(Streifzüge durch die Umwelten der Tieren und Menschen (1933), translated by Stephen Connelly [*]) Translator’s note: In this short introduction von Uexküll outlines his view of passive consciousness and its relation to affective being which would prove so...
… todo va bien, hasta que llegan los lectores. Porque, cuando ellos llegan, entonces: entonces. Entonces todo iba bien. A eso se llega cuando los lectores llegan. Primero publicar, luego escribir (única manera de Evitar lectores) … Las hijas de Hegel...
Of late, I have been working on a deconstruction of the people variously through Derrida and Ranciere. But it seems to me that one of the more important theorists of constituent power is Schmitt (along with Sieyes, Negri, Benjamin and Bataille). So, with the spectre...
The book ends (Fin), only to begin once more (again); James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is the eternal return of its hero, Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. This time around, the book may read differently, as it always does, but the basic plot remains the same. Whether we’re...
Internet shopping has entered mainstream culture. Every major corporation in the world has a web site offering product information, interactive advertisements, and, increasingly, the ability to buy products on-line. Discount books, pizza delivery, stocks, and just...
‘Demand the Impossible’ is documented as being one part of a slogan graffitied during the French student revolt of 1968. I got to know it via Peter Marshall’s Demanding the Impossible: A history of Anarchism (1993). Along with this fragmentary graffiti the song from...
