Archives mensuelles : janvier 2012

The increasing complexification of networks in our societies leads to a decreasing sense of responsibility due to our inability to map out the causal paths involved in the increasing number of risks taken, and so of more or less catastrophic … Lire la suite →

Quels nouveaux processus de subjectivation sont possibles étant donné l’évolution des technologies informationnelles et l’accroissement continu de leur présence dans nos sociétés post-modernes? L’intégration de plus en plus forte de la subjectivité dans les machines informationnelles pourrait aller jusqu’à l’absorption … Lire la suite →

Est-ce que la complexification croissante de nos sociétés post-modernes apporte un gain de créativité et de liberté, ou est-ce qu’on entre de plus en plus dans un régime de surveillance et de contrôle. Deleuze en analysent les modalités dans son … Lire la suite →

Babette Babich has given a brilliant lecture on « Schrödinger and Nietzsche on Life: Eternal Return and the Moment » which fleshes out (quite literally given her discussion of Schroedinger’s amorous practice) the affective portrait of Schroedinger given by Feyerabend. Feyerabend cites … Lire la suite →

(This photograph was taken by W.J. Broad and appeared in the article ‘Paul Feyerabend: Science and the Anarchist’, Science vol. 206, 2 Nov 1979). Sometimes we are doing nothing special, living peacefully, cultivating and expressing our individuality – when suddenly … Lire la suite →

In STORIES FROM PAOLINO’S TAPES Feyerabend translates some fragments from Xenophanes, taking care to conserve as much as possible of the original rhythm and style. From Feyerabend’s point of view rhythm and style are just as important as content. He … Lire la suite →

« Confusionists and superficial intellectuals move ahead while the ‘deep’ thinkers descend into the darker regions of the status quo or, to express it in a different way, they remain stuck in the mud. » Paul Feyerabend, AGAINST METHOD p53 This opposition … Lire la suite →

Deleuze detested schools of thought and tried to teach his students to « love their solitude », to reconcile them with the necessity of being an outsider and of treating their teachers as intercessors and not models. His aim was not communication … Lire la suite →

Feyerabend is concerned with the microphysics of power and resistance as expressed in the ordinary contexts of everyday life. I see his later reflections as somehow prolonging the meditations on metapoiesis that can be found in Dreyfus and Kelly’s ALL … Lire la suite →

When you find yourself convoked to talk in a « silly context » sometimes the best response is just to avoid that situation altogether. We saw this in the last post with Feyerabend declining an invitation to talk about Schroedinger on a … Lire la suite →