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Saturday, August 17, 2013

How Not to do Dystopia in a Dystopia: A Brief remark on Elysium


In an instance of "first time as protest, second time as product" Elysium has been described as a movie of the 99%, a film that expresses the same sentiments as Occupy Wall Street. I think that this is accurate, but not in the way it is meant. What Elysium expresses is not some radical message in the trojan horse of a late summer blockbuster, even less some kind of Marxism, but the limits of the populist imaginary of the Occupy moment.

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Negative Solidarity: Towards the Definition of a Concept


Even though it is not a recent post, I was struck by this post on "negative solidarity" on the blog splintering bone ashes. To cite from the blog: 
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