Marc Anton
@drmarcanton.bsky.social
Lecturer in culture, media, and philosophy. Interests: ecology, process studies, neomaterialism, posthumanism. Admin, Deleuze-Foucault @ FB: http://bit.ly/3oqbyPG
Goethe waging war on doom scrolling over two hundred years ago:
"Having always been convinced, and increasingly so of late years, that newspapers exist essentially in order to string the multitude along and warp its judgment... I have stopped reading them." (Annals, 1808)
"Having always been convinced, and increasingly so of late years, that newspapers exist essentially in order to string the multitude along and warp its judgment... I have stopped reading them." (Annals, 1808)
July 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Goethe waging war on doom scrolling over two hundred years ago:
"Having always been convinced, and increasingly so of late years, that newspapers exist essentially in order to string the multitude along and warp its judgment... I have stopped reading them." (Annals, 1808)
"Having always been convinced, and increasingly so of late years, that newspapers exist essentially in order to string the multitude along and warp its judgment... I have stopped reading them." (Annals, 1808)
Nikola Tesla's remark here (from a 1931 NYT interview celebrating his 75th birthday) aligns with Bergson and Deleuze in seeing reality as continuous change and denying stable individuality and resemblance, though it leans more toward mechanistic determinism than their creative visions of becoming.
July 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Nikola Tesla's remark here (from a 1931 NYT interview celebrating his 75th birthday) aligns with Bergson and Deleuze in seeing reality as continuous change and denying stable individuality and resemblance, though it leans more toward mechanistic determinism than their creative visions of becoming.
"A world market extends to the ends of the earth before passing into the galaxy: even the skies become horizontal."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 97)
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 97)
June 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"A world market extends to the ends of the earth before passing into the galaxy: even the skies become horizontal."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 97)
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 97)
Canetti (1943/1978): "I cannot become modest; too many things burn me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me. [...] I want to feel everything in me before I think it."
June 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Canetti (1943/1978): "I cannot become modest; too many things burn me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me. [...] I want to feel everything in me before I think it."
June 25... The day Blade Runner arrived and Foucault departed.
June 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
June 25... The day Blade Runner arrived and Foucault departed.
There's a revelatory moment in learning where you're so tuned into a thinker's mapping of the world that you start anticipating concepts and connections before you've read them.
June 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
There's a revelatory moment in learning where you're so tuned into a thinker's mapping of the world that you start anticipating concepts and connections before you've read them.
"The essential quality of poetry is that it makes a new effort of attention, and 'discovers' a new world within the known world."
—D.H. Lawrence
('Chaos in Poetry,' 1928)
—D.H. Lawrence
('Chaos in Poetry,' 1928)
May 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"The essential quality of poetry is that it makes a new effort of attention, and 'discovers' a new world within the known world."
—D.H. Lawrence
('Chaos in Poetry,' 1928)
—D.H. Lawrence
('Chaos in Poetry,' 1928)
The successor to Nietzsche's typewriter . . .
May 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The successor to Nietzsche's typewriter . . .
"We are not in the world, we become with the world; we become by contemplating it.
Everything is vision, becoming.
We become universes.
Becoming animal, plant, molecular, becoming zero."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 169-170)
Everything is vision, becoming.
We become universes.
Becoming animal, plant, molecular, becoming zero."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 169-170)
May 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"We are not in the world, we become with the world; we become by contemplating it.
Everything is vision, becoming.
We become universes.
Becoming animal, plant, molecular, becoming zero."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 169-170)
Everything is vision, becoming.
We become universes.
Becoming animal, plant, molecular, becoming zero."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 169-170)
"It may be said of man that he continually feels the need of what does not exist."
—Paul Valéry
('Politics of the Mind,' 1932/1962: 97)
—Paul Valéry
('Politics of the Mind,' 1932/1962: 97)
May 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"It may be said of man that he continually feels the need of what does not exist."
—Paul Valéry
('Politics of the Mind,' 1932/1962: 97)
—Paul Valéry
('Politics of the Mind,' 1932/1962: 97)
"The greatest possible poet is—the nervous system.
