Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The creation and continuation of discourses as explored by Foucault is both an external exclusion of falseness from truth and an internal organization of that truth in order to reproduce itself. This reproduction occurs through the limits of commentary and practices of knowledge that can add to the discourse but not change its overall structure. The discourse is the system of meaning that influences human interaction with reality by determining truth.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Considering the concern over the Large Hadron Collider causing a black hole, and the rise of vacated houses due to the mortgage crisis, this can be a very symbolic work of art.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Badiou examined the infinite nature of reality and the finite structures that attempt to explain and control reality. When the event disrupts the determination of structures, there is a need to make decisions on the reality that was external to structures. This results in new structures that can be used differently to escape the absolute determination of previous structures. The creation of new ideas in this process can illustrate the infinite nature of thought itself.
Friday, September 12, 2008
The 40th anniversary of the tumultuous year of 1968 can be epitomized by the month of May in Paris. It was a time where art and revolutionary politics intersected and nourished each other to such a degree that there was a space of opportunity that could have changed the world.
Monday, September 08, 2008
Here is an example of the various websites that sell t-shirts online. The t-shirt can be considered to be the most functional of clothing, but has the chance to have multiple personalized designs.
Monday, September 01, 2008
In the work of various philosophers from Europe, under the umbrella term of Continental Philosophy, there has been an emphasis on immanence. This involves taking apart a history of metaphysics in order to show that transcendence does not adequately deal with reality, being, or knowledge. Immanence can even be the best description of a progressive political practice that has always opposed structures of power.
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