Brian Price
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The Victim
I think you're absolutely right, Adam. The trouble of identifying oneself as a victim is that administrators will be all too happy to agree. In fact, they expect as much from us well before we even open our mouths. The question of competition, I agre ... -
It seems to me that you, or
It seems to me that you, or perhaps better to say--Electronic Arts--has inverted the logic of the empty signifier, as Laclau conceived of it, insofar as the name is no longer a willed instance of catachresis, but is instead something that merely completes ... -
Re: Bracketologos
Brackets and Maps
This makes me wonder about the cognitive dissonance that brackets bring to our sense of geography, about what the nature of that particular chaos is, precisely. What does it mean--what does it do, for instance--when residents of Las Vegas find themselves ... -
Joe Pa
Hard to disagree, especially given what covered over Sandusky, namely the constant and unironic celebration of a guy unselfconsciously referred to in the media as Joe Pa. Joe. Pa. State, Father, Everyman/Overman. The unrelenting goodness, the near Stalin ... -
Fakes and Contingency
It's really interesting, to me, what's emerged here, namely a relation between contingency and fakery. I hear Rob to be asking whether or not what seems like contingency is in fact something that's already been done--the well practiced surp ...