The Only Ones by Carola Dibbell Two Dollar Radio, May 2015 344 pages – TDR / Amazon Great stories arise out of the virtual mass of incoherency, some tendency or some…
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The Agony of Valorization
by Alex Lee January 19, 2015On the New by Boris Groys Translated by G. M. Goshgarian Verso, July 2014 208 pages – Verso / Amazon In Boris Groys’s book, On the New, Groys argues against…
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Formalized Epistemes: Foucault’s Incomplete Order of History
by Alex Lee January 9, 2015The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michael Foucault Random House, 1970 416 pages – Amazon To answer why do things make sense, in The Order of…
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by Alex Lee December 31, 2014The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Mariner Books, Originally published in 1976 512 pages – Amazon Jaynes isn’t a philosopher. He did…
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Deleuze’s Eternal Problem: Difference and Repetition
by Alex Lee December 19, 2014Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze Originally published in 1968 Translated by Paul Patton – Columbia University Press, 1994 Amazon This is my second time reading this book. I think the first…
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[[there.]]
by Alex Lee December 10, 2014[[there.]] by Lance Olsen Anti-Oedipus Press, January 2014 Anti-Oedpius / Amazon Written at the time he was in Germany, and perhaps inspired by the novels of David Markson, Olsen takes the…
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Pynchon’s Demon: Entropy in The Crying of Lot 49
by Alex Lee December 3, 2014The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Harper Perennial, originally published in 1966 192 pages – Amazon Perusing the reviews of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 is pretty much like…
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The Haunted Vagina
by Alex Lee November 6, 2014The Haunted Vagina by Carlton Mellick III Eraserhead Press, 2006 Amazon At the heart of this compelling tale (with its title and its cover image) is a fetish of the other—in…
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Simulacra and Simulation
by Alex Lee October 28, 2014Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser University of Michigan Press, 1994 Originally Published in French in 1981 UofM Press / Amazon This is not an easy book…
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Pure Presence in Žižek’s Less Than Nothing
by Alex Lee October 20, 2014Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Žižek Verso Books, May 2012 Verso / Amazon What is “less than nothing” is what is lost in order to…
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Deframing News: David Weldzius, Stephen Cohen Gallery: “News from Nowhere”
by Alex Lee October 1, 2014“Case Study House No. 22, master bedroom.” Image courtesy of Cohen Gallery and David Weldzius. “Architecture is not simply a platform that accommodates the viewing subject. It is a…
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Venn Diagrams
by Alex Lee June 13, 2014The modernist project extends itself from Descartes’ aesthetic, to build from Truths, necessary and universal. But what is a universal? Being themselves, universals must necessarily also be a priori. For…