Archive for the “papers” category
What’s in the Box?
by jebni on July 11, 2005
Modulating vocabularies of trauma and mundanity in refugee blogs Ben Hoh, University of Technology, Sydney Delivered at the BlogTalk Downunder conference, Sydney 2005 Abstract: What happens when stories of suffering collide with details of the mundane in blogs? Reading the (…)
An Engagement With the Real
by jebni on October 11, 2002
a dialogue between Ben and Claire (2002) We were encamped in an isolated location, like a bunch of contestants in a reality TV show, and in some way those parameters forced us to make contact with our material context. For (…)
Remembering Woomera
by jebni on October 11, 2002
Extracts from a diary 09-NOV-2002 03:58 I was going to get into why I’m thinking these strange thoughts, but it got too hard. Instead, here’s something I wrote (on a mailing list) immediately after the Woomera 2002 desert protest against (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
The Escape From Reaction
by jebni on October 11, 1995
A political fantasy of radical action around the university Ben Hoh, Left Alliance Internal Discussion (June 1995) 1) Running through the foundations of the campaign against fees is a problematic orientation towards “consumer rights”. This isn’t often fully articulated, but (…)
Extremely Important: an interview with Brian Massumi
by jebni on October 11, 1993
A conversation with Brian Massumi about qualities of radicalism This is an interview I did in 1993 with Brian Massumi — radical academic, translator of Deleuze and Guattari, editor of Hardt and Negri, etc. This was the first time I’d (…)