Though their reading seems a little forced, Fred Newman and Lois Holzman of the East Side Institute are finding Marx (specifically, The German Ideology) useful for developing a “revolutionary” performance social therapeutics:
“Our own work can be described as an effort to make therapeutics a way of life. We also describe our work as building community [...]
In the 90s, when multiculturalism had the Right on the ropes, racism, so the story goes, was forced to move between-the-lines (of populist conservative discourse). As Žižek observes in The Universal Exception:
“In the election campaigns of Jesse Helms, the racist and sexist message is not publicly acknowledged — at the public level, it is sometimes [...]
The problem with this “experiment” is that the second question put to the executive - ‘This business plan will maximize profits but help the environment’ - does not correspond to the first question (’This business plan will maximize profits but harm the environment’). It’s a false, forced analogy - with predictable results.
There’s a good reason [...]
17 to 18 April 2009
Binghamton, NY, United States
Website: http://pic.binghamton.edu/
Contact name: Hilary Malatino
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This conference seeks to explore the interconnectedness of technology,
relationality and practices of resistance. We conceptualize technology
broadly, as referring to systems, methods of organization, visual/imaging
techniques, and political strategies and tactics, as well as to specific
material objects and systems of objects [...]
From Soviet montage to the Memorex mix tape, leftist Western thinkers have proudly declared their membership to a “sample culture.” Remix theory, the latest version, keeps the candle burning bright. Like its predecessors, it attempts to found an aesthetic regime on the claim that the explicit selection of texts – sampling in music, collage in [...]
Paul De Man notes Harold Bloom’s insight that with respect to one poet’s influence on a later one, “the encounter must take place and that it takes precedence over any other events, biographical or historical, in the poet’s experience.
This means that texts originate in contact with other texts rather than in contact with the events [...]
Translation studies: a traditional theory stretching back to Schliermacher and still very much with us, frames the central question as: if all translation is “bringing over,” what is being translated and where is it going? Does the translator bring the “target” language to the “source” language, or vice versa? Whats at stake in any given [...]
Clicking through the available portions of Mark David Johnston’s The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull: Lay Learning and Piety in the Christian West (London: Oxford University Press, 1996) I stumbled onto Llull’s concept of affatus, which makes the unusual claim that language is a ’sense’, a sixth sense. Now, while I can’t say that I’m [...]
Cesarotti’s essay on Macpherson, Ossian, and the construction of the folk compilation foregrounds the proleptic – i.e. historically retroactive – effects of the relation between a ‘cultural production’ and the identities produced. My review of Cesarotti’s narrative to this extent concluded with the observation that though Ossian was assembled according to problematic and by no [...]
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