Inventor of everything—or say, rather, the only poet."
—Paul Valéry
(Analects: Collected Works, Vol 14, 1970: 541)
Inventor of everything—or say, rather, the only poet."
—Paul Valéry
(Analects: Collected Works, Vol 14, 1970: 541)
May 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"The greatest possible poet is—the nervous system.
Inventor of everything—or say, rather, the only poet."
—Paul Valéry
(Analects: Collected Works, Vol 14, 1970: 541)
Inventor of everything—or say, rather, the only poet."
—Paul Valéry
(Analects: Collected Works, Vol 14, 1970: 541)
"Schizo-analysis can be done anywhere, anytime, with anyone, without a contract, without transference."
—Deleuze
('Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Interview on Anti-Oedipus with Raymond Bellour', 1973/2020: 239; trans. Ames Hodges)
—Deleuze
('Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Interview on Anti-Oedipus with Raymond Bellour', 1973/2020: 239; trans. Ames Hodges)
May 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Schizo-analysis can be done anywhere, anytime, with anyone, without a contract, without transference."
—Deleuze
('Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Interview on Anti-Oedipus with Raymond Bellour', 1973/2020: 239; trans. Ames Hodges)
—Deleuze
('Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Interview on Anti-Oedipus with Raymond Bellour', 1973/2020: 239; trans. Ames Hodges)
I suspect this was really a collab between Paul Virilio (philosophy), Quentin Tarantino (cinematography), David Lynch (sound design), and David Byrne (choreography) – disguised as a Belgian rock band:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ctO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ctO...
dEUS - Theme From Turnpike (from In A Bar, Under The Sea)
YouTube video by dEUSbe
www.youtube.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I suspect this was really a collab between Paul Virilio (philosophy), Quentin Tarantino (cinematography), David Lynch (sound design), and David Byrne (choreography) – disguised as a Belgian rock band:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ctO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ctO...
Soul and funk invite possession:
Have you got soul?
Who got da funk?
Jazz simply asks:
Can you keep the feel going?
You can't possess jazz; you inhabit it and propagate its flows.
Have you got soul?
Who got da funk?
Jazz simply asks:
Can you keep the feel going?
You can't possess jazz; you inhabit it and propagate its flows.
May 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Soul and funk invite possession:
Have you got soul?
Who got da funk?
Jazz simply asks:
Can you keep the feel going?
You can't possess jazz; you inhabit it and propagate its flows.
Have you got soul?
Who got da funk?
Jazz simply asks:
Can you keep the feel going?
You can't possess jazz; you inhabit it and propagate its flows.
Might have to steal this line . . .
May 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Might have to steal this line . . .
McLuhan '58:
"[I]n the 1840's when the telegraph was in a very early phase, Edgar Allan Poe [...] invented ... the symbolist poem and the detective story]. [...] It has taken us 100 years from then to realize that the meaning of the electronic revolution is a 'Do-it-yourself movement.'"
"[I]n the 1840's when the telegraph was in a very early phase, Edgar Allan Poe [...] invented ... the symbolist poem and the detective story]. [...] It has taken us 100 years from then to realize that the meaning of the electronic revolution is a 'Do-it-yourself movement.'"
May 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
McLuhan '58:
"[I]n the 1840's when the telegraph was in a very early phase, Edgar Allan Poe [...] invented ... the symbolist poem and the detective story]. [...] It has taken us 100 years from then to realize that the meaning of the electronic revolution is a 'Do-it-yourself movement.'"
"[I]n the 1840's when the telegraph was in a very early phase, Edgar Allan Poe [...] invented ... the symbolist poem and the detective story]. [...] It has taken us 100 years from then to realize that the meaning of the electronic revolution is a 'Do-it-yourself movement.'"
A brief chat between a musician (Stephen Morris), scientist (Brian Cox), and designer (Peter Saville), that touches on physics, representation, aesthetics, music, becoming, etc.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj8_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj8_...
