Zimzim urullala zimzim urullala zimzim zanzibar zimzalla zam / elifantolim brussala bulomen brussala bulomen tromtata / velo da bang band affalo purzamai affalo purzamai lengado tor / gadjama bimbalo glandridi glassala zingtata pimpalo ögrögöööö / viola laxato viola zimbrabim viola uli paluji malooo / / he tore his motor apart / he was a lumpy frail machine / he cut his right arm to the bone / eat your chocolate / gulp some rain / nor the bicyclist / nor the man / was ever happy or sad again. ATE THE LUCKY Charms. A CERTAIN CLICK of certain doors in certain corridors. Featuring Drenching on dictaphones, amplified and unamplified, and selected quince ephemera: two party-whistles, festive dog-toy of love, one jingle bell and SMA and TamTad Stuffed Vine Leaves tins. FREE DOWNLOAD! Small tape machines from the REALMS OF GLORY, bending NEAR THE EARTH: as all the blurbs say, ‘These are not tactics raised to principles. / Every good poem is a transitional demand’. I copied the poet John Clare on his feverish escape from Matthew Allen’s asylum in Epping Forest, when he navigated by lying down to sleep with his head to the north. I stalked a defining urban narrative by sleepwalking through downriver reaches, sniffing after faded traces of Thomas De Quincey – and challenging the post-architectural infill. Start a vegetable file (if essential to already have one). The electrode and work circuit is electrically live whenever an output is on. I mean, lick me all over til I shine like a trout. This slip into “spiritualist obscurantism” occurs when Badiou attempts to account for the process whereby an “inconsistent multiplicity” becomes a “consistent multiplicity.” An inconsistent multiplicity is a consequence of Cantor’s theory of transfinite numbers, which entails, as Johnston puts it, an uncountable, nondenumerable “infinite infinities of inconsistent multiplicities-without-oneness.” The “counting-for-one” operation “imposes certain constraints and limitations on thought’s relation to (inconsistent) multiplicities of being per se,” and renders them into countable, consistent multiplicities. The problem for Badiou, however, is to account for this operation itself. Who or what performs the operation? Johnston claims that ultimately this “counting-for-one” remains unaccounted for, and is “a unity-producing synthesizing function or process as an ephemeral non-being arising from tuffm im zimbrabim negramai bumbalo negramai bumbalo tuffm i zim / gadjama bimbala oo beri gadjama gaga di gadjama affalo pinx / gaga di bumbalo bumbalo gadjamen / gaga di bling blong / gaga blung, Luigi Galvani observed that sparking from an electro static generator could cause convulsions in a dead frog.” And yet, and yet, I love grilled brussels sprouts with a bit of hard cheese and a drizzle of really good olive oil. This slim but exciting little book has to do, first of all with some 30 broadcasts that Benjamin prepared and delivered for German Radio between 1929-1932 specifically for children, maybe 7-14 or so, each consisting of a 20 minute talk or monologue. A main emphasis was on introducing the kids to various natural catastrophes, for instance the Lisbon earthquake of the 1750s that so shook the optimism of Voltaire and the century, a flood of the Mississippi in 1927, and the Pompeii disaster as came through the famous letter of Pliny the Younger; another subject was various episodes of lawlessness fraud and deceit, much of it recent, for instance bootlegger’s boats that were bringing rum or whatever to America through the prohibition blockade, postage stamp (and cancellation) counterfeiting, the ‘miracles’ of Faustus, the “tea” that was sold to passengers at a stop of a liquor-less train, with the understanding that it was really booze, but which turned out to be tea, as in Freud’s “you told me you were going to Cracow thinking that I would assume Lemberg, but you're really going to Cracow, so why are you lying to me!” Illustrating ... well, promulgating a Jewish mysticism, especially in its powerfully heretical antinonomian currents, as so profoundly disseminated by Gershom Scholem, that of the great apostate Sabbatai Zevi. Zevi had been ‘to the mountain’, like Moses before him, and had received that sensational 11th commandment, which was to disobey the first 10, incarnating also the realization of the law in its transgression …
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What was it about the period c. 1991-2004 that made a reference to Antigone mandatory in every vaguely Continental-flavoured book?
