In a post-climate change apocalypse, the revolution is soon betrayed by science. The rightwing Sellarians wanted the manifest image of hope expelled from Snowpiercer. Before the betrayal, Layton and his revolutionary government, spread a noble lie, a new Eden that will free the survivors in the train from its dependence on Snowpiercer (a marvel of … Continue reading Snowpiercer Season 3 be like:
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Ah, there you are- fighting your loneliness, the tiresome question of all, why is there Christmas? Why this day wouldn’t get away? And there you are trying to not become sad and lonely, seeing yourselves playing the best part, like a lonely mouse trapped in the epithelium of the cold sky. The night sky is … Continue reading A tale of Kafka and Christmas
Without rhyme or reason, I thought of dedicating this introductory part (from a book chapter anthology on Deleuze and the Pandemic that I hope to complete by the end of the week) to a newly installed University President (yes, right in the middle of the pandemic), a one-‘time’ friend, but a deeply respected ‘one’. Out … Continue reading Flight of the Stationary
Tulad din ng mga aninong ito, maghapong nag-iisip nang isasalubong sa gabi. Aswang daw kasi ako, pala-isip ng ipaparaos sa magdamag, saka pa lang maghahanap ng pag-ibig, ng pagkakataon pang umasa. Paborito ko ang lasa ng Disyembre. Parang kahapon lang- magdamag walang araw, walang inaalalang kulay na kukutya sa mga bulag na mata. Nung Lunes … Continue reading Baka Lang Naman
When does real abstraction happen in the sense of Marx? Or if we follow the logical transmissibility of abstraction, when does real performance of abstracting occur? If the commodity is an outcome of real abstraction, then the latter must have originated in some unobtrusive layers of reality that requires abstraction to ex-pose it. But isn’t … Continue reading Re-reading Sohn-Rethel
Even as there’s still a week more to waste before we finally bid goodbye to 2020, let me make a wager. Days can be infinitely longer when they are expected to separate from the phase space of time. Perhaps, it’s why there are holidays to mark what’s really the shortest wait; holidays to deaden time, … Continue reading They call it merryxmas
The abyss: you are looking into it in which your image cannot be reflected. (from Benjamin Bratton's talk). My take: This is one of the scandals of the Copernican turn that has gone interplanetary, galactic. The voyeuristic attempt to see the cosmos deep in its arcane past, the unprethinkable ancestrality, reveals a planetary subject that … Continue reading Vision’s End
When science fiction films depict how technology becomes uncontainable, the more advanced a human society becomes, does it not occur like an analogy of nature thinking from the future? If we place this question within the Spinozist concept of nature, it is not difficult to draw the equation: nature thinks ahead so that human knowledge can … Continue reading Thinking from the future
The site of this transposition, Ranciere states elsewhere, is the “dividing line that has been the object of [his] constant study” (The Philosopher and His Poor, 225) between a particular distribution of the sensible and the dissensus it calls for out of which a unique subject of politics emerges. Ranciere defines ‘politics’ as “an activity … Continue reading On Ranciere: The Wrong People in the Transposition of Aesthetics and Politics
Back in 2012, Zizek described a […] counter-point to the kind of crisis denial that erupted in our midst. In his criticism of Parmenides’ metaphysical conception of the fleeting ‘instant’ that cannot be properly accounted for to occur in time, but also paradoxically is ‘poised’ for both time and outside time, which already connotes a … Continue reading On Zizek and Parmenides, or was it the virus?
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 