Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ In which, by even merely mentioning such embarrassingly dire, grifting hacks such as ‘Quentin Meillassoux’ – not that anyone’s even called that in reality – you feel you’ve already given them too much intellectual credit. Is his work really the best that philosophy in France (not ‘French philosophy’) has to offer today? Reading the … Read more
RND/ To consider loose notes towards a satirical examination of Ray ‘Batshit Jumblewords’ Brassier, whose work and approach appears so stubbornly byzantine in its hopelessly tortured, hyper-obscurantist display of unimportant cleverness, it might as well arrive from an inherently insane synthetic intelligence that cannot help spew out impossibly complex pseudo-philosophical bullshit. There’s very little joy … Read more
RND// To consider Slavoj Žižek’s Sex And The Failed Absolute (Bloomsbury Academic 2020) near the top of anyone’s shortlist for the biggest stinking load of old academic charlatan obscurantist bollocks ever pinched off by a major publisher. While not entirely without merit – there are at least a couple of easily understandable, well thought out … Read more
RND/ To consider a forthcoming educational expose of student life at a miserable fart-hole of a dire Northern English™ University, while undertaking a dreadful course: A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning – Benjamin Disraeli Don’t believe the hype – Public Enemy Can you escape ‘The Boredom Factory’? — … Read more
RND/ To consider possible examples of J.G Ballard themed conceptual digital art and critique: Ballardian Carparks There are an enormous number of multi story car parks in Watford. They played a special role in The Atrocity Exhibition. They were iconic structures. I was interested in gauges of psycho-architectonics. Multi story car parks and their canted … Read more