Jaco in the bin
Jacobin’s embrace of the far Right has been some time in the making
The hucksters of discontent
Naomi Klein has a piece in the Guardian which is fairly indicative of an argument being made by various socialists and social democrats in moments such as this. Her argument, put simply, is that while racism and misogyny were indeed factors in Trump’s election, it is really ‘neoliberalism’ – the ‘rise of the Davos class’…
Making evidence and the art of uncertainty
Evidence is a process. Not so according to legal realism, but perhaps a little more so according to legal superrealist accounts of the legal arts.
Legal superrealism
The Expanse, s01. (cr. James S A Corey, 2015) The laws of physics: gravity and the theory of relativity. Sicario (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2015. Track). The law of contracts. Making a Murderer (dirs. Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, 2015). The laws of evidence and the confessional. How to Get Away With…
Visualisation
Visibility is tactical.
Contracts, Contagion and Infrastructures
So there have been a few projects ongoing, though few postings on the blog. In lieu of that, a linkdump of sorts.
Spinoza’s joint-stock theory of the affects
Spinoza’s understanding of the affects can illuminate much, but I do not think it amounts to a critical or radical politics of the affective. So while I finish a post on the politics of affect that is more to do with current theories and politics around affect, I thought I would reiterate some of the…
antifa
Abbott’s Flatland
An extract from Tony Robbin’s Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought, on Edwin Abbott’s Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Enjoy.
Zero-hour for Fordist union strategies
Zero-hour contracts have been in the news quite a bit lately. Here are some recent links:
Decolonizing #Occupy?
If ‘decolonizing’ the theories and practices around #occupy are to have any meaning, then presumably that involves being serious about the ways in which the reigning concepts of Western philosophy continue to shape a sense of politics, economics and, not least, the re/production of the capitalist form of value.
