To say something is overdetermined is to say that it is a flawed construct that nevertheless has a certain hand in (re)determining itself through the medium of its affects in the world.
Tag Archive — theory
Zizekian Moment
I think I just experienced a Žižekian moment. Bear with me as I work out what I think I mean by this… Something I have always admired in the work of Slavoj Žižek is his ability to excise a Symbolic anchor from someplace in the world of words and images (which could be anything, a [...]
Moments Worth Holding On To
I’m sitting in the Drake Café, at the border of West Queen West in Toronto, sipping a coffee and marking the last paper of my summer graduate course. After an hour-long walk up through Roncesvalles village where I live, and down Queen, in increasing frustration as I looked for a non-Starbucks café open past 8pm [...]
“Our best machines are made of sunshine”
Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum and those machines are eminently portable, mobile – a matter of immense human pain in Detroit and Singapore. ~ Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” Speaking of art theory, sometimes [...]
Art Theory?
If bands like Pink Floyd, tapping deep into an experimental vein of music, were producing something thought of as “Art Rock,” is it useful to think of experimental thought as “Art Theory”?
