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The Lacanian Left: Psychoanalysis, Theory, and Politics
"Derrida's name is most closely associated with the often cited but rarely understood term "deconstruction." When responsibly understood, the implications of deconstruction are quite different from the misleading clichés often used to describe a process of dismantling or taking things apart." The real meaning of deconstruction. M.Taylor, 2004 Deconstruction departs from a refusal of authority; a negative response to any authority or determining power of identity. Deconstruction is not a method or a practice that can be applied to deconstruct an idea or an artifact. If something is deconstructible, it is already deconstructible; always already deconstructible. Deconstruction consists of anything would be to say it consists of deconstruction, dislocating, displacing, disarticulating, disjoining, putting “out of joint” the authority of the “is”. The same applies for deconstruction “itself”. Deconstruction is not reducible to an essential feature, task or style. Like any word, idea or meaning, deconstruction “acquires its value from its [...]
These are some of the films of this year's October’s First Friday Shorts contest shown at the Tucson Loft Cinema. I will be adding more as they [might] appear on the web. Batman’s in the Kitchen, by Philip Lybrand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLO4sGNQzVQ Civilization!, by John Baldridge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wiRhVzsXFM The Option, by Rich SanNicholas Alice, by Mike Sterner Johnny Arizona, by Reese Stover Portrait of Brian Hanshaw, by John Mandish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAuNnMqnDew Yearbook, by Josh Murray The Equation of Life, by Josheph Turetti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbhYWCh1LBU Coney & Tot, by Tom Smith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV9OhcmEXds
3-6 September, 2008 University College Falmouth Cornwall UK Networks of Design "responds to recent academic interest in the fields of design history, technology and the social sciences in the ‘networks’ of interactions that inform knowledge formation and design. Studying networks foregrounds infrastructure, negotiations, processes, strategies of interconnection, and the heterogeneous relationships between people and things." Thematic Strands Networks of Texts: including images, documents & databases Networks of Ideas: including theories, disciplines & concepts (among them ANT) Networks of Technology: including mechanical & virtual technologies Networks of Things: including material & technological artefacts Networks of People: including collectives & individuals The themes will be composed of a number of sub-strands that may include panels on particular aspects of networks of sustainability, the media, gender, consumerism, 'race,' globalisation, communication, leisure, tourism, the exotic, actor network theory, theory and practice, metaphor, memory, cross-cultural networks, inter-disciplinary networks (art, craft, architecture, design, science), professional networks, [...]