August 2010
61 posts
1 tag
Watchgamefreaksnz:
The Insane Console History Video 2.0 (by Elder-Geek)
Last year, Elder-Geek released the definitive video slideshow of consoles, computers, and dedicated game machines. This year, our video editor, Eliot Hagen, updates his original list with a few more entries. Please forgive the quality of some of the photographs. Also, the systems are ordered by release date by year and...
2 tags
6 tags
pigtailsandcombatboots:
Actual recording of...
1 tag
2 tags
3 tags
CFP Erotic Screen and Sound: Culture, Media and...
Erotic Screen and Sound Culture, Media and Desire
An international conference hosted by the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Griffith University and the Institute of Modern Art
Tuesday 15th – Friday 18th February 2011 Griffith University, South Bank, Brisbane.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Judith Halberstam English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies University of Southern...
2 tags
3 tags
July 2010
23 posts
Ranciere talk.mov (video/quicktime Object) →
Problems with critical thinking today? Let Rancière move you through something a bit… pretty… a bit aesthetic…
2 tags
4 tags
Bi-Annual Semester Funk
traumateddy:
erinlobrien:
brittuh:
Every New Semester:
After First Week:
After Second Week:
Before the Mid-Term Test:
During the Mid-Term Test:
After the Mid-Term Test: Before the Final Exams: Once Get to Know the Final Exam Schedule: 7 Days Before the Final Exam: 6 Days Before the Final Exam: 5 Days Before the Final Exam: 4 Days Before the Final Exam: 3 Days Before the...
5 tags
Final Pli CFP -- strongly recommended
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ON THE TOPIC OF CONTINGENCY DEADLINE 31ST OF AUGUST PLI, THE WARWICK JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY Pli invites submissions for the next volume (22) on the topic of Contingency. Recently, contingency has been reassessed (Meillassoux, After Finitude) in ways which bring that notion back into the centre of the contemporary philosophical debate. For the next volume of Pli we welcome...
2 tags
“Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (Asfixia) (via pigtailsandcombatboots)
Palahniuk’s point is particularly fun because he makes fantasy ‘material’ here. The objective properties of the object are altered by their framing: fantasy coordinates our desire to the point where we don’t even have to...
The Lark, an emergency support act while they...
in case of an emergency here is a lovely recipe to help you through the cold weather in our absence using an 18year old sherry finished Glenfiddich
Bobby Burns
45ml 18 y/old Glenfiddich Scotch (go on spoil yourself)
10ml of Bendictine Liqueur
10ml of Sweet vermouth
a dash of Angostura bitters
Method-
gently stir all ingredients in a mixing glass filled w/ice
strain into a chilled...
7 tags
4 tags
The lamella email
One of those random late night email replies… And let’s be honest: when you’re tired those lost objects do start to break into reality through the cracks.
Hi X., Please go beyond Hegel. That is where we shall start. The lamella is explained quite well by Lacan himself in several of his seminars, so it might be worth tracking those down. Zizek discusses it in many places...
9 tags
6 tags
The Final ASCP CFP: closes 31 July
See you there if you can make it!
Announcement: Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference 2010
The University of Queensland, Brisbane. December 3rd -5th 2010
The conference theme is Affect : The question of affect is at the heart of philosophy, a question at the nexus of ethics, aesthetics, the ontology of the real, the nature of knowledge, the phenomena of...
3 tags
