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...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...

.... An ecological address to the problems of making sonic culture at a historical turning point at or beyond terminal risk prompts a politics of the commons grounded in a general imagination (modeled on Marx's general intellect). Against earlier modernist claims for both rationality and its failure, sound cultures...

... of net-generation innovators, only the most recent of whom are the bloggers being recruited into News Corp. And finally, the social intellect itself is being parceled up and sold off under the guise of intellectual property. There is a striking parallel here with Anson Rabinbach’s (1990) analysis...

... ( 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...

..., automation and ecologically sustainable technologies make it possible to surpass the scarcity of capitalist austerity, to transport society in the unbounded smooth space of an abundance economy. In this scenario, the common intelligence of the general intellect would become embedded in a networked machinic...

... 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 theoretical...

... 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...

..., and unmitigated exploitation of technical and ecological resources. The challenge is to build a future of public health, wealth, education, and environmental justice. COVID-19 coronavirus new normal fatalism imagination Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. —Antonio Gramsci, L'Ordine...

... antagonisms; rather, in Matteo Mandarini’s (2003 : 9) words, it displaces them to a “higher, more socialized level,” not least 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...

... the city of God. History is an eschatological process whose meaning lies in its final purpose, which lies in the return of human beings 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 metaphysics. 1 Here we will try to verify Aristotle's scheme of sense impression through Nancy's ( 2016 : 107) thoughts on ego cogito existo . But to be true to his intentions, we first want to sketch a general frame of his undertaking. Nancy wanted to compose a new ontology of bodies. He was well aware...

...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...

... not aspire to be a critical edition—and so is not encumbered by scholarly apparatus—Parret's prefaces serve to say something about the genesis of Lyotard's text or texts, about the artist or artists about whom Lyotard is writing, and to situate the text or texts in relation to Lyotard's works more generally...

... 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...

... Intellect .” In Deep Search: The Politics of Search beyond Google , edited by Becker Konrad Stalder Felix , 152 – 62 . London : Transaction Peters John Durham . 2010 . “ Introduction: Friedrich Kittler's Light Shows .” In Optical Media , by Kittler Friedrich...

... of engaging the political beyond a politics of the actionable. What we see around us is not only the disaffection with the institutions organized on principles of representation, but – in this collective defection – also the inspiring optimism of the general intellect. Multiple forms of political expression...

... as the micro-model for a generalized analysis of hegemony” (44). In the conclusion to Cinema 2: The Time-Image , while on the topic of “the electronic image,” Gilles Deleuze ([1985] 2013 : 272)—the typecast optimist and proud exponent of the aleatory powers of the image—echoes Baudrillard when explaining...

... that the new variety of cultural politics brought about by the coronavirus is largely undesirable. This kind of “pessimism of the intellect” (Gramsci 1973 : 158–59) (not unknown in the history of viruses, such as the deadly Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–20) is not wholly justified, or so we and our...

... Fragments , nothing is more disdainful than a sad Witz (see Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe 1978 : 82). The promise of Witz is its generative potentiality, and this is how romantic geniuses are able to transcend the anguishing chaos of the world and see it as “the site of possible generations, the force...

... to provoke more . ( More? the establishment roared and sent out one reviewer after the other to bury his habilitation.) In hindsight, I believe that this vulnerability was as much part of his charisma as it was his intellect. The physical fragility Kittler displayed later in life was preceded...