To this end, the point of investigating the various semiotics distributed by the abstract machine is, according to Deleuze, to discover, for every regime of signs, the value of its lines of flight. The point of this? Here, I choose to give Deleuze the last word. The point of discovering...
Summer is a season of blooming, radiance, abundance, fruitfulness, wonder, joy, and playfulness. Given the heat, it is also a season for leisure, rest, and idleness. Author Sam Keen is quoted as saying, “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” Don’t you love that? Below, ...
After summarizing “Another Man’s Wife and the Husband under the Bed,” Mikhailovsky concludes, “I have on purpose recounted all this triviality in order for the reader to better appreciate all the superfluity of this abundance of misfortunes of Ivan Andreevich. . . . Isn’t this a ...
I read somewhere that this is to be the Year of Clarity. Usually the events of my life provide my own naming of the year — sometimes as prelude, sometimes as epilogue. But whomever floated this one out there for us — having a year of clarity for our nation, as well as for many o...