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chriso'kane

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About Me

"even the biographical individual is a social category. It can only be define in a living context together with others; it is this context that shapes its social character and only in this context does an individual life acquire meaning within give social conditions." TWA

My Interests

Only in the Plural- If society, as a contemporary theory teaches, is really one of rackets, then its most fateful model is the precise opposite of the collective, namely the individual as monad. By tracing the absolutely particular interests of each individual, the nature of the collective in a false society can be most accurately studied, and it is by no means far=fetched to consider the organization of divergent drives under the primacy of the ego answering the reality principle as, from the first, an internalized robber band with leader, followers, ceremonies, oaths of alliegance, betrayals, conflicts of interest, intruiges and other appurtenances. one need only observe outbursts in which the individual asserts himself energetically against his environment, for instance rage. the enraged man always appears as the gang-leader of his own self, giving his unconscious the order to pull no punches, his eyes shining with the satisfaction of speaking for the many that he himself is. the more someone has espoused the cause of his own aggression, the more perfectly he represents the repressive principle of society. in this sense more then in any other, perhaps, the proposition is true that the most individual is the most general.'

I'd like to meet:

Albany hipsters where are you?

Music:

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Movies:

.. width="425" height="350" ..I recently enjoyed Borat in the theater. In my living room-my dads to be precise- it has been; Grey Gardens, the new Preston Sturges Box set, THE FOUNTAINHEAD, and the first half of Reds.

Television:

The nightly hour of Seinfeld.

Books:

the rise of the idiots

Heroes:

said, marx, gramsci, the early frankfurt school.(fuck habermas) the non-identical.

My Blog

ive moved

my new blog is at www.futuresandpasts.wordpress.com
Posted by chriso'kane on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:10:00 PST

ON BENCH MEMORIALS.

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Posted by chriso'kane on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:21:00 PST

Reification as vacuous discourse

          Stating that the discourse of the newsmedia is vacuous is not a new observation, many blogs ably point this out everyday. I also imagine that an...
Posted by chriso'kane on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:38:00 PST

Adorno explained

I just found this entry on Adorno from the Stanford Dictionary of Philosophy. Its  the best overview of Adorno's thought I have found. I thought i would post it here for anyone who has been inter...
Posted by chriso'kane on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:34:00 PST

Resistance is Surrender

The following article by Zizek has constantly been on my mind for several reasons; (1) the wonderful analytical distinctions and descriptions Zizek makes among the left. (2) the critique of infinite d...
Posted by chriso'kane on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:20:00 PST

Universal Truths

Caught this in today's Guardian, its from a report on climate change, but it struck me as quite close to the universal foundationalist stand of political theory, or at least Marx reiterated;"The world...
Posted by chriso'kane on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:50:00 PST

emancipation

From Marx On The Jewish Question;All emancipation is bringing back humanity's world and its relationship to humanity itself.Political emancipation is the reduction of humanity, on the one hand to a me...
Posted by chriso'kane on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:04:00 PST

concise, damning and prophetic.

Said in the London Review of Books 4/17/03This is the most reckless war in modern times. It is all about imperial arrogance unschooled in worldliness, unfettered either by competence or experience, un...
Posted by chriso'kane on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:08:00 PST

Nathan Barley: you must watch it!!

This series is a work of genius. it is dark satire at its aboslute best. Those who have seen it will agree, those who haven't must watch it: ...
Posted by chriso'kane on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:44:00 PST

Loss and Inspiration.

Palestinian, intellectual, and fighter, Edward Said rails against Arafat and Sharon to his dying breathDate posted: September 26, 2003By Robert Fisk The last time I saw Edward Said, I aske...
Posted by chriso'kane on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:40:00 PST