Peter Saville, Stephen Morris, and Brian Cox on CP1919
YouTube video by Pace Gallery
www.youtube.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A brief chat between a musician (Stephen Morris), scientist (Brian Cox), and designer (Peter Saville), that touches on physics, representation, aesthetics, music, becoming, etc.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj8_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj8_...
As you will know, there's been that long-running theory that the US president is rather like a puppet who actually has little real influence and simply performs the role that deeper systems of power require of him. For me at least, Trump has—regrettably, in this case—put that theory to rest.
April 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
As you will know, there's been that long-running theory that the US president is rather like a puppet who actually has little real influence and simply performs the role that deeper systems of power require of him. For me at least, Trump has—regrettably, in this case—put that theory to rest.
In a strange twist of kinship, McLuhan's transatlantic sparring partner, Raymond Williams, once wrote: "Where poets run, scholars follow." If they'd managed to get past their differences, I suspect they'd have found they had much in common. For starters, they both followed poets around.
April 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
In a strange twist of kinship, McLuhan's transatlantic sparring partner, Raymond Williams, once wrote: "Where poets run, scholars follow." If they'd managed to get past their differences, I suspect they'd have found they had much in common. For starters, they both followed poets around.
"[T]he web of this primeval tapestry [Aeschylus's The Oresteia] makes me marvel. Past, present, and future are so felicitously interwoven that in beholding it you become a seer yourself… And that, when all is said and done, is the ultimate triumph of poetry…"
—J.W. von Goethe (1816)
—J.W. von Goethe (1816)
April 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"[T]he web of this primeval tapestry [Aeschylus's The Oresteia] makes me marvel. Past, present, and future are so felicitously interwoven that in beholding it you become a seer yourself… And that, when all is said and done, is the ultimate triumph of poetry…"
—J.W. von Goethe (1816)
—J.W. von Goethe (1816)
"The last fifty years brought a different vibration through inventions of telephones, radios, television. What has happened to artificial things has happened to the body. The movements are essentially the same, but the timing is different."
—Martha Graham (1937)
—Martha Graham (1937)
March 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The last fifty years brought a different vibration through inventions of telephones, radios, television. What has happened to artificial things has happened to the body. The movements are essentially the same, but the timing is different."
—Martha Graham (1937)
—Martha Graham (1937)
Montaigne, 1588:
('On Vanity', Selected Essays, 1943: 261; trans. D.M. Frame)
('On Vanity', Selected Essays, 1943: 261; trans. D.M. Frame)
March 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Montaigne, 1588:
('On Vanity', Selected Essays, 1943: 261; trans. D.M. Frame)
('On Vanity', Selected Essays, 1943: 261; trans. D.M. Frame)
Lacan (1967): "M. Deleuze ... writes on masochism undoubtedly the best text that has ever been written! [...] [T]his text really anticipates everything that I am, now, going to have effectively to say about it... [All] the analytic texts [must be] remade in this new perspective."
March 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Lacan (1967): "M. Deleuze ... writes on masochism undoubtedly the best text that has ever been written! [...] [T]his text really anticipates everything that I am, now, going to have effectively to say about it... [All] the analytic texts [must be] remade in this new perspective."
Heisenberg:
"If harmony in a society depends on the common interpretation of the 'one', of the unity behind the multitude of phenomena, the language of the poets may be more important than that of the scientists."
(The Athens Meeting 1964; published in 1966: 42)
"If harmony in a society depends on the common interpretation of the 'one', of the unity behind the multitude of phenomena, the language of the poets may be more important than that of the scientists."
(The Athens Meeting 1964; published in 1966: 42)
March 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Heisenberg:
"If harmony in a society depends on the common interpretation of the 'one', of the unity behind the multitude of phenomena, the language of the poets may be more important than that of the scientists."
(The Athens Meeting 1964; published in 1966: 42)
"If harmony in a society depends on the common interpretation of the 'one', of the unity behind the multitude of phenomena, the language of the poets may be more important than that of the scientists."
(The Athens Meeting 1964; published in 1966: 42)