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Showing posts with label nick land. Show all posts
21 Mar 2024

On the Nature of the Ridiculous (and the Ridiculous Nature of the Sex Pistols)

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Sex Pistols Photo by Richard Young (1976)   "We have passed beyond the absurd: our position is absolutely ridiculous." [1]     I...
9 Dec 2023

Thoughts Inspired by Ben Woodard's 'On an Ungrounded Earth' (2013)

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Punctum Books (2013)     I.   When I hear the term geophilosophy my first thought is not to Deleuze and Guattari's work, but, rather, b...
11 Nov 2023

Fragmented Remarks on Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life - Part 1: Lost Futures

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Zero Books (second edition, 2022)     For some reason, the spectral figure of Mark Fisher continues to haunt my imagination [a] .    And, wh...
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28 Dec 2021

Jane Ciracylides: the Girl with Insect Eyes (Notes on 'Prima Belladonna' by J. G. Ballard)

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Ilaria Novelli (aka Ila Pop): Jane Ciracylides (2020)  Mixed media painting on cotton paper (23 x 31 cm)     I.    'Prima Belladonna&#...
19 Oct 2021

Auschwitz-Geschichten 1: In Memory of Prisoner 26947 (Czesława Kwoka)

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Czesława Kwoka (1942/43) Photo by Wilhelm Brasse  Auschwitz-Birkenhau State Museum     I.    Most people find it extremely difficult to look...
11 Apr 2021

Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones

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The Lovers of Valdaro   Image: Dagmar Hollmann / Wikimedia Commons License: CC BY-SA 4.0     I.    New York based German artist Heide Hatry ...
21 Jan 2021

The Filth and the Fury (Or Never Mind the Sex Pistols - Here's the Borborites)

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O fangeuse grandeur! sublime ignominie!     I.    I've always been fond of a bit of base materialism, thus my fascination with the works...
30 May 2020

In the Presence of Michel Houellebecq in the Presence of Schopenhauer

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Front cover of the Polity Press edition (2020) designed by Adam Renvoize I. The fact that Michel Houellebecq loves Schopenhauer...
20 Dec 2019

On Stamina (as Ontological Destiny)

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John Melhuish Strudwick: A Golden Thread (1885) I. An aged philosopher, said a young Nick Land, is either a monster of stamina ...
9 Feb 2019

On Learning to Laugh at Everything with Larry David, Georges Bataille and D. H. Lawrence

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Credit: durantelallera/Shutterstock I. Everything's Funny As I said in a recent post, one of the things that the phrase torpe...
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