The History of Critical Theory
3 Dec
Time
28 Nov
Its been a while since i put anything up here. Here are some nice photos of the inner workings of some time pieces by Guido Mocafico.
Hansel and Gretel
12 Dec
the BBC will be airing a new staging of the Brothers Grimm classic, featuring children’s corpses hanging in an abattoir-like larder, has proved so terrifying that the Royal Opera House recommends it is not suitable for children under the age of eight.
Paul Virilio
1 Nov
There are certain thinkers whose theories have such resonance in our current time that they offer us some semblance in the chaos we find ourselves trying to navigate through and make sense of. Not that they offer up an Utopian narrative to give hope. Rather, what comes forth in their writings are ideas and explanations that illuminate paths that help ourselves find our own sense of meaning in the world around us.
Paul Virilio is one man whose writing are a shamanistic summoning forth of the demonology of speed which inscribes society”…”the double meaning of apocalypse — cataclysm and remembrance. Cataclysm: “…history of the technological death – instinct moving at the speed of light.” Remembrance: “…a thinker whose ethical dissent marks the first glimmerings of a fateful implosion of that festival of seduction, fascination, terror, and boredom we have come to know as digital culture”