Post Tags Archives: Muammar Ghadaffi

OWS (5): Corpse Clusters, Profanations and the New Literacy—in response to Vincent

President Obama phrased the death of Gaddafi the removal of a “dark shadow.” While darkness and light are the most generic of philosophistry, it is congruent with Agamben’s profanation of apparatuses, that is, “to bring them to light the Ungovernable, which is the beginning and, at the same time, the vanishing point of every politics.” [...]

The Unofficial View of Tirana (28)—in partial response to Adam.

This was the first image I saw yesterday, heading the website of one of the major Dutch newspapers. At that moment I could only marvel at the image, at its composition, the imbroglio of body parts, the technical data that articulated its technological framing, and the white face with black holes as eyes, nose, and [...]