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Oppressive mobilities in Ender’s Game (1985 & 2013)

I lacked any sense of 80’s sci fi story Ender’s Game until 2013 when the film adaptation came along.  I had a quick look into it then, noted some controversy as a story and from comments of a homophobic nature by the author Orson Scott Card.  It was notable also that the book has been […]

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quick by the state/warmachine space

Here’s a fascinating 2013 piece by Andrew Robinson (theorist and activist) about Deleuze & Guattari’s work on the state and the relation with different forms of ‘war-machine’ (a problematised term he does well to unentangle) as well as the correlatives of social dynamics of relation and production (the dimension of the social field). Its written […]

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arborescent forms towards the rhizome

  Here is an interesting video about root networks of trees, fungally empowered that allow for a transferrence of material between the network. The arborescent is contrasted in Deleuze and Guattari with the rhizomatic. “… It is odd how the tree has dominated Western reality and all of Western thought… Thought is not arborescent, and […]

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Revicide-tronics

I recall hearing an interview with Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals once who commented that one of the most difficult gigs he’d ever been a part of with the group was when they had had to follow the band Suicide on stage to play live (I had no idea who they were at […]