Martin Roberts
@dokoissho.bsky.social
and a rollicking good watch it was too 😉
October 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
and a rollicking good watch it was too 😉
Serres would undoubtedly endorse the view that he is an intellectual parasite, but add that we all are. I find him pretty much unreadable, but some are braver than I - Stephen Brown’s intro to the parasite is about as clear as it gets. I’ve thought many times of pitching a book on parasitic media
September 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Serres would undoubtedly endorse the view that he is an intellectual parasite, but add that we all are. I find him pretty much unreadable, but some are braver than I - Stephen Brown’s intro to the parasite is about as clear as it gets. I’ve thought many times of pitching a book on parasitic media
I initially read “drive” as “drivel” 😉
September 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I initially read “drive” as “drivel” 😉
I think “libidinal” is one of the most over-used terms in the theoretical arsenal. Easy to make Lyotard the (Girardian) scapegoat, of course, but I think Deleuze and Guattari are mostly to blame for subsequent theoretical orthodoxies. I’m more interested in Michel Serres’s theory of the parasite
September 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I think “libidinal” is one of the most over-used terms in the theoretical arsenal. Easy to make Lyotard the (Girardian) scapegoat, of course, but I think Deleuze and Guattari are mostly to blame for subsequent theoretical orthodoxies. I’m more interested in Michel Serres’s theory of the parasite
I know… but as you know funny words can often lead to interesting new conversations. Memetic desire seems productive as a way of tweaking Girard’s overly theological framework.
September 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I know… but as you know funny words can often lead to interesting new conversations. Memetic desire seems productive as a way of tweaking Girard’s overly theological framework.
By “libido” here do you mean just desire or something more specific and distinct from desire? Why not Girard’s “mimetic desire”?
September 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
By “libido” here do you mean just desire or something more specific and distinct from desire? Why not Girard’s “mimetic desire”?
Ah okay I get what you mean now. This is an interesting concept, a kind of self-generating distributed libido. Beatlemania? Kpop?
September 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Ah okay I get what you mean now. This is an interesting concept, a kind of self-generating distributed libido. Beatlemania? Kpop?
I saw a bit of this show while I was back in the UK for a few months this past summer. It was as close to unwatchable as anything I've ever seen on TV.
September 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I saw a bit of this show while I was back in the UK for a few months this past summer. It was as close to unwatchable as anything I've ever seen on TV.
How did you know this is flat-out my favorite RW track?
August 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
How did you know this is flat-out my favorite RW track?
Oh the Halloween marketing ;)
August 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Oh the Halloween marketing ;)
We should reclaim some conversation of our own ;)
August 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
We should reclaim some conversation of our own ;)
Ah okay - been out of the country all summer so only following at a distance
August 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Ah okay - been out of the country all summer so only following at a distance
sucking your thumb?
August 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
sucking your thumb?
At least someone got away with shooting this video...
August 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
At least someone got away with shooting this video...
I know what you mean, but I think he senses a "cometh the hour, cometh the man" moment and has decided to step up to the plate.
August 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I know what you mean, but I think he senses a "cometh the hour, cometh the man" moment and has decided to step up to the plate.
We’re all shouting into a hurricane at this point
August 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
We’re all shouting into a hurricane at this point