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Comment on A Brief Remark on Zero Dark Thirty by Steven Shaviro

Steven Shaviro — Sun, 19 May 2013 16:45:47 +0000

A Ukrainian translation here:
http://coffeehealtheffects.com/zero-dark-thirty

Comment on Post-Continuity by Intensive production

Intensive production — Mon, 13 May 2013 02:23:55 +0000

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Comment on Norman O. Brown by Sam

Sam — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:27:00 +0000

It’s such a pleasure reading the years that all the comments along with the blog are written. That’s the best prove of how Brown’s work is timeless. I just got to know him recently by a suggestion from Boston psychoanalysis graduate school and all of a sudden after years of trying to understand the psychoanalytic text, Lacan and etc, Brown made everything clear. His lectures on Islam and Henry Corbin is also mind blowing, his extraordinary fresh way of looking at the intentions of Islam, remembers me how the last chapter on anality must have been against the norms and right now reviewing his point of view on Islam in my opinion can make a lot of sense in the situation of heated relationship between east and west. Can’t wait to read the Love’s Body!

Comment on Post-Continuity: full text of my talk by Week Twelve: Digital Action: Intensified Continuity or Post-Continuity? | Polina Godz

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:43:03 +0000

[...] graphics is a tribute to what Shaviro calls “aesthetics of contemporary culture” (http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1034) in his essay with its lavish consumption and over abundance of visual and textual information. [...]

Comment on Grundrisse notes by Alex

Alex — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:02:22 +0000

Hi,

I stumbled across this by accident, and read your post — but skimmed the comments…so what I say might be have been discussed before (sorry).

Regarding your point “Marxian values have to do with the overall social organization of the economy, while prices have to do with the fluctuations of supply and demand (and especially marginal supply and demand).” I take issue with this.

First, the marginalist paradigm has been suspect since its birth. There are reviews of the problems available in the literature (e.g. “The Economics Anti-Textbook”, etc.), so I won’t bore you with them here.

Second, Marx points out that the labor theory of value implies supply and demand in Das Kapital, vol. I, when noting the fluctuations in prices of Brazilian coffee and diamonds.

I think the problem is mistaking “supply and demand” as the foundation of all truth…instead of realizing it’s merely a *specification* about how prices fluctuate under certain (ambiguous) circumstances.

Third, the empirical strength of the labor theory of value has been studied (see, e.g., https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxvNb6ewL7kOdWhYSEI4OVJHTkk/edit?pli=1)…compared to the train-wreck of marginalist economics, the LTV comes out quite well!

Just some food for thought…

Comment on Kant, Deleuze, and the virtual by The Prince of Difference and Repetition | thebackpackclub

The Prince of Difference and Repetition | thebackpackclub — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:33:15 +0000

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Comment on Work for Hire update by Julian Wolfreys

Julian Wolfreys — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:56:54 +0000

Go with Edinburgh University Press; copyright remains yours entirely.

Comment on Daniel Plainview by The Void Within Daniel Plainview

The Void Within Daniel Plainview — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:08:39 +0000

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Comment on Post-Continuity: full text of my talk by The Power of the Image or, the Surface of Things | Post-Cinematic Affect Roundtable Discussion

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:26:15 +0000

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Comment on SCMS response by Jim H.

Jim H. — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:39:34 +0000

Probably not relevant to your main point or final question, I do have one comment: I felt that the key scene, however brief, in Tree of Life came when one dinosaur lays a paw on the fallen other beside the river. It seemed to indicate the emergence of empathy, maybe grief, in the otherwise cold cosmos.

That river, or at least a very similar one, appears in the film at a couple other key places, one of which, if I remember correctly, was the finger-shooting incident the guilt from which seems to haunt the Sean Penn character as he inhabits the walks of his memory during therapy.

By acknowledging it he is able to free himself from the guilt wrought by his own lack of empathy for the brother who eventually is lost (presumably by a gunshot in war). At long last he is able to embrace not only the dead brother but his younger self at water’s edge. He can forgive that unevolved younger self. This leads him at last to understand and also forgive the father who emotionally abandons him (and from whom he seems alienated because of his rebelliousness).

Then what? A bridge appears connecting the finite world of grief and guilt and memory to the mists of the infinite. To a perhaps loving cosmos. A reversal?