remembering Margaret Mahy, 21 March 1936 – 23 July 2012, taught us how to fly
what oppression?
– Julian Dibbell, from “A Rape In Cyberspace,” 1993 [here] but quoted by Alan Jacobs in an article titled:
The Artist’s Lens
to draw attention to it for the reason that it has this upsetting subtitle: “What It Means to See the World With an Eye Toward a Facebook Update”
Qu’est-ce qu’un acte de création? – Gilles Deleuze, 1987
source of clichéed philosophical disdain for dirty history in the academicist mode, Kant to Hegel
“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
“among those who care about such matters”
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
holey tactility
‘[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