Archive for July, 2009

The Emancipated Spectator

Aesthetics and Its Discontents

Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics

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[The following is a guest post from Slavoj Žižek sent to us by Ali Alizadeh who writes, "Apparently the mainstream media has not shown interest in publishing it. Hope that the blogsphere can counteract their tendency." The piece is copy-right free and you should feel free to republish this on your own blog.]
When an authoritarian regime… »

Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France, Harvard UP, 1988.
What can we write on (the history of) invisible microbes? Maybe we can write on how the medical and biological sciences could have dominated and controlled the diseases and the bacteria. Considering that this book, The Pasteurization of France was originally published in France in 1984 with… »

Special issue of Culture Machine vol. 11; http://www.culturemachine.net
edited by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska (both at Goldsmiths,
University of London)
This is a call for papers and non-papers alike. It is open to artists,
intellectuals, writers, philosophers, analysts, scientists, journalists
and media professionals who have something to say about the media that
extends beyond the conventional forms of media analysis…. »