Avery F. Gordon (on Hauntography?)
January 15, 2020
Hauntology & Ethnography & Hauntography
Earlier today I wrote a small bit about the idea of combining hauntology and ethnography into a practice of hauntography. I’ve been trying to see if
Hauntography
January 14, 2020
Hauntology & Ethnography & Hauntography
I’m currently working with a few grad students who are interested in hauntology, and in doing ethnographic research. This is making me think about
Sartre & the Analyst’s Discourse — The non-S1
January 14, 2020
Sartre & Analyst’s Discourse & Lacan & Existentialism
Here is the set up. One day during the Occupation, Sartre said, an ex-student of his had one to him for advice. The young mans’s brother had been
Dialectical Pessimism & Sartre.
January 13, 2020
Sartre & Dialectic & Pessimism & Existentialism
One of the ideas I’m engaging with on a regular basis is the idea of Dialectical Pessimism. Not that long ago someone suggested I read some Sartre,
Deleuze on Being Alone
January 10, 2020
Aloneness & Hauntology
“In the early eighties, in a class about cinema, if I remember correctly, Deleuze was interrupted by a rather fraught student … He asked Deleuze why
Slow Cinema & Non-Philosophy (hanging out)
January 8, 2020
Non-Philosophy & Laruelle & Slow Cinema
This video of a group of people just having out and talking about the concepts of Laruelle’s non-philosophy is great! The black and white footage
Mark Fisher on Freud’s Death Drive
January 8, 2020
Death Drive & Freud & Hauntology
The death drive is a psychoanalytic concept I’m very interested in. I’m always on the lookout for other people who have useful ways of describing
Philosophy has gone stale?
January 8, 2020
Non-Philosophy & Laruelle
The following is from the preface to Laruelle’s Philosophy & Non-Philosophy. Rather than a new philosophy, this work proposes a new practice of
The Specter of Nationalism
January 7, 2020
Hauntology & Adorno
Adorno was right when he wrote, Genocide has its roots in this resurrection of aggressive nationalism that has developed in many countries since
Liminal Station-000
January 5, 2020
Head Noise
What follows is the text to an email newsletter I just got going. If you want to see more of these you can subscribe via this link When I googled
The Ghost of Auschwitz.
January 5, 2020
Hauntology & Adorno
The premier demand upon all education is that Auschwitz not happen again. … Every debate about the ideals of education is trivial and
If only I had the time
January 2, 2020
Head Noise
I read the most recent edition of Craig Mod’s newsletter Roden Explorers (Archive, Subscribe to it), and it made me sad that I don’t have the time
Slow Cinema, a top 10 list.
January 1, 2020
Hauntology & Slow Cinema
I like slow cinema. I can’t watch it all the time, doing that would drive me crazy. The art of slow cinema is a great blog, and the best resource
Good words
January 1, 2020
Sinthome & Poetry
One of the blogs I read is Tim Lavenz’s Fragile Keys. It is not updated often, but when something is posted there, whatever it is, it hits me in
Protests then vs. “protests” now
December 30, 2019
Hauntology
GUNITSKY: It seems to be the case that protests are just easier to organize today, and there’s now more non-violent protest movements in the last
Remember the monsters too!
December 30, 2019
Monsterology
The decade began with great hope for a transformational U.S. nuclear policy and increased global cooperation. It ended with nuclear risks
Good sentences, good dialogue, good writing
December 29, 2019
Reading
Olivia Nuzzi (Twitter) is one of the political writers I enjoy reading because I enjoy her writing style. (Sometimes I also enjoy the content of
NIN & Jouissance?
December 28, 2019
Jouissance
It has been a long day, and I’m very tried. To keep myself awake I’m listening to NIN and working away on a few things at the computer. Just a bit
The ghost of Hegel
December 25, 2019
Dialectic & Hauntology
Lots of people nowadays are getting into (or back into) Hegel and teen gaging with dialectic think in ways that focus more on diving deep into
Kim Stanley Robinson
December 24, 2019
Anthropocene
I’ve just started to listen to the Anovel Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, and it’s good! I’m kinda of surprised I like it as much as I do,
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