deterritorialization
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A place of theory on both #Substack and #Medium.
Open for collective becomings of all sorts.
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Open for collective becomings of all sorts.
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deterritorialization is a Medium publication devoted to critical theory, psychoanalysis, radical philosophy, and everything that fits in-between or remains on the periphery of the above—technology, culture, politics, economy, etc.
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A few great pieces have been published in our journal so far this month. This one, in particular, deserves as much attention as possible.
The Slander of the Commons
Ryan Ward explains the long tradition of justifying enclosure based on asserting the flawed morality of the commoners
medium.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A few great pieces have been published in our journal so far this month. This one, in particular, deserves as much attention as possible.
They don't see the irony in their nationalistic, genocidal practices, so why would they see it here?
June 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
They don't see the irony in their nationalistic, genocidal practices, so why would they see it here?
Every successful act of liberation, every movement, turns its own history into a manual, a technique of government(ality). Let us not forget this, especially today.
Happy #Mayday, comrades.
Happy #Mayday, comrades.
May 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Every successful act of liberation, every movement, turns its own history into a manual, a technique of government(ality). Let us not forget this, especially today.
Happy #Mayday, comrades.
Happy #Mayday, comrades.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure there's actually a place for philosophy in social media. It just doesn't sell well.
April 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure there's actually a place for philosophy in social media. It just doesn't sell well.
There's this popular take about the “fate” of mankind, especially with relation to climate change. As is usually the case with the term itself, it plays with its metaphysical definition that understands fate as a predetermined journey from point A to point B.
April 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
There's this popular take about the “fate” of mankind, especially with relation to climate change. As is usually the case with the term itself, it plays with its metaphysical definition that understands fate as a predetermined journey from point A to point B.
#BlackMirror S07E01 is, for now at least, in a genre on its own--subscription horror. I believe this type of story will become all too common in the near future.
April 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#BlackMirror S07E01 is, for now at least, in a genre on its own--subscription horror. I believe this type of story will become all too common in the near future.
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I have a new article on depression and critique out in Constellation - in case anyone needed more depression on their timelines! I discuss to what extent, and how, feelings of depression can be politicized and channeled into resistance.
Depression, Critique, and Critical Theory as Political Therapy
Critical theorists, especially in the Frankfurt School tradition, claim that normative thought and critique arise from experiences of suffering and oppression. It seems intuitive that oppression some...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I have a new article on depression and critique out in Constellation - in case anyone needed more depression on their timelines! I discuss to what extent, and how, feelings of depression can be politicized and channeled into resistance.
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From the Archive: Andrea Mubi Brighenti, 'On Territorology: Towards a General Science of Territory' - conceptualizes territorial components, technologies, effects, and their interplay, in order to establish the main lines of inquiry for territorology. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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April 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
From the Archive: Andrea Mubi Brighenti, 'On Territorology: Towards a General Science of Territory' - conceptualizes territorial components, technologies, effects, and their interplay, in order to establish the main lines of inquiry for territorology. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
I sort of understand the appeal that Taylor Sheridan’s writings have to many people worldwide. His neoconservative shows (Yellowstone, Landman, etc.) with socially charged yet oversimplified commentaries and humanizing gestures, are what make them so popular.
April 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I sort of understand the appeal that Taylor Sheridan’s writings have to many people worldwide. His neoconservative shows (Yellowstone, Landman, etc.) with socially charged yet oversimplified commentaries and humanizing gestures, are what make them so popular.
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"attacks on the administrative state and on the universities are very much of a piece with this aim to reconstitute collective life on far-right terms. ... A left cultural world has been built before, ... and there is no alternative to building it again"
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Aziz Rana, Constitutional Collapse — Sidecar
Trump and the law.
newleftreview.org
March 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
"attacks on the administrative state and on the universities are very much of a piece with this aim to reconstitute collective life on far-right terms. ... A left cultural world has been built before, ... and there is no alternative to building it again"
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Revolution is (or at least ought to be) an all-encompassing and pervasive phenomenon. Its aim should be (and this is especially true of the stakes today—the possibility of a future) the refashioning of every element not only of the world we share but also of the one we share with everything else.
The Anti-Revolutionary Left
And its ‘actors’
medium.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Revolution is (or at least ought to be) an all-encompassing and pervasive phenomenon. Its aim should be (and this is especially true of the stakes today—the possibility of a future) the refashioning of every element not only of the world we share but also of the one we share with everything else.
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Musk complies with Turkish autocracy’s requests to suspend pro-democracy accounts to “ensure X remains available” for Turks.
He didn’t seem to care about X being shut for Brazilians last year when a democracy requested far-right account suspensions, which he rejected on the basis of “free speech”.
He didn’t seem to care about X being shut for Brazilians last year when a democracy requested far-right account suspensions, which he rejected on the basis of “free speech”.
Elon Musk's social media platform X has suspended several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey amid widespread civil unrest in the country.
Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.
www.politico.eu
March 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Musk complies with Turkish autocracy’s requests to suspend pro-democracy accounts to “ensure X remains available” for Turks.
He didn’t seem to care about X being shut for Brazilians last year when a democracy requested far-right account suspensions, which he rejected on the basis of “free speech”.
He didn’t seem to care about X being shut for Brazilians last year when a democracy requested far-right account suspensions, which he rejected on the basis of “free speech”.
How do we survive this constant monitoring, through stats and analytics, of how well we manage to drag and hold each other's attention?
However it is, it won't last.
However it is, it won't last.
March 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
How do we survive this constant monitoring, through stats and analytics, of how well we manage to drag and hold each other's attention?
However it is, it won't last.
However it is, it won't last.
