Etienne Balibar: Politics As War, War As Politics
Etienne Balibar is professor in Paris X Nanterre and University of California, Irvine. He was invited to participate in the first edition of the Dictionary of War but unfortunately could not make it to...
View ArticleFlorian Schneider: Collaboration - some thoughts concerning new ways of...
If one principle could be seen to inform the opaque surface of what in the 1990s was called a "new economy" -- the shifts and changes, the dynamics and blockades, the emergencies and habit formations...
View ArticleDictionary of War #4
War, in the broadest sense, is a battle about the power to define and definitions, that are not carried out at the center of words but at their very margins. But what can words do, as soon as the state...
View ArticleBuilding Sight
From the sarai newsletter: Raqs Media Collective (based at the Sarai Media Lab) opened an exhibition curated by them called “Building Sight” at the Watermans Arts Centre, London on the 29th of June....
View ArticleLouis Althusser: "Aleatory Materialism" or "Materialism of the Encounter"
In his presentation at RT3 on January 11, Nicolas Bourriaud has been referring to a series of texts by Louis Althusser that are introducing the concept of "aleatory materialism". Written between 1982...
View ArticleEtienne Balibar: "Possessive Individualism Reversed - From Locke to Derrida"
Balibar begins his text as follows: "I cannot say if the expression “possessive individualism” was invented by MacPherson in his 1962 book, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism, or if he...
View ArticleEtienne Balibar: My self and my own - one and the same?
"My self and my own" is Etienne Balibar’s exploration of the conceptions of "my self" and "my own" in John Locke’s "Essay on Human Understanding". In a review for "Political Theory" Chris Pierson...
View ArticleLaura Mulvey: The possessive spectator
"The ‘possessive spectator’ [Laura Mulvey] describes is a fetishist who ‘wounds the film object in the process of love and fascination’ but also ‘reinvent(s) its relations of desire and discovery’ (p....
View ArticleGilles Deleuze: "Immanence: A life"
"We will say of pure immanence that it is A LIFE, and nothing else. [...] A life is the immanence of immanence, absolute immanence: it is complete power, complete bliss." This is not some abstract,...
View ArticleFlorian Schneider: A Matter of Theft: Notes on the Art of Stealing a Soul
The text below is a collection of thoughts and notes on the art of the "Stealing of Souls" which I wrote a few weeks ago for the manifesta7 catalog. At the same time it acts as the initial statement...
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