Simon Taylor

“It would appear no law-governed history of mankind is possible …We can scarcely help feeling a certain distaste on observing their activities as enacted in the greatworld-drama … everything as a whole is made up of folly and childish vanity, and often ofchildish malice and destructiveness…. The only way out for

Matthew Stewart’s Leibniz epitomises the reactive attitude towards our modernity, a modernity represented by Spinoza, in his compelling narrative. Something has been subtracted from Leibniz’s philosophy launching it as an untotalizable multiplicity. In this regard, he resembles Badiou reacting always to the immanence of Deleuze, even when Deleuze

‘[T]ouch is the space of the gap, not the connection’  – McLuhan, quoted in Charlie Gere, Community without Community in Digital Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2012

My father went to the cinema every Saturday where he saw the     newsreels showing the liberation of the camps. The two things were     always linked in his reminiscence:  the joy of the screen and its     stars and ‘having to see’ what ‘had to be seen.’ ‘Had to be’ because     the

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