Digitality and Intent
I gave a two-person talk with Nan Z. Da last fall at U. Michigan on the theme of “Digitality and Intent.” Here is my text for the talk, slightly revised and expanded. In prepping for this event, Nan and I decided on […]
I gave a two-person talk with Nan Z. Da last fall at U. Michigan on the theme of “Digitality and Intent.” Here is my text for the talk, slightly revised and expanded. In prepping for this event, Nan and I decided on […]
»The relentless unity of the culture industry bears witness to the emergent unity of politics.« —Th. W. Adorno & M. Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightment «According to the tenets of Hyperstition, there is no difference in principal between a universe, a
(Cybernetic-)‘Post-Pop‘: affect art(s) & (emotional) self-governing
Brian Massumi, der Tausend Plateaus ins Englische übersetzt hat, plädiert in seinem brandneuen »Postkapitalistischen Manifest« für eine alternative Konzeption des Werts, der zuletzt immer stärker der Komplizenschaft mit normativen Ideologien a la Habermas oder mit der kapitalistischen Macht bezichtigt wurde. Dagegen
Brian Massumis “On the Revaluation of Value” (1)
My purpose today is to update the rhetorical studies theory of subjectivity. I argue that ‘affect theory’ should replace the older psychoanalytic model of interpellation. To concretize my argument, I analyze banal rhetoric; namely, the cybernetic subjectivity produced by “stock
Non-constitutive Rhetoric: Or the Banality of Control