The Diagonal

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  • Jazzy Ted Adorno on Art and Capital

    All right. I’ve read some of those ‘controversial’ writings by Teddy on ‘jazz’ now, and I think perhaps what we’ve had here is a simple misunderstanding… If you recall the era and the context in which the old boy was writing, you see at once that what Teddy is on about is the mid-20th century…

  • Zizek Welcome Here

    A lot of fellow lefties seem to loathe Zizek. But I suspect many in whom he arouses antipathy are simply taking him the wrong way – as someone asserting propositions that he intends for his readers and listeners to come to hold as definitively true.  Whether that’s what Z actually intends (I doubt it) or…

  • Bill Told the Kid to Fuck Off

        There are dogs that will cling to you closely and follow you room to room. And there are dogs that aren’t like that at all – dogs that trot straight to a quiet corner where they can keep watch as they leave you to your own proceedings. Many of us seem to be…

  • Rhizome Eats Interzone

    The Colorectal Ouroboros A new narcissist pseudo-‘left,’ even more than the longstanding faux-‘right,’ has emerged far too indigestible and indeed literally ‘self-absorbed,’ too incoherent both jointly and severally (no ‘we,’ no ‘I’), too ineffectual and too imbecilic, too terminally transmuted by current ‘culture industries’ into a new form of self-sucking onanist vampire-capital …  ‘digital creators’…

  • Welcome to The Diagonal

    Welcome to the Diagonal. The object here is regularly to diagonalize – to make a practice of diagonalizing, a la Cantor – out of stale patterns of thought and action in hopes of bringing productive change to both – both considered as one continuous human whole. (Much as Nietzsche referred to the soul as ‘something…