Comments for The Pinocchio Theory http://www.shaviro.com/Blog "If you fake the funk, your nose will grow." -- Bootsy Collins Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on “I never liked anyone and I’m afraid of people” by Joachim Maier http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=905&cpage=1#comment-50415 Joachim Maier Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:03:00 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=905#comment-50415 I love the way BEE re-shuffles members of the same clan & family throughout his novels. Is not Clay a cousin of Patrick Bateman? ...Leave alone the recurring presence of the Christian Bale character (who played Patrick Bateman in the movie) in some of the previous novels... I love the way BEE re-shuffles members of the same clan & family throughout his novels. Is not Clay a cousin of Patrick Bateman?

…Leave alone the recurring presence of the Christian Bale character (who played Patrick Bateman in the movie) in some of the previous novels…

]]> Comment on Cosmopolitics by Timothy Morton http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=401&cpage=1#comment-50408 Timothy Morton Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:30:17 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=401#comment-50408 I like Isabelle Stengers' reply (just above). Where creationism and neo-Darwinism concur is in a certain belief about belief--that "belief" means clinging with all your might to an idea at the expense of all others. Anyone who has seen Sam Harris's TED talks will be scared of these guys too! In any case I can't wait to read the book. I like Isabelle Stengers’ reply (just above). Where creationism and neo-Darwinism concur is in a certain belief about belief–that “belief” means clinging with all your might to an idea at the expense of all others. Anyone who has seen Sam Harris’s TED talks will be scared of these guys too!

In any case I can’t wait to read the book.

]]> Comment on Boarding Gate by On Olivier Assayas’ Boarding Gate « Let It Read http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=627&cpage=1#comment-50405 On Olivier Assayas’ Boarding Gate « Let It Read Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:45:04 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=627#comment-50405 [...] analysis and a different appraisal of its ideological undercurrents, see Steven Shaviro’s blog. « Review of Bong Joon-Ho’s Barking Dogs Never [...] [...] analysis and a different appraisal of its ideological undercurrents, see Steven Shaviro’s blog. « Review of Bong Joon-Ho’s Barking Dogs Never [...]

]]> Comment on Splice by Dave http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-50404 Dave Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:17:15 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=895#comment-50404 Also that curious sex scene between Clive and Elsa where she seems almost in pain? Also that curious sex scene between Clive and Elsa where she seems almost in pain?

]]> Comment on Splice by Dave http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-50403 Dave Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:13:25 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=895#comment-50403 Steve, I think this is your best piece yet. I found Splice one of the most uniquely disturbing films I've ever seen. It unsettled me to the core, and I'm still not completely certain why. But your extraordinarily insightful analysis clarified a lot. Esp the sense of this parental love which is ultimately so selfish and pathological, but portrayed in a way that is simultaneously transparent and unrecognisable. The film ties the monstronsity of the symbolic without borders with the nature of late capital beautifully. It's Shelley meets Poe meets neoliberal biopolitics (Poe seems to be the missing link here...). I wondered also what you made of the key scene where Clive almost drowns Dren but lies and says he did it to save her? Also, the chilling scene where Dren looks back at Clive through the security camera in the water? Becoming almost purely an digital image, a fantasmatic projection - a gaze that looks back. The unsettling lack of explanation for how she learns words seems to lie in the characters use of her for their own projections. They are each inside of her, just as much as she/he wants to be inside of them. Steve, I think this is your best piece yet. I found Splice one of the most uniquely disturbing films I’ve ever seen. It unsettled me to the core, and I’m still not completely certain why. But your extraordinarily insightful analysis clarified a lot. Esp the sense of this parental love which is ultimately so selfish and pathological, but portrayed in a way that is simultaneously transparent and unrecognisable. The film ties the monstronsity of the symbolic without borders with the nature of late capital beautifully. It’s Shelley meets Poe meets neoliberal biopolitics (Poe seems to be the missing link here…).

I wondered also what you made of the key scene where Clive almost drowns Dren but lies and says he did it to save her? Also, the chilling scene where Dren looks back at Clive through the security camera in the water? Becoming almost purely an digital image, a fantasmatic projection – a gaze that looks back. The unsettling lack of explanation for how she learns words seems to lie in the characters use of her for their own projections. They are each inside of her, just as much as she/he wants to be inside of them.

]]> Comment on Biopolitics by ghostofo http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=695&cpage=1#comment-50388 ghostofo Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:31:10 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=695#comment-50388 Two different starting points (that incorporate political economy): "Biocapital: the Constitution of Postgenomic Life" by Sunder Rajan Kaushik; "Dolly Mixtures: the Remaking of Genealogy" by Sarah Franklin. Time will tell? Two different starting points (that incorporate political economy): “Biocapital: the Constitution of Postgenomic Life” by Sunder Rajan Kaushik; “Dolly Mixtures: the Remaking of Genealogy” by Sarah Franklin. Time will tell?

]]> Comment on Kathryn Bigelow by afriacangirl http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=862&cpage=1#comment-50382 afriacangirl Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:37:54 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=862#comment-50382 watched the film, not sure about the hype it has received though. As a woman i'm very happy for Katheryn really i am. But i can't put my finger on it but there is something ever so slightly insincere about this one. I mean i know most american war films lack honesty but this one goes out of it's ways to not create any assumptions that for me it kind of seemed forced. Maybe i should try watch it again. I share more or less the same sentiments as Perc. watched the film, not sure about the hype it has received though. As a woman i’m very happy for Katheryn really i am. But i can’t put my finger on it but there is something ever so slightly insincere about this one. I mean i know most american war films lack honesty but this one goes out of it’s ways to not create any assumptions that for me it kind of seemed forced. Maybe i should try watch it again. I share more or less the same sentiments as Perc.

]]> Comment on Slow Cinema Vs Fast Films by Culture Warrior: Why You Should Know Slow ‘Joe’ | Film School Rejects http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=891&cpage=1#comment-50381 Culture Warrior: Why You Should Know Slow ‘Joe’ | Film School Rejects Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:07:55 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=891#comment-50381 [...] reading on the subject, check out articles on slow cinema by Zach Campbell, Matthew Flanagan, Steven Shaviro, and Harry [...] [...] reading on the subject, check out articles on slow cinema by Zach Campbell, Matthew Flanagan, Steven Shaviro, and Harry [...]

]]> Comment on “I never liked anyone and I’m afraid of people” by An Unrelieved Chill - Plasma Pool http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=905&cpage=1#comment-50371 An Unrelieved Chill - Plasma Pool Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:50:08 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=905#comment-50371 [...] Shaviro reviews Bret Easton Ellis’s pretty ballsy return to the spoiled innocents of his prodigious Less Than Zero—aged 25 years—in his new novel Imperial [...] [...] Shaviro reviews Bret Easton Ellis’s pretty ballsy return to the spoiled innocents of his prodigious Less Than Zero—aged 25 years—in his new novel Imperial [...]

]]> Comment on Splice by No Present Like Links « Torque Control http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-50357 No Present Like Links « Torque Control Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:30:57 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=895#comment-50357 [...] Shaviro’s consideration of [...] [...] Shaviro’s consideration of [...]

]]>