...Derek R. Ford While the general intellect continues to provide a rich resource for understanding post-Fordism and for theorizing resistance, there remains a neglected aesthetic dimension to the general intellect and the role that art can play in resistance based on it. This article develops the...

.... 2006 . Softness: Interrogability; General Intellect; Art Methodologies in Software . Institute of Aesthetic Studies, Aarhus University. Available at http://www.interfacekultur.au.dk/enhed/aktiviteter/fuller/fuller_softness (accessed January 31, 2008) . Geertz Clifford. 1965 . “The...

... setting and resonances of this aggressive action of urban–global “upgrading” in the city. The contemporary, general logic of metropolitan globalization should be situated in the specific and distinctive context of Istanbul's evolving urban identity. There are three principal objectives. The first is to...

... God. Though we do not and cannot know all the details, since God’s workings are beyond the reach of limited human intellect, we at least know the general drift and aim of history. Variations on this theme are found in a long series of sources from Isaiah to Hegel. Thinking within a Christian...

... fiction generally in relation to Baudrillardian approaches to the object and seduction before looking at two very different examples of detective fiction, but which turn out to explore the opposition between production and seduction in similar ways: the parodic detective dramas of the contemporary...

... distinguished from previous right-wing ideologies. More generally, the three contradictions presented here are proposed as explanations for understanding the mainstreaming of the alt-right in contemporary politics and culture. © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 alt-right mass media postmodernism...

... today, this is because its reprogramming of the pitch of existence ( Daseinsstimmung ) paves the way for a “critique of extremist reason,” a “post-Marxist theory of enrichment,” a “new interpretation of dreams,” and a “general economy” of energy resources based on excess and dissipation. © BERG 2007...

... ( Grammar of the Multitude ), in which you write at several points of the question of individuation, and then this other text that some of my friends from Multitudes had sent me a little before its publication, “Les anges et le general intellect” (“Angels and the General Intellect”). 1 First of all, I...

... “operaist” thought, Virno ( 2007 ) has provided one of the most elaborate accounts of the anti-workerist potentiality of cognitive labor, which he discusses in terms of “general intellect.” In the monograph Mondanità (a concept translatable as “worldliness” in English) especially, Virno ( 1994 : 117...

... experience and material condition—immaterial and symbolic labor, cognitive and communicative capitalism, the general intellect and the multitudes. In Finite Media , Cubitt acknowledges such operations and socialities as constituent forces within contemporary capitalism while asserting a core argument and...

... because these changes inadvertently augment the very power of the “general intellect” itself. On the other hand, the tipping point of 1968 also demonstrated the growing irrelevance of the theories, tactics, and organizational forms of an earlier phase of anticapitalist struggle, insofar as these are...

...Jane Ursula Harris Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey , edited by Dominic Johnson , with a foreword by Antony Hegarty , London : Intellect Live , 2013 , 248 pages, £25, $35.50 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-78320-035-1 . © 2015 Duke University Press...

... unmitigated exploitation of technical and ecological resources. The challenge is to build a future of public health, wealth, education, and environmental justice. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 COVID-19 coronavirus new normal fatalism imagination Pessimism of the intellect...

.... Commercial communication – marketing – is what “the media” have become for political theory more generally, i.e. constitutive rather than merely representative of social relations and values. This is why for Lazzarato “no code ‘external’ to the logic of money-capital can overcode and integrate the relations...

... texts in relation to Lyotard's works more generally. The epilogues constitute a series of significant responses to Lyotard's writings on art and artists—including a remarkable set of personal and philosophical reflections by Geoffrey Bennington inspired by the Sam Francis book that he translated...

... limitations afforded by computer technologies and the way these technologies are culturally framed as immaterial sources of boundless possibility—is in fact doubly useful for critical engagement with informatic culture. First, it is the analysis of contradiction in general that, for Fredric Jameson (1983: 1...

... modernity—reveals contemporary modernity to be a context where the panentheism of the early modern has become replaced by a new “panentechnologism.” In this regard, a new light (and a new divinity) now exists in the accident of a general accelerated condition that stands as the mystical secret of...

... both writers are often merely symptoms of a paranoia generated by a system that has every interest in encouraging its own reification? For, so long as our over-arching mechanism of Capital, Spectacle, and Biopower is mistaken for a quasi-volitional and unassailable totality , the real and singular...

... Prison . New York : Harper and Row . Heidegger Martin . ( 1927 ) 1962. Being and Time . Oxford : Blackwell . Heidegger Martin . 2013 . The Question concerning Technology and Other Essays . London : Harper . Husserl Edmund . 2012 . Ideas: General Introduction to Pure...

... as suggestions. Cultural studies need not accept the norms of formal disciplinarity nor the disciplinary ideal, as supported by the elite US system, although the flexible, energetic informal disciplinarity in which it has flourished may need to generate more bureaucratic institutions so as, for...