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agamben again
I’ve been a bad amateur theorist for the past several years. * Attribute it to all-too-close-contact with a whole coterie of noxious lacanians, lording it over peasants like me with late-night...
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the politics of time
I didn’t realize that Peter Osborne’s The Politics of Time is available on-line and in full. Shows how the world’s changed in only a few years. I heard about this book just as I was finishing my PhD...
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militant preciousness
Reading some of the “militant dysphoria” papers that have been posted, the same problems that I’ve been on about a bit re-appear. Adolescent insanity just about sums it up, but to be slightly more...
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notes on militant method
Gabe just left a provocative comment about Zero Books under the “militant preciousness” post: Maybe it’s my fault for having overly high expectations, but there is a common stylistic let down in the...
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third, but generally tautological, culture
Via the Valve, an article in the NYT about what the paper is calling (correct me if I’m wrong – the paper’s been calling) “the next big thing” in literary studies – basically the application of...
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post-theoretical axiom no. 1: “ideology”
The word “ideology” is banned, as it does not exist, not really. It exists only in the way that things like “art in general” exist. Henceforth, we will discuss only “public relations,” the actual...
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zizek and linksfaschismus
I’m not sure there’s a clearer index of the basic intellectual dysfunction of the anglo-american theoretical left than the persistent popularity of Zizek and his work. The dysfunction is this: rather...
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what before what: theory or literature
I’m working on presumably the final revision of the book and I’ve done something a bit strange, something that feels to me both a) just what I want to do and b) bound to cause problems. Basically, if...
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…in the (coming of) age (movie) of its technological reproducibility
Haven’t seen the film yet, but strange, this from the New York Times review of Tiny Furniture: One of the knots that Ms. Dunham requires you to untie while you’re watching “Tiny Furniture” is the...
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“against the grain”: on critical perversity
At the place where I teach, we still have the students do two courses (one at the beginning of their time with us, and one at the end) in “practical criticism.” We don’t call it that (we just call it...
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