Friday, April 17, 2009



Attended a fine lecture yesterday given by Jason Read of U of Southern Maine entitled "The Production of Subjectivity: From Transindividuality to the Commons."

In the lecture he discussed Deleuzian ontology via Gilbert Simondon.

I thought Simondon would be a good research project for today:

A Short List of Gilbert Simondon’s Vocabulary

A Sketch of Gilbert Simondon

dephasing infrastructure is a five week seminar centered on Gilbert Simondon's article "Sur la Techno-esthetique.


Although none of Simondon's entire books have been translated into English, here are a few translations that have been made:

On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, Part 1, link to PDF file of 1980 translation.

The Individual and Its Physico-Biological Genesis, Part 1, link to HTML file of unpublished 2007 translation.

The Individual and Its Physico-Biological Genesis, Part 2, link to HTML file of unpublished 2007 translation.



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John Lennon & Yoko Ono "Two Virgins" the film version in two parts:







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Daniel Green is starting a new critical journal online.




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Dave Macdowell "Paints Acrylic on Canvas in the Lowbrow/ Pop Surrealism movement. His focus is on Childhood Fantasy and our Contemporary Cultural Nightmare":