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°The New Inquisition

May 2, 2009

Lots of interesting pieces in the most recent Reartikulacija and Transmediale. Still reading, but from Tatjana Greif’s “Euro-sins and the New Inquisition”:

°me, you, I, my

March 3, 2008

Some of Denise Riley’s beautifully nuanced writings on identification or, maybe better put, on I:

Filed under: Sense + Reading
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°p.123

March 1, 2008

Bryan - of the always-excellent Subtopia - plays p.123 tag, and having piled hangover upon hangover, I imagine, foolishly, this is going to be a quick and easy post.

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

Mine below the fold - and Amie’s and Pom’s, they be tagged.

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Here’s a few things worth reading: an interview with Sergio Bologna, on freelance work, and what he terms the propaganda around ‘knowledge workers’, among other things. Also from Springerin, an interview with Paolo Virno, on ‘immaterial labour’, postfordism, etc. And in MetaMute, Stewart Home on Copenhagen, the ‘creative class’ and demoradical Europa.

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Memes + Reading + Virno
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°operaismo/difference

March 19, 2007

The latest edition of SubStance (36:1) significantly extends the essays from (post-)Operaismo translated into English. Extracts and/or comments in due time, and ask, preferably for specific ones, if you can’t access.

–Christian Marazzi’s “Rules for the Incommensurable”
– Virno’s “On the Parasitic Character of Wage Labor”
– Negri’s “Art and Culture in the Age of Empire and the Time of the Multitudes”
– Franco Berardi’s, “Technology and Knowledge in a Universe of Indetermination” and “Schizo-Economy”
– Lazarrato’s “Strategies of the Political Entrepreneur” and “The Revolutions of Capitalism”
– Antonella Corsani’s, “Beyond the Myth of Woman: The Becoming-Transfeminist of (Post-)Marxism”

Also, in the latest edition of Postmodern Culture, a video (and audio) of a conversation between Spivak and Butler, “A Dialogue on Global States, 6 May 2006″.

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Reading + Multitudes + Virno + Spivak
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°…

February 26, 2007

A new edition of Borderlands. Still perusing, but these look interesting: Deborah Pike’s “Sharon’s Wall and the Dialectics of Inside/Outside”; Nirmal Trivedi’s “Biopolitical Convergences”; James Ross’s “The Promise of Promise”. And, of course, Ayşe Deniz Temiz - who most will already know as Pomegranade in these parts - reviewing Ali Behdad’s A Forgetful Nation.

And I hear terrible news of Contretemps‘ demise. Awful.

Filed under: Biowar + Borders + Constitution + Reading
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°Bordering on in/difference

February 10, 2007

There’s a new book, edited by Sarah van Walsum and Thomas Spijkerboer, titled, Women and Immigration Law: New Variations on Classical Feminist Themes. I’m yet to see a copy, but it looks interesting. It seeks to

Filed under: Biowar + Borders + Reading
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