I have an interview this afternoon for teaching work in my department. I am considering turning up and answering all of the questions with quotations from Walter Benjamin’s The Destructive Character. I imagine it will go something like this: Are…
Sometimes I’m happy that there seems to be a big conversation going on about labour and art – and what the labour in artworks is like. That is important, at least in understanding artworks’ social immersion, that they are inextricably…
I am tired of taxonomies of alterity, as if they were a substitute for difficult discussions of history and social activity. I am tired of questions about how oppression functions and oppressive relations are constructed being left unanswered by words…
When you put a potato in the oven it forms a hard shell to protect itself from the overstimulation of the heat. This much I have extrapolated from Freud.
Such a shame that owls aren’t mammals. Imagine how much truth there would be in owl cheese.
Mass unemployment is the greatest of all the modernist projects.
No doubt that Jameson’s talk at the CUNY Graduate Centre will be watched by loads of people in the next few days. Here are a few critical notes that I’ve thrown together in the middle of the night immediately after…
1) It is striking how deep the will goes to fulfil idiotic demands from the state. I know of no single department in the UK that refuses to submit Research Exercise responses. In almost every department these exercises are a…
Today I was reminded of a piece of writing I did last summer. I didn’t publish it at the time, when all and sundry were facebooking and tweeting David’s piece, because it was unfinished. It’s still unfinished but I thought…
This is a little ramble I posted on facebook last night. Maybe it is complete bollocks, but also maybe it will help us to consider struggles over the wage and wage-form differently from how they have been considered in a…