Two regular contributors to continent., Adam Staley Groves and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, have had the honor of attending the New World Summit, organized at the occasion of the 7th Berlin Biennial by artist Jonas Staal. The following notes concern their combined impressions. The New World Summit defines itself as follows: (1) An [...]
“Did Rick Santorum call Obama a ‘nigger’?” We know, and I won’t venture too far here, race is in the air…so, for fire’s sake…here’s some hot air, after all, when you run your mouth as often as these people, you begin to peel away the crust and the disguise of your own polemics, the authority [...]
Kony’s Island I’ve never been there, but it hardly matters. We will plant this flag on Kony Island, that is, regular people now prosecute terrorism in the name of justice for the love of impossible reconciliation. How is it that ‘American’s’ (whatever that is) think we can make a product out of anything, that we [...]
Forget for a moment the racist charges, von Mises’ism’ness, anti Civil Rightedness–all of it. The libertarian appeal has had to find sometimes obscure pockets to work its ideas into the American conversation because libertarianism is not properly a traditonal mainstream ideology, only when convenient is it called in. This has changed, and it knows no [...]
Two Political Bodies…? Today human and posthuman stand as two general, political spheres. Each sphere interacts with the other, each taking place in the other, not easily if at all distinguishable from the other. My interest in the recent surge of Republican candidate Ron Paul speaks to this phenomenon. The question of a return [...]
Your own, personal, antichrist. To stand outside of the human condition forwards the imperative of ordo as to obtain confusio “In radical fashion, he sweeps away the traditional image: this image, he insists, must be understood allegorically, not in some literal historical way. What the ‘antichrist’ means is grasped philologically everyone who is Christo [...]
“You Wanna a Job Right?” The “hacker group” Anonymous intends to disrupt or shutdown the Iowa Caucuses by targeting campaign offices in Des Moines with a sit-in on caucus night. Anonymous cites corporations and the complicity of both major parties driving “millions” of people into “poverty.” Anonymous, already linked to OWS, is encouraging OWS [...]
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.” [...]
Berardi states “[m]oney (i.e. economics) and the State (i.e. politics) are no longer able to govern or discipline the world of production, now that its center is not a de-brained force, a uniform and quantifiable time of manual work. That center is now occupied by mind flows, by the ethereal substance of intelligence, which eludes [...]