December 2010
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“The history of technology shows that a tool is nothing outside the variable...”
– Deleuze
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Baumgarten's Aesthetics
Following the scheme of thought put forward by Leibniz and Wolff, he argues that aesthetics belongs to our lower faculty that deals with sensuous knowledge as distinct from logic, which belongs to our higher faculty that deals with mental cognition. To use the term the ‘lower faculty’ does not imply inferiority. For Baumgarten aesthetics is entirely non-utilitarian and separate from ethics and...
“One of the terms Deleuze uses throughout his writings to evade the recuperative...”
– Encyclopedia of Post Modernism, Timothy S. Murphy (via ajnabee)
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via arsvitaest)
Watchchikuwa4649:
The Punking of Paris Hilton 2006, by Banksy.
Source : http://www.ubu.com/film/banksy.html
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The adult brain as an embryo
The adult brain is thus an organ that has remained “embryonic,” while the rest of the adult organism, having finished its growth, is almost wholly out of contact with the (virtual) thematic potential. The brain can justly be considered as an embryo that is not yet fully grown. The equipotentiality of the brain makes it into a uniquely flexible organ through which innumerable...
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“In Difference and Repetition, we find a tripartite ontological scheme, positing...”
– John Protevi Deleuze and Wexler: thinking Brain, Body and Affect in Social Context
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WatchEric Alliez: Diagrammatic Regime versus Aesthetic Regime of Contemporary Art: The Case of Ernesto Neto
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“We cannot decide whether animals have painting, even though they do not paint on...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, ATP 301
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Neoliberal Globalization according to Wallerstein
To be sure, capitalists collectively fight back. This is what neoliberal globalization is all about—a massive political attempt to roll back remuneration costs, to counter demands for internalization of costs, and of course to reduce levels of taxation. As has happened with every previous such counteroffensive against rising costs, it has succeeded partially, but only very partially. Even after...
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The History of Style
The history of painting and cinema develops like a natural history with its internal and external, organic and inorganic logic. Wörringer and Focillon were the first to consider art under the appearance of natural history, where an organic and genealogical regime confront a crystalline and inorganic one according to orientations and dynamisms that involve new images. On this confrontational line...
Robert Morris - "A Method For Sorting Cows"
Robert Morris “A Method For Sorting Cows” published in Art and Literature 11 (Winter 1967)
It is essential to have a long corridor or alley with a large room or pen off to one side and approximately halfway between the ends of the corridor. naturally the more cows being sorted the longer the corridor and the larger the pen. Two men are required to sort cows in the method...
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Pigeons successfully learned to discriminate color...
Pigeons’ discrimination of paintings by Monet and Picasso by Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita
Pigeons successfully learned to discriminate color slides of paintings by Monet and Picasso. Following this training, they discriminated novel paintings by Monet and Picasso that had never been presented during the discrimination training. Furthermore, they showed generalization...
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