Minimalism
I want to keep this response handy. One may think that the essay form does not suit minimalism, and really you needed just to send a postcard. Something…
Tag: notes to self
Worker or Labour
Note for later… on the difference between worker and labour. Is it not obvious there are questions to ask here about demarcation – is a worker everyone under…
Rosa now more than ever
Rosa now more than ever Or why Rosa is someone who should be read at this point in time. To be a student of Rosa Luxemburg today is assisted hugely by the…
History tick tock
A somewhat strange take on the watch mechanism metaphor for history, and on village structure, from K.N.Chaudhuri. Asia Before Europe (explaining Braudel).
Handy hints on cracking up
F.Scott-Fitzgerald’s ‘crack-up’ as a model for going on with when needs must and all around have been ripping each other to shreds in a mass fraternal suicide: ‘I…
Steve Redhead: Theoretical Times
I’ve read most of Steve Redhead’s work over the years. Maybe not all the Virilio stuff as I leave that to Sophie, but this is the next one…
Bollywood and women
For the reminder files, an email response to a student met doing Capital in India proposing a PhD on women in Bollywood. I'm not sure I'm the one…
Kill your darls no. 9 – more cuts and buts…
Yet ‘Epistemological performance is how you construct yourself and the world as an object of knowing’ says Spivak at the University of Kwazulu-Natal 8th Annual Teaching and Learning…
Kill your darlings 8
The footnotes are getting the chop chop treatment too. It is a sad sad day. A bad bad way to relegate people to the acknowledgements. Is it just…
kill your darlings 7 – soon there will only be seven words left…
An approach that experiments with a frame shift towards a political and allegorical register cannot keep up with that level of work, even as it relies wholly upon…
Kill your darlings part 7
The slaughter of excess paragraphs and cul de sac ideas continues to leave this residue here in case I need to return… There are several admirable reasons for…
Kill your darlings #6
Now the collection of – clunky concrete poetry – things dumped here show just how rough the first draft really was. Out damn spot, out. It is always…
Hutnyk
Tracking down the old man’s arrival records from Europe to Australia. He was a violent drunken shit, but I do appreciate at least his refrain about how we…