Adrian Ivakhiv
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Affect, capitalism, & the big Outside
Thanks, Elena, for bringing up Leys' critique of the "new affect theorists"- and thanks, Michael, for bringing that into the conversation originally. I find Leys' article interesting and useful, not because she demolishes the Massumi-C ... -
wonderful
Thanks for alerting me (/us) to that... I hadn't seen it yet. More to come once I read their responses to each other. ... -
KS wrote: "What I find most
KS wrote: "What I find most interesting, however, is that when they are compiled like this they feel almost empty. The resistant affect is no longer resisting anything, and becomes another affective trope in the chain of coded similitude." I don ... -
The homeopathic & the magical
Thanks for the excellent question, Shane, and thanks, Michael, for your exquisite summary of my longer argument. I'm still catching up with the last 2 days' posts, so this will just be a quick reply to Shane. You're right to ask me to clari ... -
sticky Tarzan
Not, of course, that Tarzan was an artist like Bowie and Lady Gaga... But, then, maybe he was. (And the others, too.) ... -
continuing...
Deleuzians like to say that the brain is a screen/image (or cinema itself). I would say the brain is a magical tool, built for noting connections between things so as to be able to work those connections, and that affect is one of the fluids that runs thr ... -
Acceleration vs. Slack, & the Magic Thereof
Karin- To your question, "Could it be that what you call a ‘hope for the beyond’ is that litte hair that keeps the system going?": Yes, it could be that, since the system relies on maintaining a gap, a dissonance that its subjects are craving to ... -
Magic & Grace Jones
I should define what I mean by "magic" here. I wrote that "the brain is a magical tool, built for noting connections between things so as to be able to work those connections"; and this aspect of seeking correspondences between things ... -
Going more than just Gaga
Celebrity culture and hyper-fashion are very comfortably established within the landscape of capitalism, but they can be used to do some interesting things. I'm sympathetic to Halberstam's (and others') arguments for a Gaga Feminism, as I t ...