Valerie Walkerdine: Using the Work of Felix Guattari to Understand Space, Place, Social Justice, and Education @ Qualitative Inquiry September 30, 2013

Valerie Walkerdine: Using the Work of Felix Guattari to Understand Space, Place, Social Justice, and Education @ Qualitative Inquiry September 30, 2013 

This article considers the work of the radical psychoanalyst Felix Guattari in relation to the study of and intervention into space, place, education, and social justice. By understanding the ways in which Guattari’s work understands space and place as central to existence, the article explores his schizoanalytic cartographies to think about the mapping of possibilities for movement, change, and transformation. As well as setting out a reading of this work, the article discusses what might be the implications for researching class transitions and for working within education to marshal the powers of the imagination and the inhabiting of new spaces and places. Read more

Metal Box in Dub - Understand Dub w/ Jah Wobble and Keith Levene

Ototo from Dentaku!

Welcome! to the first physical product from London-based studio Dentaku.

Cate Watson: Identification and desire: Lacan and Althusser versus Deleuze and Guattari. A short note @ International Journal of Žižek Studies 7 (2013)

Cate Watson: Identification and desire: Lacan and Althusser versus Deleuze and Guattari. A short note @ International Journal of Žižek Studies 7 (2013)

The paper constitutes an exploration of the construction of academic identities through a retrospective autoethnographic narrative analysis. In what is an essentially experimental mode I set out to examine processes of identification, and in particular, the understanding of desire that lies at the heart of them, for, it can be argued without desire there is no identity. Therefore, I begin my analysis by following two lines of thought concerning desire. The first, drawing on the work of Lacan, conceives of desire negatively as lack (Fink 1995; Lacan 2001). The second deriving from the work of Deleuze and Guattari (2004/1987, 2004/1972) constructs desire as abundance, a positive force. These two conceptualisations may, at first sight, appear to be opposed but is this necessarily the case? The question to be examined then is, to what extent can these two conceptualisations of desire – as lack and as abundance - be held to be incommensurable? And following this, can an unstable accommodation between desire as lack and desire as abundance be drawn on in theorising processes of identification and the subjectivities that these processes give rise to? If identification is always (already?) an inherently unstable process, located within a space, which I shall designate a narrative space, how does a mobilisation of desire which moves between lack and abundance enable a creative and experimental conceptualisation of processes of identification to emerge?
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Pic: Paul Gauguin "Christ in the garden of Olives"

Resonate festival in Belgrade - 3-5 April 2014

Resonate festival in Belgrade is back! for another year bringing artists together to drive a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture. We are pleased to announce the third edition of Resonate festival taking place in Belgrade between 3rd – 5th April 2014.

Organised as a collaboration between Magnetic Field B in Belgrade and CreativeApplications.net, Resonate brings together artists, designers and educators to participate in a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture.

Following the success of the sold-out two editions, we are pleased to announce that we are extending next years programme to include more than 70 participants across the range of activities including eight 1-Day Workshops (free to ticket holders – per application), highly requested four x 3-Day Workshops (31 March – 2 April), two collaboratives – Resonate initiated projects, over 20 lectures, more than 10 Project Talks (Q&A), Panel Discussions, Screenings and A/V Music Performances. Confirmed 2014 participants include: Aaron Koblin, Ben Cerveny, Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks), Universal Everything, Karsten Schmidt, Sunni Pavlovic (That Game Company), Dan Hill (Fabrica), Semiconductor, Ilona Gaynor, Yuri Suzuki, Michael Szivos (SoftLab), Douglas Edric Stanley, Paul Prudence, Jonathan Puckey and Luna Maurer (Studio Moniker), Moritz Stefaner, Theo Spyropoulos (AADRL), Manuel Jimenez Garcia (Bartlett), Keri Elmsly, Wesley Grubbs (Pitch Interactive), Jussi Ängeslevä (UdK), Gabriele Rossi and Giorgia Lupi (Accurat), Elliot Woods + Mimi Son (Kimchi and Chips), Joshua Noble (Frog Design), Andreas Muller, Pablo Garcia, onedotzero and many more.

Thibault Masset - La violence chez Deleuze-Guattari et chez Balibar: mode de production, subjectivation et politique. (Kindle édition, Sept 2013)

Comment penser la violence? Comment appréhender cette multiplicité? Peut-on en formuler un concept? En cet essai nous nous proposons tout d'abord de penser la violence dans son rapport au mode de production avec Deleuze-Guattari en posant la question : Quel forme de conceptualisation Deleuze-Guattari opère de la violence dans L'Anti-Oedipe? que peut-on tirer d'une telle approche? Ensuite nous chercherons à penser la violence dans son rapport à la politique avec Balibar en nous demandant quelle problématisation opère Balibar du phénomène violence relativement à la politique dans Violence et civilité? Enfin nous proposerons une troisième partie programmatique en formulant un nouveau concept de violence.
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Abstract de mon cours inscription septembre pour cours début octobre! (from Signal not found - Thibault Masset's blog)

Mark Stewart in Dub with Dennis Bovell @ O2 Academy Islington, London - Thu 24 Oct 2013