Recent content by sixbillionbodies

Proust, Borges.

It was shown at my university last year. I didn't find that it wasted my time, but that's probably because I don't find that Heidegger wastes my time. It's beautifully shot. I think the director (who spoke quite eloquently after the screening) was going for a structure that could do justice to...

An acquaintance of mine joined Landmark a year or so ago and has consistently maintained a terrifying level of enthusiasm about it ever since. It's gotten to the point where he has alienated many of his friends, but I enjoy it when he spouts. There's something about proselytisers that fascinates...

I'm travelling to Japan for the first time next week with my band. Can anyone recommend good galleries to visit for contemporary art in Tokyo? I'm already planning on going to the Museum of Contemporary Art to see the Cartier Foundation thing. I'm pretty excited about this but I imagine there...

I think it's interesting to see the different reactions it causes. Some people have that couch consignment and others tend to buzz. I'm of the latter category, and this is why I have a somewhat ambivalent relation to the stuff, because when I smoke these days then it means no sleep for fucking...

Right, okay, sorry. I think you may be right to say that the only subject in Agamben is homo sacer, but this is precisely why he wants to break out of the model. For Agamben this involves a final escape from fatefulness, destiny and every figure of the subject understood in terms of the...

That's the Benjamin. I agree that it's difficult, and it's something I've been trying to get my head around for the past few months. The prologue to Benjamin's Origin of German Tragic Drama is an important source here, though it's not exactly a walk in the fucking park itself. His Task of the...

One way of looking at this would be to draw an analogy between the Agambenian critique of biopolitics and the Heideggerean critique of technology. Heidegger isn't simply calling for some sort of neo-paganistic outright rejection of technology (though unfortunately he is often read in this way)...

...in all honesty I feel even a shadow council would be driven by the same root causes as everything else. Exactly. The one thing we can take from conspiracy theories about 9/11 is the very legitimate point that the event was in an important sense perfectly in the interests of the US...

I am from Canberra.

I've been working through Badiou over the past few months and I have to say I'm surprised: all this rhetoric about a 'return to truth' that gets thrown around in relation to him is a little off the mark. Yes, Badiou refuses to abanon the T-word, but his conception of truth is not as nostalgic as...

pale hopalong I'm new here. Hi and whatever, etc. 'Famous' poets I've been reading: Celan (in translation, unfortunately), Stevens (always), John Ashbery (beautiful), Michael Palmer (though his newer work disappoints). Two lesser known poets worth checking out: M Sarki. His book Zimble...