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James Luchte the ultimate double bind of conflicting principles...
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Jacob Bard-Rosenberg those were the years when people actually read Hegel.
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Johannet Björk its decisional aspect being much more in line with the ethical turn than the oedipal dispositif?
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Nina Power I’m just reading Douzinas and Warrington on ethics and the law (1994) and they make the now familiar gestures regarding the singular and the universal and the ethical before the ontological: I suppose the question is another way of asking what the ethical turn was about – it’s quite weird to go back and read these texts, being alive but not yet aware of these discussions: ‘Could we not argue that (unknown) fate is the good (or God)? It stands before the law and it infuses both with its opposition to Justice and with the superiority of Justice over Law.’
Nina Power I suppose you still get a decision without a self (which I guess everyone hated in the 90s!), and duty without normativity....this 2012 version ‘Inspired by the searing images of the G20 and ‘Occupy’ protests, this tale of a young woman who dares to defy authority is more relevant than ever’ looks fun: http://fringetoronto.com/fringe-festival/shows/antigone/
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Bern Hard I blame Judith Butler. But then again, I always do.
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Jacob Bard-Rosenberg I kind of think that Judith Butler would be alright if all she was saying was just about Antigone.
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Jeremy Gilbert I was at a conference at York last summer and I was sat next to someone at dinner. I asked her what she was working on and she said something like ‘Oh, it’s very boring.’ I said ‘Well as long as it’s not about Antigone’. Unfortunately it was. Antigone used to be a low-scoring term in Paolo Bowman's conference-buzzword bingo game (surely ripe for revival as a FB app?), introduced at my request I believe.
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Nina Power Jeremy Gilbert: excellent story! Reminds me of the time in Berlin I went on a rant with some people I’d not met before and didn’t really know about the proliferation and general uselessness of ‘freelance curators’. It was almost as if the bad part of my brain on some level KNEW....
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Jeremy Gilbert Never ever ever slag off the art scene when in Berlin...
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Nina Power Oh they loved me for about 6 months in 2010, that was enough!
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Bill Bowring Antigone = Douzinas!
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Mark Hhaavvyy It starts with Lacan. The “established” version of Lacan’s Seminar VII in French, which contains an extended exploration of Antigone, was published in 1986. So, give it five years for other Continental types to come up with their own take, et voilà.
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Jacob Bard-Rosenberg Hang on, how does it start with Lacan and not with Hegel?
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Nina Power Starts again maybe....
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Michael Calderbank Second time as farce?
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Jason Smith Bartleby had not yet been discovered?
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Jordan Osserman Why does everyone hate antigone so much! I think it becomes a “thing” because the story poses legitimately interesting questions.
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Jordan Osserman (and hegel lacan)
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Nina Power Jason Smith so true, we could make a little decade-to-decade Classico-Biblical-literary timeline of anitheros/heroines: Abraham, Antigone, Job, Bartleby, Gregor Samsa, Josephine the Mouse Singer....
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Nina Power Jordan Osserman: no hate intended, Antigone’s cool. Was just making a note.
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Jason Smith next year, Odradek...
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Nina Power or perhaps Portnoy...
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Jason Smith That would be amazing 4 hours ago · Like
Jason Smith he who does not give way on his desire...
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Jacob Bard-Rosenberg I want the next one to be Kronos.
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Nina Power ‘I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!’
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Nina Power Who is the female Portnoy I wonder...
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Jacob Bard-Rosenberg Lol what a question. I know so many.
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Nina Power Er...lucky you...?
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Jacob Bard-Rosenberg I blame feminism.
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Nina Power I blame capitalism.
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Jacob Bard-Rosenberg It is strange though, right, that “no future” is pitched as a queer politics rather than one of perpetual masturbation.
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Kailash Sreeneevasin supply and demand.
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Nina Power Jacob Bard-Rosenberg: have you read Edelman? It basically is a defence of masturbation: ‘to the threat of the death drive we figure with the violent rush of a jouissance’
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Nina Power Read my piece on it! http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol8no2.../power_futurism.pdf
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Jacob Bard-Rosenberg I read the first couple of chapters and it annoyed me. It is currently on a pile of stuff to read next to my bed. Maybe I’ll finish it tonight.
