... thesis that the twentieth century was marked by a “passion for the real” into the context of his own project of spherology. The twentieth century consists primarily of the activation of the real in a passion for technological and economic antigravitation. The result is the slow but unavoidable...

...; and the hypermorality of the last, but still all too dominant generation of Frankfurt School theorists. Finally, I draw some political conclusions by opposing another source of inspiration for Sloterdijk’s “joviality,” the Luhmannian theory of complexity, to the bivalent “passion for the real” that, despite all...

... of the war against terror, its depoliticizing effects. It is a depoliticized picture, in which the lack of antagonistic politics and subjectivities in today's democratic materialist constellation is countered with the inherent excess of the system, the protagonist's (self-)destructive passion for the Real...

... chose a particularly dramatic path - Bombard the Headquarters! - that would mobilize youthful passions. Real progress, he proclaimed, could only come about through open criticism and replacement of those whose positions in the party, educational system and other cultural institutions still allowed them...

... is the flickering shadows of themselves on an otherwise blank wall. Teachers often tell students that those shadows (updated to include propaganda, heresy, fake news, orthodoxy, conspiracy theory, media illusion, among others) are contrasted with our efforts to grasp the true and the real. To liberate the prisoners...

... 10 , no. 1 : 1 – 26 . Shaw, George. 2002. Artist's statement, www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/shaw-scenes-from-the-passion-late-t07945/text-summary . Accessed November 20, 2009 . Shaw, George. 2004. “The Late George Shaw.” Channel 4, www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/A/art_show...

...). For Badiou, the “movement of radical formalisation” held a “relation of complementarity” with the twentieth century's “passion of the real” (2003: 116). Perhaps this is no less the case today, only the conditions within which labor and life are instituted are vastly different. The movement of form...

... of noncommunication everywhere. In their instant availability, the time and attention they take, the physical incorporation they produce, and our connected disconnection from the world, digital gadgets massively extend the mass media’s abolition of real experience, relations, and communication. Increasingly...

... of not only everyday life but also the public sphere and intellectual culture? If Alain Badiou (2007) is correct that the twentieth century was in part defined by a passion of, and for, the Real, then at least two things emerge from this. One, under Mao China was—for better and for worse— the site...

... as Marxist ones: “If perversion as it concerns objects is most clearly discernable in the crystallized form of fetishism, we are perfectly justified in noting how throughout the system, organized according to the same aims and functioning in the same ways, the possession of objects and the passion for them...

... provided this information in a telephone interview with the author in April 2003. During the interview the same official agreed with the hypothesis that the real benefit of the tribunals should not be measured financially, but in terms of political legitimation. 9. Tir na nOg , the Land of Eternal...

... argues that Gilroy has no appreciation “that contemporary racism is based in the very real, material, economic and political oppression of entire peoples and groups of peoples by real existing imperialism” (p. 46). After considering the work of these two prominent cultural theorists, Robotham turns...

... mentality). To be sure, this article can only be a preliminary to the articulation of the theoretical, empirical, and practical implications and potentialities unlocked by such an approach, with much fundamental work still to be done. The philistine’s passionate anger can then be understood in line...

... Baudrillard's attention: the paradoxes of a consumer society geared to satisfaction yet more than capable of generating its own discontents; the implosion of the real in the wake of a media-induced excess of reality; the collapse of universalism and the rise of globalization and global terrorism; the fate...

...Friedrich Kittler; Christoph Weinberger The following interview with Friedrich Kittler, conducted by Christoph Weinberger in July 2007, is a passionate and instructive tour de force of pithy sound bites in which Kittler looks back on his work and criticizes alternate approaches to media. © 2012...

... who participate in the process, and who are keen to invest the prize with a different rhetoric. Here the story is one of a passionate engagement that defies the rational, the random and the corrupt. Simon Frith, chair of the Mercury Music Prize panel, remarked: “… once you get in that [jury] room...

... , and this does that mean that he is envious of Dionysus. What if Aristophanes trusted Socrates's sense of humor? And what if they had, at least partially, a shared understanding of philosophy? This is not to say that the portrait of Socrates Aristophanes paints in the Clouds fully mirrors the real Socrates...

... back and haunt us in ‘history’” (1983: 71). One of Nandy’s great insights into the colonial subject formation is that while it oppresses the colonized, in the manner so passionately captured in Frantz Fanon, it represses the colonist, the key example of whom in Nandy’s account is Rudyard Kipling...

... by Los Angeles Police Department officers and the real-time television broadcast of the O. J. Simpson trial. Topped by the seemingly endless investigation of the Clinton administration by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, the era became notable for sexual scandals on both sides of the aisle...

... Seneca knew and Nero unconsciously realized—the thing is a kind of limit, and real luxury resides beyond the scope of the material in theological or atheological space. We are, therefore, in Freud’s view, caught in the tension between the life drive to persist and survive and the dark death drive...