Comments on: STRANGE AFFINITY /strange-affinity/ Art and media blog of the unexpected Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:08:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: mason mckibben /strange-affinity/comment-page-1/#comment-1792 mason mckibben Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:30:47 +0000 /?p=8440#comment-1792 I think you got that right! I love your Method and Discipline and your Modesty. Eager to experience your next pieces. I'm working forwards as you go and backwards into your archives. Not very scattershot to my mind. Note to self: Gotta look up Jean Epstein -mason I think you got that right! I love your Method and Discipline and your Modesty. Eager to experience your next pieces. I’m working forwards as you go and backwards into your archives. Not very scattershot to my mind. Note to self: Gotta look up Jean Epstein

-mason

]]> By: Dave /strange-affinity/comment-page-1/#comment-1757 Dave Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:50:35 +0000 /?p=8440#comment-1757 Hi Mason, what often begins as a rather straightforward column, sometimes takes detours into uncharted waters. The terminology you use is not something I am overly familiar with. My background is business, MBA, and there is a lack of nimbleness on my behalf in the high strata of intellectual concepts. However awkward the attempt might be, it is necessary that an effort is made to associate what may appear to be ''simple'' onto a broader intellectual basis; despite a definite lack of schooling on my behalf. Its an intuitive grasp,driven to no small degree by curiosity, and to be honest is a bit trial and error, hit and miss and scattershot. Nonetheless, I can see how large corporations do utilize many academic concepts which toes tend to confirm something I was taught that higher education is, to a greater or lesser degree, a form of tax payer subsidy to corporations. Dave Hi Mason, what often begins as a rather straightforward column, sometimes takes detours into uncharted waters. The terminology you use is not something I am overly familiar with. My background is business, MBA, and there is a lack of nimbleness on my behalf in the high strata of intellectual concepts. However awkward the attempt might be, it is necessary that an effort is made to associate what may appear to be ”simple” onto a broader intellectual basis; despite a definite lack of schooling on my behalf. Its an intuitive grasp,driven to no small degree by curiosity, and to be honest is a bit trial and error, hit and miss and scattershot. Nonetheless, I can see how large corporations do utilize many academic concepts which toes tend to confirm something I was taught that higher education is, to a greater or lesser degree, a form of tax payer subsidy to corporations.
Dave

]]> By: mason mckibben /strange-affinity/comment-page-1/#comment-1734 mason mckibben Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:34:49 +0000 /?p=8440#comment-1734 Do continue. I am on the fence about femininity as it merges with Essentialist thinking. But i tend to value some observations made by folks like Luce Irgaray, specifically "This Sex Which Is Not One 1977, (Eng. trans. 1985)" I should read some of her recent work, but don't know any folks who value work from Essentialist perspectives who might advise me. Apparently, there is an anti Essentialist school now as well but i haven't meet an anti E. who's read Irgaray to advise me on exploring the? an? "Other Side." Your remarks here really help me with Chaplin/Benjamin and the proliferation of Media. You dwell on Art. Having come from structuralism with a dash of deconstruction i should be able to adopt a neutral stance regarding all productions, but increasingly i find myself unable. Hence my appreciation for your style and abilities. Do continue. I am on the fence about femininity as it merges with Essentialist thinking. But i tend to value some observations made by folks like Luce Irgaray, specifically “This Sex Which Is Not One 1977, (Eng. trans. 1985)” I should read some of her recent work, but don’t know any folks who value work from Essentialist perspectives who might advise me. Apparently, there is an anti Essentialist school now as well but i haven’t meet an anti E. who’s read Irgaray to advise me on exploring the? an? “Other Side.”

Your remarks here really help me with Chaplin/Benjamin and the proliferation of Media. You dwell on Art. Having come from structuralism with a dash of deconstruction i should be able to adopt a neutral stance regarding all productions, but increasingly i find myself unable. Hence my appreciation for your style and abilities.

]]> By: Dave /strange-affinity/comment-page-1/#comment-1733 Dave Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:42:54 +0000 /?p=8440#comment-1733 Actually its a line of thinking somewhat like Walter Benjamin and Jean Epstein and I have to admit, the expression of the thought could have been more elaborate and is linked to the ''femininity'' of both. I read something about Deleuze and Guattari on Chaplin. There is a complementary blog on Nonsensegrandcentral.com which I will complete, or make it longer; I,ll explain better the thinking regarding repression on that. hopefully within a day or two and hopefully the D&G analysis will make things clearer for me as well. Actually its a line of thinking somewhat like Walter Benjamin and Jean Epstein and I have to admit, the expression of the thought could have been more elaborate and is linked to the ”femininity” of both. I read something about Deleuze and Guattari on Chaplin. There is a complementary blog on Nonsensegrandcentral.com which I will complete, or make it longer; I,ll explain better the thinking regarding repression on that. hopefully within a day or two and hopefully the D&G analysis will make things clearer for me as well.

]]> By: mason mckibben /strange-affinity/comment-page-1/#comment-1712 mason mckibben Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:35:45 +0000 /?p=8440#comment-1712 "The message that Chaplin effectively conveyed in The Great Dictator was the inherent tendency of fascism to solicit a desire for the repression of desire." "Intrinsically totalitarian but also , by implication, as a precarious violation of heterosexual normalcy; an aesthetic in the political sphere that denies autonomous forms of sense perception and a negation of the individual body as a site of desire and spontaneity." If fascism solicits a desire for repression of desire do you specifically mean hetero desire? And when you speak of the individual body as a site for desire and spontaneity are you in the neighborhood of Deleuze and Guattari, ie any desire that might avow the body as a site? I am somehow increasing lost and confused here, mason “The message that Chaplin effectively conveyed in The Great Dictator was the inherent tendency of fascism to solicit a desire for the repression of desire.”

“Intrinsically totalitarian but also , by implication, as a precarious violation of heterosexual normalcy; an aesthetic in the political sphere that denies autonomous forms of sense perception and a negation of the individual body as a site of desire and spontaneity.”

If fascism solicits a desire for repression of desire do you specifically mean hetero desire? And when you speak of the individual body as a site for desire and spontaneity are you in the neighborhood of Deleuze and Guattari, ie any desire that might avow the body as a site?

I am somehow increasing lost and confused here,
mason

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