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Piccolo: March 2014
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Friday, 28 March 2014. Plots Thicken: Time and Text. 8220;it’s for ever the same murmur, flowing unbroken, like a single endless word.". Of congealment. Anyway, this is for another post, prompted by some of what Alain Badiou extracts from "Texts for Nothing". I'd like to preface that with something rather more general. Here is Deleuze on Bergson:. We prefer to take snapshots, to arrest the flow of things. It's convenient to think of things as basically immobile, solid. The camera is in this sense...Ramma...
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Piccolo: February 2014
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Friday, 28 February 2014. The fictions petrified in our language. To express strength or not to do so. But there is no such substratum; there is no "being" behind doing, effecting, becoming; "the doer" is merely a fiction added to the deed: it posits the same event first as cause and then a second time as its effect. The absence of posts in February will hopefully be compensated for in March. The above quote (Nietzsche) as a prelude to the next post. Sunday, 2 February 2014. The Activity of Writing.
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Piccolo: Assemblages of Desire
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Sunday, 22 February 2015. What advertising does is to confiscate for itself the creativity of desire, and to offer it back to us as a ready-made, as manufactured assemblage which it then invites us to consume. This locking down of desire into ready-made significances is, in fact, the opposite of desire. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A blog, mostly on philosophy, literature, and the relationship between the two. Most of what appears here begins with a small glass of coffee (a piccolo. An und für sich.
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Piccolo: October 2014
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Sunday, 26 October 2014. I’ve been reading a number of books on Palestine and the establishment of the state of Israel recently. My grandfather was stationed there after the Second World War, so it’s always been a subject that I’ve read about and returned to. Some years ago a book was published by Joan Peters with the title “From Time Immemorial”. The notion of ‘a people’, is also made to do much more ideological work. It was Gilles Deleuze. The Arab perspective will soon fragment into the variousness of...
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Piccolo: Father
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Monday, 1 December 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A blog, mostly on philosophy, literature, and the relationship between the two. Most of what appears here begins with a small glass of coffee (a piccolo. In a cafe on the way to work, and with notes jotted down in the cafe and then on the tube journey. The idea of the blog is to be a place where these jottings are written up and clarified. View my complete profile. London Review of Books. Ozone: A Journal Of Object Related Studies.
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Piccolo: July 2014
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Sunday, 6 July 2014. From Fargo to Byzantium. The quick and not inaccurate first reply might be that we invest in characters who drive the narrative. When the hapless Lester comes into contact with Malvo, this is the chance conjugation that activates the story proper, and thence does the story follow Malvo like a detective following a lead.Malvo and Chigurh are force fields which disrupt the repetitions of the everyday so that something happen. Where, after fruitlessly seeking answers from a succession o...
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Piccolo: Dexter and Jouissance
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Monday, 8 December 2014. The premise of Dexter. Someone can be happily married, with a good job and many friends, fully satisfied with his life, and yet absolutely hooked on some specific formation ("sinthome") of jouissance. Ready to put everything at risk rather than renounce that (drugs, tobacco, drink.). It is only in this "sinthome" that the subject encounters the density of his being - when he is deprived of it, his universe is empty. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In a cafe on the way to work...
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Piccolo: July 2015
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Monday, 13 July 2015. Rain drops - from a fiction in progress. I remember when my father stopped having weetabix. For breakfast and developed a taste for grapefruit. Not longer after that he died. There was a funny taste in his weetabix. And even though he tried a different packet it was still there, it had been infected with a new taste that he found unpalatable. It made him switch to grapefruit, which he'd never eaten before. Suddenly he liked grapefruit and found weetabix. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Piccolo: May 2015
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Sunday, 24 May 2015. John Berger on Deleuze. Berger lent me a wonderful handmade maquette of Bento's Sketchbook, his only copy, prior to its publication. So Bento's Sketchbook became a fascinating. Glimpse of Berger's Sketchbook, of his annotated prose, of his crossings-out, of his finger-smudged drawings. Of Deleuze's Spinoza: immortalitie et eternite. Recordings of the famed Spinoza class the late philosopher gave at the University of Paris VIII. "What a teacher! Berger said of Deleuze. In a cafe on th...
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Piccolo: John Berger on Deleuze
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Sunday, 24 May 2015. John Berger on Deleuze. Berger lent me a wonderful handmade maquette of Bento's Sketchbook, his only copy, prior to its publication. So Bento's Sketchbook became a fascinating. Glimpse of Berger's Sketchbook, of his annotated prose, of his crossings-out, of his finger-smudged drawings. Of Deleuze's Spinoza: immortalitie et eternite. Recordings of the famed Spinoza class the late philosopher gave at the University of Paris VIII. "What a teacher! Berger said of Deleuze. An und für sich.
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