The Transubstantial Unconscious

by jebni on October 11, 1996

The Holy Shroud, faciality and the scene of configuration Benjamin Hoh, 1996 It doesn’t have a nose, eyes and a mouth. It’s something else… – Frank Black, on surf music < < < I first read Ian Wilson’s The Turin (…)

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Humanoid Perception

by jebni on October 11, 1996

Politics at the arrival of the figure Benjamin Hoh, 1996 This essay was prompted by the differences that one can find in radical approaches to the politics of “form”. Take the Baroque. In Against Literature (1993), Marxist literary critic John (…)

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An Invitation to the State of Emergency

by jebni on October 11, 1996

Reclaiming Historical Materialism and Revolutionary Aesthetic Programmes Benjamin Hoh, 1996 The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of (…)

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Invocations of the Concrete

by jebni on October 11, 1996

History, strategy and the re-presentation of AIDS activist graphics Benjamin Hoh, 1996 < < < On the general level on which U.S. academics and students take “influence” from France, one encounters the following understanding: Foucault deals with real history, real (…)

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