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This is the transcript of a talk given by Palais Sinclaire at the Mille Plateaux “non-ference” 2025, in Graz. This talk was accompanied by a music performance from Lain Iwakura I want to talk today about several things, to try and offer a way for people to “catch up” with the literature and theoretical side…
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Affects & Dreams E03: Mille Plateaux Special “Derivative Quantumfield Communism” performed by A!kira
Affects & Dreams presents a Mille Plateaux Special to coincide with our involvement in Mille Plateaux’s “Ultrablack Nonference” happening in Graz, Austria this weekend. We will be there with some film screenings, some books, some performances and more:forumstadtpark.at/de/aktuelles/mil…black-nonference listen herehttps://soundcloud.com/crossdressingdiogenes/affects-dreams-episode-3-mille-plateaux-special-derivative-quantumfield-communism-by-akira?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=8CF24D082B4B4AC88764AB3A5B3B3469&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing A similar position can be found in Karl-Heinz Brodbeck, who points out that the models…
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The following is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of the book Affects & Dreams: a manual for Becoming by niko mas (published by becoming.press). The book is available directly from the publisher. About: Affects & Dreams, the first book authored by nikomas, is a relatively quick dive into the waters of Becoming; a schizo-guide to…
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Negative Being The Body-without-Organs (BwO) is like the Tao, in that it just about always escapes definition, always evading the words. In simple terms, it is like a sheet of white paper. In more complex terms it is like “union” without any sense of the Transcendental. There is no surpassing of experience and no escaping…
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Class, for the longest time, has been conceived as inseparable from the idea of civilisation, that somehow society always gravitates towards a social stratification process that privileges some members of society over others. In many cases, as a civilisation emerges, this stratification process has operated around family names, positions held in previous formulations of civility,…
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The word minimalism, at some point, became lost. As many editorials have expressed, “minimal” became a dirty word from its attachment to a trend that occurred in the mid 2000s, particularly in Berlin, where a ‘new minimalist’ movement emerges from the underground, only to become a trigger for one of the most controversial topics in…
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Part I: Non-Music, (N)Ontology, and Distinguishing Bubbles. It is important to remember from the offset that ‘non’ is not identical to ‘anti’ or ‘counter’, for example, ‘non-philosophy’ is not an ‘anti-philosophy’ in the sense of Badiou, although his work on Metapolitics (2012) is cited as influential in the formulation of non-philosophy (Laruelle, 2013: ix) [Anti-Badiou],…