Monthly Archives for February 2011

Deus

Alexandr Zholkovkii’s short essay “Deus ex Machina” does not, rather fortunately, succumb so swiftly to the strange (and strikingly out of place) Romanticism that characterizes so many of the other texts that outline what he terms a “poetics of expressiveness”. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

23. February 2011 by Syndicated User
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myth

In Mythologies, Roland Barthes takes up the challenge posed by Ferdinand de Saussure in his Course in General Linguistics: to elaborate “semiology” as what Saussure terms “a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life” (15). … Continue reading → Continue reading →

08. February 2011 by Syndicated User
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destruction

[From my prologue to Rodrigo Naranjo, Para desarmar la narrative maestra: Un ensayo sobre la Guerra del Pacífico.] “Creative Destruction: Ruins, Narrative, and Commonality” Marx and Engels long ago noted that capitalist productivity entails unceasing destruction and destitution. As they … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Althusser

[Some notes on Althusser, taken from Posthegemony.] The everyday, routine, and almost invisible politics of habit contrasts with the often spectacular display that characterizes politics as it is more usually understood. The politics of habit is not the clash of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

01. February 2011 by Syndicated User
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