Percival Frankenstein

Lacan was right…

…when he said, and I quote, “The internet’s unconscious is structured like a language.”  

(via videogum 2 weeks ago)

Using pictures to understand words

Gustave Le Gray, Grande vague – Séte, 1855, albumen print from collodion on glass negative or negatives (Sotheby’s London, 27/10/1999, formerly Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes collection)

“What is this distinct-obscure which corresponds to the clear-confused? Consider Leibniz’s famous passages on the murmuring of the sea. Here too, two interpretations are possible. Either we say that the apperception of the whole noise is clear but confused (not distinct) because the component little perceptions are themselves distinct and obscure (not clear): distinct because they grasp differential relations and singularities; obscure because they are not yet ‘distinguished’, not yet differenciated. These singularities then condense to determine a threshold of consciousness in relation to our bodies, a threshold of differenciation on the basis of which the little perceptions are actualised, but actualised in an apperception which in turn is only clear and confused; clear because it is distinguished or differenciated, and confused because it is clear.” – Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (1968), trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), p. 213.

Good luck everyone!

“that’s the Love Guru”

From Troy Patterson, Slate, on the Oscars last night…

“The Franco-Rogen bit deserves a full-length critical appraisal. By full-length, I mean a Ph.D. dissertation tricked out with all the jargon about the contingency of gender performance and reader-response approaches to the late Pirandello. For starters, it had five or six layers of media analysis. (Franco: “Who do you think is a better actor, Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama?”) It rendered strange the familiar Apatovian ideas about masculinity and dude-hood. And it reimagined The Reader as a stoner comedy, a piece of criticism roughly in the same ballpark as Jackman’s terrific reduction of it, in the opening number, to something like the time on Sprockets when we dance.”

confession

redorangeorangeonred:

i have never seen a single clip or episode or anything of the wire …i only just heard of it a coupe months ago …but now i feel i must get it on dvd and watch … .damn peer pressure …apparently if i dont buy it the entire economy is going to melt down …

I’d like to think that my post from ten minutes ago had something to do with this. YOU’RE WELCOME, ECONOMY.