plastic bodies

david lynch talks coffee

plasticbodies — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:57:22 +0000

In this installment of Huff Po’s ‘Obsessed’ series. What I like most are all the great one-liners, and Lynch’s sincerity about his deep love of coffee. It evokes the sincerity of Dale Cooper.

phenomenology of perception on its way

plasticbodies — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:49:48 +0000

Awhile back I wondered aloud about where the new translation of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception was. Well, the Routledge table had a few copies on sale at the APA Eastern, so it exists in some bound form (at least in some minimal quantity) and Amazon.com has it available for pre-order, which I did a few days ago. You can get your hands on the Donald Landes translation for $30 (rather than $50) here.

(Note that this post is historically relative–price subject to increase without notice.)

papers, please? emory philosophy student detained for no reason

plasticbodies — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:55:59 +0000

Read the firsthand account of the incident here.

[via Leiter]

more adjunct openings this fall?

plasticbodies — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:41:45 +0000

This may be purely anecdotal, but there seem to be more schools seeking adjunct faculty this season. In previous years the bulk of adjunct-seeking does not commence until later in the spring portion of the job season, but as we approach the APA later this month it seems that more and more of the late job ads are looking only for part-time workers.

If there is any truth to this observation, then it’s not a good sign. Or, perhaps, it’s not a sign at all. Or perhaps it’s just a sign that schools are uncertain about their financial futures, in which case we don’t really know anything about the state of things other than that hiring departments can’t predict the future.

adjunct manifesto

plasticbodies — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:21:33 +0000

This is an important document: “The Adjunct Manifesto”. Spread the word, please.

(via John Protevi, who comments on the issue here.)

cartoon

plasticbodies — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:23:03 +0000

harman on correlationism and hegel

plasticbodies — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:54:23 +0000

Graham’s got a nice pithy post on the difference between Kant and Hegel regarding their status as correlationists.

photographic evidence

plasticbodies — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:03:16 +0000

Credit: Brian Nguyen

‘lazy labor’ (essay from the archives)

plasticbodies — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:27:50 +0000

Since it’s in the air, and Bartleby (god love him) has been making appearances, I thought I’d post here a paper I wrote several years ago called Lazy Labor: The Tactics of Soft Resistance; or, Why Bartleby is Our Future [Word doc]. It was originally presented to the PIC Conference at Binghamton, then revised and put on the shelf. It discusses the speed of Capital and suggests some ways to slow it down. With reference to Virilio, Deleuze, Ranciere, De Certeau, Benjamin, and, of course, Melville.

speaking of bartleby the scrivener

plasticbodies — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:11:25 +0000

Here’s a recent article on ‘What Bartleby Can Teach Us About Occupy Wall Street’.

It may be worth mentioning that Deleuze, Ranciere, and (perhaps?–feeling too lazy to Google right now) Badiou have written essays on Melville’s short story, which is, perhaps, although I might retract this one day, my favorite.

(via Tim Morton)