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Accelerationism: Adventures in Speed
Accelerationism is a recent theoretical trend that explores how we might repurpose existing forms of technology to develop a new postcapitalist...
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Accelerationism: Adventures in Speed
Accelerationism is a recent theoretical trend that explores how we might repurpose existing forms of technology to develop a new postcapitalist...
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Seriously Funny: Comedy and Authority in The Boss of It All
Comedy has a notoriously unstable relationship to authority. On the one hand, comedy offers a subversive de-masking of the claims of authority,...
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Matter Against Materialism: Bruno Latour and the Turn to Objects
Bruno Latour, according to Andrew Barry, has been ‘extraordinarily influential across the social sciences in Britain’. Latour’s ‘actor-network...
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Intoxication and Acceleration: The Politics of Immanence
In his notes on his first experiment in taking hashish, on 18 December 1927, Walter Benjamin records a series of experiences that might now have some...
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The Discreet Charm of Bruno Latour
Michel Houellebecq’s 2010 novel La Carte et le territoire (The Map and the Territory) concerns an artist, Jed Martin, French despite his...
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The Violence of Representation and the Representation of Violence
We could summarise the approach of theory to the problem of violence as the movement through a chiasmus: from ‘the representation of violence to the...