schreiber’s blockade – writingblock

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“(…) neurohypophyseal peptides oxytocin and vasopressin in the central mediation of complex social behaviours, including affiliation, parental care and territorial aggression. Research on a monogamous rodent, the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) suggests that these neuropeptides also involved in the control of several behaviours associated with monogamy, including pair bonding, [more]

as i/armen is/am teaching all day, today we/the students have to write his entry: johanna: Armen isst nicht. Dennis: Can god change the last week? Veljko: jedva cekam da sunce sine Cornelia: I`m able to think the death in the sun. Maja: Trotzdem scheint die Sonne. Martina: You [more]

“let us work; work has the advantage, among others, of shortening our days and lengthening our lives”. definetely my days are too short. but let’s hope he’s right about the rest too. actually diderot was seventy when he died. not too bad for his time i guess.

Where is your entry for today? I am waiting! Desperately!! I was checking 60pages already several times today and even got tempted to write about you. But then I don’t know you at all. Also people might compare my blogs to yours (and that would be a huge [more]

as some of you readers of 60pages were surely wondering: is he a professor or is he just damned smart? well my answer is: yes and no. or no and yes. or partly yes but otherwise not. or sometimes. both. basically i just received my contract by post [more]

  i can only recommend visiting lithuania. apart from having wifi in their taxis here (what else do you want after arriving in a foreign country?), there is also an such an amount of really interesting shows, performances, screenings, talks, that i sometimes thought i am still in berlin…especially the talks [more]

on my way to vilnius to talk about this in the series “New Realism in Contemporary Art”: Adopting a semiotic model, one could differentiate between three regimes of realism. Firstly a realism of the signified (predominant in 19th century literature and art), trying to depict reality, understand it [more]

out in october

according to reliable sources, people high up in the 60pages hierarchy have been overheard saying that ‘das leben ist ein ponyhof’ (thereby deliberately showing off their good mood in close proximity to a very stressed writer claiming the opposite). these rumors have been adamantly denied. the CEO of [more]

28degrees. 28degrees was yesterday’s temperature in new york. 28. this morning, making a cup of tea and changing the order of things in my cupboard (most glasses now behind the tea cups and mugs) the message finally arrived (while yesterday i just made some jokes how obscene and [more]

i love 60pages. it should be 120pages or 180pages. so many new people, ideas and styles (of writing) to read every day. and more and more things grow together while the horizon broadens. also since last week i have my favorite authors on 60pages and now after reading [more]

What if, one day, there are no more humans? Doesn’t this scenario become more likely with every day that passes? But how would we think something like the irrevocable end of thinking? What access do we have to our own non-being? How do we know that our distinction [more]

          so speculation has now conquered the german museum               nina told me that of course i can blog pictures, but should try to take good ones. which was of course enough to scare me off. so instead [more]

i will leave the house. i will travel. i will go to kassel. i will see a show and meet many people. i will take pictures. actually i will take so many pictures so that i’ll have enough for 60pages (i mean for ’60 pages’)

i’m an academic. no one is supposed to be eager to read my texts. and then THIS: dear people out there, i am asking you: do you really want to read my posts? i mean ok, obviously my mid-atlantic english is much better than bobby’s. but there is [more]

all i can say is: there is worse, trust me on that. or at least: there is always something far more absurd to come. actually quite soon. to be precise: already next sunday. where? in austria of course. i am convinced having the austrian elections one week from [more]

Contemporary capitalism is an object of high abstraction. The symposium is an invitation to discuss and disclose the anonymous and inner tendencies of capitalism, to study its monetary, algorithmic and energetic viscera. How can one grasp the living drives of financial markets and technological innovation? And more importantly: [more]

we have to think about accelerating. quickly. the future is already here. and the past is unforeseeable. we’re living in anastrophic times.

(…) As Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello have shown, aesthetic critique will at the same time ultimately be used (by the neoliberal discourse of crisis) purely for the provision of catchwords for an ever new and seemingly faster “liberalization,” which is called upon from the other side as [more]

  Criticism – Crisis – Acceleration Armen Avanessian Monetarization indexes a becoming-abstract of matter, parallel to the plasticization of productive force, with prices encoding distributed SF narratives. Tomorrow is already on sale, with post-modernity a soft-commodity, subverting the modernist subordination into continuous crisis (prolonged critically). —Nick Land No one [more]

bernd is by far the most amazing editor i know. i’ve known him for some years now and he’s so far saved quite a number of my books from being totally incomprehensible. when i first met him he announced that at some point he always knows a book [more]

METANOIA INTRODUCTION………………………………………………….. 3 I POETICS Principles of lingual poiesis……………………. 11 The poetic function of language (Jakobson)…………….. 11 The potentializing function of language (Guillaume)….. 13 Poietic linguistics………………………………………………….. 20 The myth of the arbitrariness of the sign………………….. 24 Experimental Poetics…………………………………………….. 27 II ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE The lingual creation of [more]

  forgot to ask ann and monika yesterday. but discussing metanoia with them i had some new thoughts which anke and me can still include before we hand the manuscript in). i read some parts of the intro: “I now see things in a new light.” We have all at some point [more]

off to düsseldorf for an event with ann and monika. gotta ask them about how they imagine ein gutes Buch blockiert also den Literaturbetrieb. reminds me of my fetishistic idea of seizing philosophy via literary theory. or writing something that might affect others in the way two or [more]

so many texts about to be written with friends. for example the manifesto with stefan on how we need to think (and write, and do art, and politics) in times of big data. stefan thinks wir sind alle freunde. we’re all friends because even our enemies are friends [more]