Month: February 2017
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an interval: Dark Deleuze in the Dark
Wednesday, February 22 / 5:00-7pm / DARC’s Dark Lab Room 108 Andrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today’s world of compulsory happiness, decentralized control, and overexposure. Arranged in a series of contraries, Culp’s cataclysmic politics exhorts us to kill our idols and cultivate “hatred for…
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“On Decadence: Bling Bling” and “Introduction to Boggs” in e-flux #79
“Let us imagine,” David Marriott begins his essay in this issue, “that ‘black lives matter’ is a scandalous, even decadent claim, characterized, as the definition has it, by excess or luxury.” If this is so, Marriott makes clear, it is an excess we cannot afford to not afford. On Decadence: Bling Bling by Professor David Marriott and Introduction to Boggs by…