A common way of looking historically at feminism is to regard it as a ?movement? which has rolled out in ?waves?: the first wave would be the 19th and early-20th century push for women?s emancipation and suffrage, the second would be the ?women?s lib? of the 60s and 70s, and the third would be the [...]
A couple of years ago the Guardian published an article of Jessica Valenti’s of memorably annoying vacuity – I distinctly recollect muttering “oh, for fuck’s sake” to myself whilst reading it, the way I used to with everything of Tanya Gold’s until she unexpectedly turned quite good. Here’s the opening paragraph:
Trust me on this one [...]
A lovely morning – I walked to the railway station through a grey, becalmed, snow-powdered Northampton, the roads quiet and few pedestrians on the pavements. Fine snow still coming down constantly, almost no wind. I was warm and sure-footed in my fleece and boots. Later in the train I started idly stringing together fragments of [...]
via Stuart Maconie’s often informative Freak Zone, this is what Clive Palmer did after getting back from his travels in India and deciding not to rejoin the Incredible String Band – Wade in the Water by C.O.B.(Clive’s Original Band):
Where do those harmonies come from? They’re instantly recognisable as belonging to the same lineage as ISB’s, [...]
But our minds are polarized by artificial debates in which we are enjoined to take sides: for or against surrogate motherhood, for or against the scarf, for or against prostitution. The question is not to know if a woman?s consent is real or not when she prostitutes herself. To question the subject behind the prostitute [...]
In Logics of Worlds, an “object” is the “objectivation” – the projection into some world – of a multiple-being (a “thing”). What’s interesting about this projection is that it conserves the multiple composition of the thing projected: there is a correspondence between the “elements” of the multiple and the “atoms” of the object, such that [...]
In his funeral oration for Jean Hyppolite (collected in Pocket Pantheon), Badiou recalls that during his entrance examination for the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Hypollite, who was his examiner, asked him what the difference was between a thing (chose) and an object (objet):
I improvised an answer. And I have to say that, having worked in recent [...]
Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was just my lark:
Me and my cloak and fangs
had ripping times in the dark.
The women I clubbed with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.
Philip Larkin, A Study of Reading Habits
I’m struck by the ways in which recent discussion of Cornel West seems to turn on who he’s supposed to be (particularly as an academic) and the evident incompatibility of his own-funky-trumpet-blowing persona with this imago. I rather admire what West seems to be doing here. It’s more humble than you might think to expose [...]
This is the website of Dominic Fox, a writer, musician and working programmer living in Northampton in the UK.
The contents of the site are as follows:
The CTM Wiki, a user-authored resource for readers of the book Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, by Peter van Roy and Seif Haridi.