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“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
Simon Taylor 19 Jul 2012

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
Simon Taylor 10 Jul 2012

a letter to empyre soft_skinned_space on the subject of screens added here for interest even if leaving much unsaid

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
Simon Taylor 07 Jul 2012

take affirmative action against identity politics

Simon Taylor 01 Jul 2012

introducing Little Elephant Ltd. investment partnership opportunities

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Simon Taylor 30 Jun 2012

estates

it’s not that philosophy’s dead, more of a deceased estate – and there are more. We its unwilling executors. neither politics, nor history either – the more – dead: unwelcome dead letters, yet legible, not yet crumbling in our hands. it is not philosophy that is bankrupt. We – overdrawn – are exhausted
Simon Taylor 20 Jun 2012

“schools , hospi­tals , housing , transport and communications – those five pillars of a satisfactory life for all – can initially be regionalized (that is a step forward) , then exposed to competition (that is crucial) , and finally handed over to the ma

Alain Badiou’s The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings, here
Simon Taylor 20 Jun 2012

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