but to see her talk about now “[h]aving a significant Starbucks presence is a pretty significant indicator of the degree of connectedness to the form of highly caffeinated, free-spending capitalism that got us into this mess.” “This mess”, presumably, implying the current calamities around banking and finance.

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Memes + Machiavelli + theologico-politico
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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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°XI

April 3, 2008

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. - Marx, “Theses On Feuerbach”.

Thesis Eleven – what is ‘the point’? What is at stake? Eleventh - that moment beyond the neat ten, in excess of the theological commandments. Karl Marx’s eleventh comment on Feuerbach, while very far from being, as it is so often read to be, the purportedly a-theoretical pragmatic command which forestalls asking any significant or difficult questions about ‘how things are’ or, even less, amounting to a dialectics which seeks to project idealised versions of what exists into an infinite future, is nevertheless equivocal enough to have enabled interpretations of such varieties. Such are the contingencies of writing and reading, to be sure.

Filed under: Labour + Escape + Benjamin + Marx + theologico-politico
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