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Assange and Information Restriction
In the November 8 New Yorker, Steve Coll expresses a series of reservations about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. He raises, only to set aside, doubts about Assange's character and recent charges of rape...
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Keats and the Activist Double Bind
Thirty years of secondary literature treats Keats’s political beliefs as a question: it overwhelmingly proceeds as though there is a relation between Keats’s writings and his radical views, and as...
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On "Binding" (Bindung)
One of Freud’s main ways of discussing trauma is to remark that excitations that are brought on by catastrophe and may cause trauma are “unbound.” The theory of binding [Bindung] goes all the way back...
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Two Hundred Years of University "Reform" and How to Dream It
Click on title. Please also see Issue 3 of Reclamationsin its entirety.photo: UC Irvine, March 4, 2010 (photo by Eyal Amiran)
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Outside the Free Speech Cage
Marx remarks that the “principle of public safety” can be a legitimate moral force, even though “measures of public safety” are usually “dictatorial measures.” But as he writes this, he is making the...
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Zizek is Not Okay
I was once among a group of people having a conversation about Zizek in a car speeding from Southampton to London. In his support, someone observed that “Zizek is not okay”—that his writings and his...
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"Free Speech" as Externalized Thought
In Political Spaces and Global War (trans. Elisabeth Fey, ed. Adam Sitze [Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010]), Carlo Galli suggests that demand for the “positive ‘freedom of’ speech and criticism” is...
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Now We Are Perfect
Stranded in Canton (2008) has been assembled by Robert Gordon from approximately thirty hours of videotape William Eggleston shot in the ’70s in Memphis, New Orleans, and Greenwood, Mississippi. The...
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Variations on the Name Obegg
or, Minervan statesmanship:www.thelondongraduateschool.co.uk
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An Exaggerated Sense of Deprivation
If, wanting to know more about Israel’s increased razing of Bedouin villages in the Negev this year, you visit the electronic home of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, you will see a curious piece of...
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Naive Melody
I am not going to become a "blogger" proper, someone who writes quickly to moving events. But today I can't help it.The Tunisian and Egyptian movements seem different from anything that has happened in...
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Revolution-Restoration, 1814--
Revolution-Restoration, 1814— is a half-hour DV film composed of found footage, famous cinematic footage, and, to a smaller extent, shot footage. The cinematic material has been altered in all cases...
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Whose Bankruptcy? Marx after 1848
Among the alarmingly familiar-sounding things that Marx observed in the wake of the “failed” 1848 revolutions, the most familiar-sounding at the moment are his reflections on credit and “confidence.”...
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Soanyway River
Most of what’s has been written in English on Zabriskie Point was written when it came out in 1970. Commentators (mostly Italian) in the post-neorealist milieu taking Antonioni to task for not...
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Realism and Passive Revolution (with Gramsci)
Political realism is something larger than Cold War game theory; it's the grounding of political options in a hegemonic philosophy of reality, a system that is supposedly not political but just a...
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A Nameless Thing
Moses Hess’s phrase “the German misère” lends a name to the perception that Germany is continually waiting for its revolution, and to the absurd quality of this wait:die deutsche Bourgeoisie scheint...
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Telepathy for rioters
Guy Debord’s question about the Watts riots--“Who has defended the Los Angeles rioters in the terms they deserve?”--is still a challenge upon the 45th anniversary of the riots, in which 34 people died....
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Manzanar by Night
Driving back to L.A. from the Owens Valley, we decided to take the turnoff to Manzanar even though it was already completely dark. We hadn't been there before. It was hard to tell what we were looking...
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"Not Non-Violent Civil Disobedience"
UCB Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s statement rationalizing police beatings of unarmed and unthreatening protesters relies on a contentious contrast between those who “chose to be arrested peacefully”...
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