The Split Subject of Speculative Discourse
Every discourse feeds an illusion—an image of a world without an unconscious— on the one hand and on the other produces a claim, for example the “I claim” or “I define” of philosophical discourse, statements that serve as the declaration of power of the master and his agents. What we’re concerned wi...
Human Interconnection
This online workshop with The Reading School was about reading and writing and the potential to create new content based on present technology: What happens when your physical body (or objects) meets the logic of a virtual representation – in a time when physical distancing is essential for human...
The Society of The Accessory
We live in the spectacle, without a proletariat. When Guy Debord coined the notion of the society of the spectacle in the early 1960’s, he could of course not envision the image machines we have at our disposal today. That’s probably for the best. Debord killed himself in 1994 shooting himself in th...
Dick Tracy, Mad Men and Wall Street: A Brief [His]Story of Mobile Affect
On the 3rd of April 1973 a group of nervous engineers and curious journalists gathered in the Hilton Hotel in New York City for a highly anticipated launch. At the centre of the attention was Marty Cooper, an affable Motorola engineer credited with the invention of the DYNA T-A-C 8000X, the world’s...
Dialectics on Wheels – The Racing Bike 'Read' and Experienced as a Vivid Invitation to Both Incarnation and Extension
Most people have tried it: Being passed by sweaty cyclists on the bike lane at high speed. A moment of horror and rippling cold sweat. They always come from behind and pass you with a few centimeters distance. Yet another rash of virile death-defying in the narrow traffic corridors of the city. Reck...
The Image-creating Impulse
Heraclitus was one of the first philosophers in ancient Greece. He lived over 2500 years ago in the city of Ephesus, in what is now called the west coast of Turkey. Not very much is known about his life and person. What consists of his oeuvre today is handed down to us by secondary sources. How coul...
’Schwamping’ – Deciphered as the Zeitgeist at Sea and On the Road
Just over 200 years ago, the German master thinker G.W.F. Hegel, made philosophy dynamic. Instead of comporting stiffly world images and celebrating and circulating eternal ideas, philosophical thinking had to bring the time of concept, i.e. summarize his time in thoughts. The claim sounded and mean...