Wednesday, January 5, 2011

listen to swordsman by gza


When in the course of human events it becomes necessary: spelling disaster.

“It is pointless to argue that the Opposition between the One and the Multiple is ‘static,’ and counter this claim with an assertion of multiplicities “supposed to nourish the unimaginable ‘wealth’ of the movement of thought, the experience of immanence, the quality of the virtual, or the infinite speed of intuition…I consider this vitalist terrorism.” Deleuze, as quoted in Badiou’s The Clamor of Being.


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Any advice the writer may give the reader about writing should be submitted in writing before hand. Yet, from time to time, the writer may wish to purge herself of frivolous and constipated ideas, to stake in the starkest terms the bare notions of an identifying set of beliefs. To put aside the partisan colors of the players in the game, for all belief seems compromised to a partisan, whose irony always wants a sharp and committed perspective.

All intellectuals are public intellectuals. Just recently, the Brooklyn based literary journal N + 1 published an article considering the difference between professional, or New York, writers and the multitude of writers who earn their primary income as an M.F.A professor. This thin homely of professor and professional would seem to name the difference between demographics, class, talent, and commodity production. Contemporary business thinking terms this difference creativity, enterprise, innovation, and most importantly, leadership.

From Restricted to General Economy


This essay is about the possibility of holes. Whether appropriation is total, whether the general economy is an affirmation of the virtual. I am want to say that the point at which sense disseminates solicits or shakes—yet why not say tortures, torsions the expression of the system at such. Perhaps we can say it is the tension between the figures (how to call them as such, we should no doubt question) of Lacan qua Lacanian castration is notoriously an Aufhebung, in which what is lost is really gained: “the physical event (circumcision as a substitute for castration) does not happen as such, but the threat—the Aufhebung of physical into spiritual—allows the phallus to come into being as such, and with it the virile function; just as primal repression is the precondition for the psychic system to function in the first place.”