Tag Archives: Gilles Deleuze

normal: what them worry?

Stiff necked? For sure. The perils of Pauline in the desert is clear evidence of that, an unruly nature not easily buying into the coach’s plans for victory and redemption,perhaps setting the seeds for the later exile. But today is … Continue reading

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take five with the marquise

Disrupted momentum.  A plot, a narrative incident, a moment of the dramatic lending momentum to the whole: Precisely those elements mostly absent in our daily lives, replete as they are with what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics,” confused, shambling and … Continue reading

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between five and six: cruising with the marquise

The Marquise Went Out at Five. Claude Mauriac put together a fine conception, worked out with a skill that few novelists have the patience or the delicacy to apply.This concept of time that knows neither past, present nor future and … Continue reading

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languid luxury: the quicksand complex

Inertia as the root of evil. Is it the same as laziness? What to make of leisure present in the ideologized function of art where an aesthetic of laziness seems connected to the notion of conspicuous consumption, comparative preferences and … Continue reading

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brothers in arms: miles from nowhere

Ironic. Kafka’s writing was centered around the concept of non-belonging and by extension, about belonging too much. Almost an adversarial relationship with Maimonides golden mean, the elusive middle. Better to poke emotional catastrophe in the groin and hear he roar … Continue reading

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automatic pilot

Our lives are literally, virtually, based on software. Financial markets are regulated by software. Government is run on software. The military is dependent on software. Financial indexing is dominated by four companies, and despite a bit of fudging, it is … Continue reading

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suspicious models of vision: invisible and anonymous

Like H.G. Wells’s The Invisible Man where a scientist discovers a means of making himself invisible, and in the process becomes an insane murderer. Invisibility. Anonymity. Walter Benjamin insisted on the fundamental invisibility of the crowd in Baudelaire’s poetry of … Continue reading

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fat chance: rooting for the longshot

Its the opposite of investment. Its the quick fix. The bottomless pit of desire that cannot be sated. The Janus face of capitalism, money and banking. Is the true aim of the gambler narcissistic and aggressive desires for attaining the … Continue reading

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turning the back pages: thin people redux

Can memories be esthetically radicalized? What is the process? Taking the old image, the old picture, what Freud termed the hyper-aesthetic memory, the fragmented slivers of flash, then using them to catalyze creativity. D.W. Winnicott had a genial idea of … Continue reading

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gambling : putting a wager on fate

…The gambler becomes the rules by abiding by them, by allowing his actions to be transformed by the rules as he observes them, by allowing the structure to direct the flows of his movements….Is chance a divine game played cosmically … Continue reading

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