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Nina Power It is annoying/interesting.
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Nina Power You will surely like the ‘fuck Annie’ passage...
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Nina Power “Fuck the social order and the Child in whose name we’re collectively terrorized; fuck Annie; fuck the waif from Les Mis; fuck the poor, innocent kid on the Net; fuck Laws both with capital ls and small; fuck the whole network of Symbolic relations and the future that serves as its prop.” Heh heh heh
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Jordan Osserman Maybe queer politics = perpetual masturbation
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John Bloomberg-Rissman Jacob, how did Hegel come to focus on Antigone? I don’t mean what did he say about the play and why, I mean, do you know how the play came to occupy the place it did for him? Who was talking about Antigone before Hegel, if anybody? Pardon my ignorance, and thanks!
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Jacob Bard-Rosenberg John Bloomberg-Rissman You’d be better asking Harrison Fluss
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John Bloomberg-Rissman Thanks, Jacob, I don’t know him but I’ll try via FB. I’ll probably drop your name ...
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Harrison Fluss The Antigone he talks about is actually Hegel’s own sister in Greek costume.
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John Bloomberg-Rissman Harrison: So when he read the play he just felt the sisterly thing and that made the play important to him? In other words, there were no particular historically antecedent texts Hegel might have been reading besides the play?
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Harrison Fluss There were those too, of course. If you want a good crash-course in Sophocles and German Idealism, look at the relevant sections if Kaufmann’s Hegel: A Reinterpretation.
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John Bloomberg-Rissman Thanks, Harrison, I'll see if I can get my hands on a copy (if worst comes to worst, is it worth buying?)
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Harrison Fluss Yes, I think it is.
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John Bloomberg-Rissman Thanks!
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Harrison Fluss No problem. I’m just your friendly neighborhood Hegelian.
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Louis-Georges Schwartz 1994-2004?: Everybody was trying to think the limit of the law while distributed subsumption and the universal market intensified the proclivity of various states around the core to govern via the limited law of the state of exception.
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Nina Power Louis-Georges Schwartz: that’s the kind of explanation I was looking for. Douzinas has some interesting remarks on the differences between English common law and Roman law in this respect. Better than my earlier intuition of ‘Greed wasn’t good after all, better shove in some ethics.’ 8 minutes ago · Like
Louis-Georges Schwartz I though it was an elaboration of said intuition. Thanks for the cite, I am looking forward to looking at D.
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[Note: Sources: Tristan Tzara, “Gadji Beri Bimba”, “Chanson Dada” (tr. Matthew Rothenberg), quoted in Jerome Rothenberg, “That Dada Strain (continued): Three Dada Poems with Music (Talking Heads, Noise 292, Ethel Waters)”, at Poems and Poetics, 26 Dec 013; Anne Carson, red doc>; blurb for THF Drenching, Unnatural White Inventions (Vol. 2), at THF Drenching, 25 Dec 013; THF Drenching, FB post, 26 Dec 013; JBR; Samuel Solomon, quoted in Andrea Brady, David Lloyd, Bad Press blurbs for Solomon’s Life of Riley; Iain Sinclair, “Iain Sinclair: ‘Unconsciously, I had been operating, all along, as a disenfranchised psychogeographer”, at Arthur, Feb 012; Di Przyczepy Zrykowe, comment appended to Piers Hugill, “An overview of contemporary British poetry since 1977”, at Fucinemute, 1 May 06; JBR; trailer for Grudge Match; Jeffrey A Bell, “Adrian Johnston, Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy”, at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 13 Dec 013; Charles Süsskind, quoted in Douglas Kahn, Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts, at University of California Press; Issa (memory quote); JBR; Philip Beitchman, “Walter Benjamin for Children, An Essay on his Radio Years. Jeffrey Mehlman, (University of Chicago Press, 1993). 117p”, at Esoterica, volume II (a review); JBR; FB conversation, 27 Dec 013]