Guattari

Autour du concept

by Pierre Bonneels

The Sovereign and the Sovereign: Shifting Fountainheads of Production in Pope's Windsor Forest and Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

by Beau Wuthrich

This paper focuses on the works of Alexander Pope and William Blake as reflective of a shift of recognized and... more This paper focuses on the works of Alexander Pope and William Blake as reflective of a shift of recognized and dominant economic regimes, from the monarch to capital, in the 18th Century. In it, I take a critical approach, making use of Deleuze and Guattari's figure of the socius as well as Sartre's theory of bad faith.

Reading in the Future: Literacy and the Time of the Internet

by David R Cole

Abstract: David R. Cole’s “Reading in the Future: Literacy and
the Time of the Internet” locates the literacies... more Abstract: David R. Cole’s “Reading in the Future: Literacy and
the Time of the Internet” locates the literacies of the internet
– itself read as “the end game of western technology” or the
Machina Mundi, the Great Chain of the World that has a centre
that is everywhere and a circumference that is nowhere – in a
contradictory space. But Cole also self-consciously locates his
own writing at a moment in time when the initial technological
hype of the internet is subsiding in the face of the boredom of
informational overload and the internet is emerging as both an
“unlimited realm of resource” and the site of a brand of “western
nihilism containing a sense of relativism, collapse of meaning
and cultural schizo-cynicism”. Remarkably, in the course of his
argument, Coles does not appropriate the internet, does not
simplify it according to his own vision of its potential or
mission – but allows it to remain a place of cultural
schizophrenia, to be navigated only by means of the corresponding learning, acceptance, and practice of “schizo literacy”.

Shelley's Green Desert

by Tim Morton

Published in Jonathan Bate, ed., Studies in Romanticism 35.3 (1996), 409–430.

An in-depth account of the ecological poetics of Percy Shelley. An in-depth account of the ecological poetics of Percy Shelley.

Imperial Measures: Dune, Ecology and Romantic Consumerism

by Tim Morton

Published in Romanticism on the Net 21 (February, 2001).

The Dune trilogy taps into the long history of what I call the poetics of spice. The Dune trilogy taps into the long history of what I call the poetics of spice.

Urban Play: Imaginatively Responsible Behavior as an Alternative to Neoliberalism

by Fred Landers

(forthcoming), Arts in Psychotherapy. This draft submitted on June 7, 2011. Small edits made on October 15, 2011.

Urban Play is a budding form of social activism in which groups of friends engage in improvised play with each other... more Urban Play is a budding form of social activism in which groups of friends engage in improvised play with each other and with strangers in public places. This work may contribute to social justice by helping participants discover opportunities for change. If neoliberalism encourages the pursuit of narrowly defined self-interests, neoliberal institutions may be maintained by the fear that these interests are threatened. By allowing participants to define the actions that are uniquely possible among them, play appears to offer an alternative to neoliberalism. What has been learned so far from playing in public also suggests a fresh perspective on Developmental Transformations, the form of drama therapy that inspired Urban Play.