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Alternative Modernities
On Alternative Modernities Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar To think in terms of “alternative modernities” is to admit that modernity is inescapable and to desist from speculations about the end of modernity. Born in and of the West some centuries ago under relatively specific sociohistorical conditions, modernity is now [...]
Theoria
Jacques Derrida
Textual Communities: Nancy, Blanchot, Derrida
Kuisma Korhonen
(Culture Machine, Volume 8, 2006)
You find yourself in a dark room with a table, a chair, and a small circle of candlelight. On the table lies an open book. You are facing the [...]
Techne
It remains to be seen whether the world's largest democracy will continue to emulate the misguided spy strategies of the United States, or take up more constructive solutions. For now, it appears that the Indian government is set on laying the groundwork for a sprawling, panoptic future, while employing harmful tactics that threaten to compound the issues raised by pervasive NSA surveillance, not solve them.
Poiesis
Einstein’s Nightmare
On Bernard Stiegler’s Techno-Dystopiaab
Article originally Published at: C Theory
Mark Featherstone
I. Gadget Love
In the winter of 2013, I became aware of “Einstein’s Nightmare,” an Internet meme, a fragment of information, which reflects the horror of what I call in this article the “technological [...]
Praxis
Lines of flight are bolts of pent-up energy that break through the cracks in a system of control and shoot off on the diagonal. By the light of their passage, they reveal the open spaces beyond the limits of what exists. In a series of books written with the militant psychotherapist Felix Guattari (1930-1992), Deleuze linked human creativity to flight. It is our desire to escape the status quo that leads us to innovate.
When we look into the future, we dream of a world that is radically different from the one we know today. We may be stuck in offices, trapped in traffic, tied down by debt or shacked to unhappy relationships. Inside, we are nomads. We are already in flight.
