November 2011
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Notes from the vault #3: Leçons sur la volonté de...
Semantic headfucks in the playground
After an extended pause…notes from the vault is back with a look at the next 2 lectures from Foucault’s lecture series Leçons sur la volonté de savoir.
Cours du 6 janvier 1971
There is no surviving manuscript from 23 December 1970 so we jump to 6 January. Staying with Aristotle, at stake is different approaches to understanding and defining...
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Education on film - The Class (2008) and Pump up...
The Education on Film series run by the Centre for Cultural Studies continues tomorrow Monday 28 November 2011 with a special double bill. This will be taking place in the Ian Guilland Lecture Theatre as part of a series of events organised by the Occupiers of the Whitehead Building at Goldsmiths.
First, up is The Class (2008) based on the novel Entre les murs - literally ‘between the...
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demoncracy
[noun / dēmənkrəsē]
i. [gen] the evil spirit of neo-liberalism
ii. [UK] political system in which it is only possible to vote for men who went to Eton and/or Oxford
The nightmare before Christmas - the undead dressing up as santa seems about right
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Reading Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of...
There is nothing hidden behind these faces and gestures, no domain to which I have no access, merely a little shadow which owes its very existence to light. (Preface to Phenomenology of Perception)
Thank you to everyone who attended the first reading group on Phenomenology of Perception - the Preface proved particularly rich in the questions it raised concerning science and history within the...
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Education on film - School Daze (1988)
Back from mid-term break - the ‘Education on film’ series at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths will continue on Monday 21 November with Spike Lee’s School Daze (1988).
7-9pm in the Council Room, Laurie Grove Baths, Laurie Grove, New Cross.
The rest of the season looks something like this:
28 November - Entre les murs [The Class] (2008)
5 December - Die Welle [The...
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don't just say it, spray it
Keep your head down when walking the streets of Paris. Not just to avoid treading in the poodle shit or tripping over some badly replaced cobble stones but for the pavement art and stencils you might stumble across.
Borrow, Consume, Work, Perish…
Capitalism is doing well, and you?
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some words on the street
Good to see this finally made it to press:
As the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always provided a source of inspiration for writers, artists and musicians. It has also become the focus for critical theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Michel de Certeau in their attempt to push the limits of textual analysis beyond literature and art towards our daily experience of the...
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care of the self
it’s a hotdog eat hotdog world out there.
Neo-liberalism won’t just swallow you whole, it also expects you to bring the sauce.
conference notes
an exercise in uncritical excess. some of the more pressing issues from the past few days:
- soon everything will be under water - enjoy your God complex - academia fucks up our bodies - twister - vegetative state - muscle forgetting - yoga is akin to fascism - whatever happened to Edward Furlong - what would a lecture on Judith Butler given in the style of a Hollywood disaster movie look like -...
