blah-femetag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-5002272010-08-23T11:43:20+01:00a blog for now, for thinking about politics and what being in the present might meanTypePadthe sonic in the political and the socialtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d9acf53ef0133f342e11a970b2010-08-23T11:43:20+01:002010-08-23T11:46:58+01:00The difficulties we face in coming to understand the sonic relation and its relation, in turn, with the social relation more broadly are symptomatic, I suggest, of a crisis in the imagination of the common. The key to thinking the...blahfemehttp://blahfeme.typepad.com/blahfeme/2010/08/rhe-sonic-in-the-political-and-the-social.htmlmalign malign everywheretag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d9acf53ef0133ee715904970b2010-05-25T19:00:09+01:002010-05-25T19:00:09+01:00I have, for some time now, been waking to the realisation that there are some that I 'know', some that occupy space near me and who have seemed until now thoroughly benign, good even, that are, to put it no...blahfemehttp://blahfeme.typepad.com/blahfeme/2010/05/malign-malign-everywhere.htmlReading Serrestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d9acf53ef0133ed79331c970b2010-05-19T15:00:00+01:002010-05-19T15:00:00+01:00The noise is the thing. Bring it. Between message, channel and target, the noise is the thing. It perturbs, disturbs and makes three out of 2, 4 out of three. I’m reading Serres’s The Parasite and in that elusive third...blahfemehttp://blahfeme.typepad.com/blahfeme/2010/05/reading-serres.htmlwhen the wolves cease their baying: the silences of Arcadiatag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d9acf53ef0133ec8e98aa970b2010-05-12T01:11:00+01:002010-05-12T01:11:00+01:00It should be noted that the silence/noise relationship, the relationship between a blockage in the signal channel and its saturation (or breach), is not merely reciprocal, but intimately (ontologically) co-dependent. Pastorale, as one of the mechanisms enacted in the early...blahfemehttp://blahfeme.typepad.com/blahfeme/2010/05/when-the-wolves-cease-their-baying-the-silences-of-arcadia.htmlEsposito's communitastag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d9acf53ef01347fbe8a05970c2010-04-23T00:54:00+01:002010-04-23T00:54:00+01:00So what are we to make of this performative authenticity, if its very naming occasions this dipping and swooning of the analytical language that attempts to grasp it? How are we to understand it, precisely as we bear witness to...blahfemehttp://blahfeme.typepad.com/blahfeme/2010/04/so-what-are-we-to-make-of-this-performative-authenticity-if-its-very-naming-occasions-this-dipping-and-swooning-of-the-analy.htmlon what is modern in mentag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d9acf53ef01347fbe77ae970c2010-04-14T00:52:00+01:002010-04-14T00:52:00+01:00European modernity’s fateful entanglement with the noisy roar of the public domain and its bifurcation of the public and the private domains has a number of striking consequences for the sonic component of its new social order in which subjects...blahfemehttp://blahfeme.typepad.com/blahfeme/2010/04/on-what-is-modern-in-men.htmlSpring shmingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d9acf53ef01347fc34eae970c2010-04-09T20:08:46+01:002010-04-09T20:08:46+01:00My friends have just gone out running. Every spring this seems to happen – as the sap rises so does the insufferably pious optimism of those who think they’re going to lose weight. It’s not that I resent their losing...blahfemehttp://blahfeme.typepad.com/blahfeme/2010/04/spring-shming.htmlat home, strange, stilltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d9acf53ef0133ec8e75c0970b2010-04-09T00:50:07+01:002010-04-09T00:50:07+01:00M. Night Shyamalan’s film The Village (2004), like many of his movies, deals with boundaries and the fear of the trespass of the other into the heart of community and, as such, structurally inverts our ubiquitous cult-fear of being stolen...blahfemehttp://blahfeme.typepad.com/blahfeme/2010/04/at-home-strange-still.html