Schoenberg Add to the list of music I don’t understand (yet adore) is this film adapting Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21. Shot on shaky video in New York by Oliver Herrmann with primitive animation, strippers, old black men, meat lockers, SRO’s and the beautiful Christine Schäfer, this film is astounding. If you haven’t seen it, [...]
Graham Harman has posted a lovely response to critics of what he terms the blogopolis. Harman claims that rather than criticizing the proliferating philosophy blogs (mostly written by adherents and followers of SR/OOO) as being places in which philosophy can’t be done, these blogs should be looked at as the cafes and bars of post-1945 [...]
The stunningly prolific philosopher Graham Harman, whose piece appears in the new issue of continent. has just released a new book called The Quadruple Object. Supposedly not due to ship until mid-July, we were pleased to find it in the UPS man’s hands, direct from Amazon this afternoon. The Quadruple Object, though still unread, promises [...]
This cribbed from Graham Harman’s Object Oriented Ontology. The Centre for Philosophical Practice « Chromatiques whiteheadiennes » (A.S.B.L., non-profit org., Brussels, www.chromatika.org), managed by Michel Weber, Docteur en philosophie, directs its works according to three complementary axis (research, publication and counselling), each reflecting in its own order the guiding principles of the philosophical act (creativity, [...]
First we mourn the passing of colleague and spirited voice, Akilah Oliver, who died suddenly this week; an interview from Bomb is here…(what do you say in the silence?)…Paul Krugman reprises Naomi Klein’s remarkable shock doctrine in Wisconsin…while Joseph McCartin describes the emergence of an american workers rebellion…not since Mai ’68 in Paris however has [...]