July 2012
33 posts
“The verb is the indispensible condition for all discourse; and whenever it does...”
– Foucault, The Order of Things, p. 103.
Writing "often it is the only thing between you... →
Life's What You Make It: Vitalism and Critique....
“Life’s What You Make It: Vitalism and Critique” (via philosophyandtheory)
[…] “What I am tracing is a strange mimicry and replication of the operation of critique, and its fate, by this political vitalism. The very stridency by which critique is condemned in the name of Life is suggestive of the parallel by which vitalism comes to replace, or try to replace,...
“… representationalism is a practice of bracketing out the significance of...”
– Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
Sometimes, you just love certain passages from a book - this is one of them.
(via dissemination)
Vulnerability and sociability - Butler, via...
“Thus our vulnerability, the fact that we can be so easily injured or harmed, gives rise to recognition of dependency, which in turn can be productive of new forms of sociability. Recognition from the other is what enables us to have a subjectivity, to have an ‘I’. It is also what makes us social, we are ‘constituted in cultural norms’ (Butler 2004a: 45). Vulnerability and mourning both...
“(Negri): In your book on Foucault, and then again in your TV interview at INA,...”
– (via senseexperiencedesire)
