I’m known as the discourse guy and the theory guy. There’s always this, oh, I bet he’s gonna talk about language and how language does this and that. That’s fair enough. It’s not that I’m only about language, but what I talk and write about is often concerned with language. This is also clear from […]
When I write research plans, I’m often struck by the criteria. Somehow I’m supposed to know in advance what is important to research and, more specifically what is important to research about something. In other words, I’m puzzled by how it is that the researcher knows this in advance, without having done the research. For […]
I think I was looking for something that had to do with how Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari differentiate neurosis and psychosis in their book ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’. I ended up landing on this article, ‘Living the intensive order: Common sense and schizophrenia in Deleuze and Guattari’, written by Julie Van der […]
There’s this short book, like under 80 pages written by French philosopher François Jullien. It carries a provocative title, ‘There is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity’, but it is arguably more timely than it is provocative. It is such a short book that it makes little sense to go through it. You can read […]
I ended up writing this essay following a series of encounters earlier this year. It was a particularly rainy day in the spring, which prompted me to stay longer at the university. I hadn’t prepared for that. Finally it stopped raining and I could head home. After stopping to do some groceries, I was at […]
Ever since I read Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’ and watched Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’, I’ve thought of writing an article on that addressed faciality on social media, which is what Burnham does, in his own way, during the segment on ‘A White Woman’s Instagram’. Then came the summer of […]
I already wrote about this, but I went through only one of the articles related to the topic, which is that what do children have to do with landscapes? I pointed out that they don’t have much to do with it, really, considering that no one sees the world as a landscape when they are […]
How should we live? Or how might we live? Friedrich Nietzsche accepts the latter formulation and rejects the former formulation, as discussed by him in ‘The Four Great Errors’, which can be found in ‘The Twilight of Idols’. To make sense of this, he lists and goes through these four grave errors. The first error […]
What do children have to do with landscapes? Well, not much really, considering that no one sees the world as a landscape when they are born. It’s the adults who teach them to see the world that way. This is actually a topic that really hasn’t been investigated by landscape researchers. I could be wrong, […]
I enjoy selecting something and then writing something about it, as I read it. I particularly like Félix Guattari’s essays, because it’s like you just have something, about something, and that’s it. Okay, I can kind of guess what he might have written, without even looking at the titles, there’s that, fair enough, but the […]