Tag Archives: Deleuze

Paris 1968: Anti-Fascist Machines

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

May ’68 A very large (albeit unspoken) determining factor behind Jean-Pierre Vernant‘s study of classical antiquity was the contemporary political climate in which he was writing. During WWII, France, and in particular the capital city of Paris, had been occupied … Continue reading →

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/Cloud/ – Conceptualizing Accumulation

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Descartes argues that we know that our bodies exist because something must be causing our impressions of them–i.e., we aren’t simply dreaming but perceived reality is actually real. Spinoza, however, disagrees. He argues instead that bodies do not affect the … Continue reading →

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Deleuze and Booze: Alcoholism as the Elsewhere of the Here and Now

Posted on March 30, 2011 by David McLendon

Alcoholism does not seem to be a search for pleasure, but a search for an effect which consists mainly in an extraordinary hardening of the present. One lives in two times, in two moments at once, but not at all … Continue reading →

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