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The NIH’s mission is to "to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability."
It can't achieve that mission if the review process becomes hostage to political whims.
It can't achieve that mission if the review process becomes hostage to political whims.
March 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The NIH’s mission is to "to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability."
It can't achieve that mission if the review process becomes hostage to political whims.
It can't achieve that mission if the review process becomes hostage to political whims.
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Isn't that just another way to say "we want to be productive as well," thus, you know, holding to the very ethos of the system we should be fighting; a system which turns life with all it's marvelous disharmonies into a competition of production?
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Isn't that just another way to say "we want to be productive as well," thus, you know, holding to the very ethos of the system we should be fighting; a system which turns life with all it's marvelous disharmonies into a competition of production?
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For @thenation.com, I reflect on Aaron Bushnell’s death & the limits of protest.
I deny that he self-immolated to raise awareness, or because he thought he could quell the Gaza genocide, & I claim that part of his message was: watch this, nothing will change.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
I deny that he self-immolated to raise awareness, or because he thought he could quell the Gaza genocide, & I claim that part of his message was: watch this, nothing will change.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
What Aaron Bushnell Is Still Teaching Us
His protest was both a rejection of the idea that human life is expendable and an acknowledgment that, for so many, it already has been.
www.thenation.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
For @thenation.com, I reflect on Aaron Bushnell’s death & the limits of protest.
I deny that he self-immolated to raise awareness, or because he thought he could quell the Gaza genocide, & I claim that part of his message was: watch this, nothing will change.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
I deny that he self-immolated to raise awareness, or because he thought he could quell the Gaza genocide, & I claim that part of his message was: watch this, nothing will change.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
I'm tired of people tired of political art, backing one that deals with some universal humanness. "We need to know what it is to be human, not what it's to be the one who is treated as non-human."
Keep your art made in indifference and boredom for those you belong to--the indifferent and bored.
Keep your art made in indifference and boredom for those you belong to--the indifferent and bored.
March 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I'm tired of people tired of political art, backing one that deals with some universal humanness. "We need to know what it is to be human, not what it's to be the one who is treated as non-human."
Keep your art made in indifference and boredom for those you belong to--the indifferent and bored.
Keep your art made in indifference and boredom for those you belong to--the indifferent and bored.
Mahmoud Khalil asks, “Who has the right to have rights?” in his dictated letter from prison, which he reads over the phone. Isn't this question already pointing to the absurdly problematic notion of rights, of law, and of jurisprudence more generally?
March 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Mahmoud Khalil asks, “Who has the right to have rights?” in his dictated letter from prison, which he reads over the phone. Isn't this question already pointing to the absurdly problematic notion of rights, of law, and of jurisprudence more generally?
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The recording of my talk at @eflux.bsky.social is now online.
If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance.
vimeo.com/1058822880/7...
If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance.
vimeo.com/1058822880/7...
2/27/25 - Pietro Bianchi
This is "2/27/25 - Pietro Bianchi" by e-flux on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The recording of my talk at @eflux.bsky.social is now online.
If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance.
vimeo.com/1058822880/7...
If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance.
vimeo.com/1058822880/7...
This one really makes you think about the dimensions of the war happening before us. One not between AI and us, but between AI and all the operative algorithms making the virtual possible.
Teknemachia.
Teknemachia.
My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping:
www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...
www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...
AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.
www.404media.co
March 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This one really makes you think about the dimensions of the war happening before us. One not between AI and us, but between AI and all the operative algorithms making the virtual possible.
Teknemachia.
Teknemachia.
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Wooww - that is such a fantastic episode on Stuart Hall's marxism and method to investigate historically specific and antagonistic social relations that produce capitalist social formations.
Amazing work by @thedigradio.bsky.social!
open.spotify.com/episode/5ODA...
Amazing work by @thedigradio.bsky.social!
open.spotify.com/episode/5ODA...
Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
The Dig · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Wooww - that is such a fantastic episode on Stuart Hall's marxism and method to investigate historically specific and antagonistic social relations that produce capitalist social formations.
Amazing work by @thedigradio.bsky.social!
open.spotify.com/episode/5ODA...
Amazing work by @thedigradio.bsky.social!
open.spotify.com/episode/5ODA...
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Artisans and communists, laborers and anarchists, took over the city of Paris and established the Commune on this day in 1871.
March 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Artisans and communists, laborers and anarchists, took over the city of Paris and established the Commune on this day in 1871.
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I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist
March 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist
One of Rafael Holmberg's pieces for #deterritorialization, in which the author examines how #literature reflects the contradictions of social reality through the concept of the "Real."
#philosophy #psychoanalysis #society #culture
#philosophy #psychoanalysis #society #culture
The Fictitiousness of Reality
On the psychoanalytic Symbolic and the relevance of literature
medium.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
One of Rafael Holmberg's pieces for #deterritorialization, in which the author examines how #literature reflects the contradictions of social reality through the concept of the "Real."
#philosophy #psychoanalysis #society #culture
#philosophy #psychoanalysis #society #culture
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Realized I should mention this here—the collection of Lise Vogel’s essays I’ve been working on for the past two years. Lots of hard to find & out of print stuff, it tells the story of 50 years of Marxism & Feminism. “The Contested Domain” out this November w/ Pluto!
www.amazon.com/Contested-Do...
www.amazon.com/Contested-Do...
March 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Realized I should mention this here—the collection of Lise Vogel’s essays I’ve been working on for the past two years. Lots of hard to find & out of print stuff, it tells the story of 50 years of Marxism & Feminism. “The Contested Domain” out this November w/ Pluto!
www.amazon.com/Contested-Do...
www.amazon.com/Contested-Do...