Continental Aesthetics on a.aaaarg.org

A PDF version of The Continental Aesthetics Reader is now part of the library at a.aaaarg.org. So if you happen to drop your life-world copy in the bathtub you can now download it and print it off chapter by chapter.

http://a.aaaarg.org/text/4634/continental-aesthetics-reader

About AAAARG:

AAAARG is a conversation platform - at different times it performs as a school, or a reading group, or a journal.

AAAARG was created with the intention of developing critical discourse outside of an institutional framework. But rather than thinking of it like a new building, imagine scaffolding that attaches onto existing buildings and creates new architectures between them.

Exciting.

Heya,

The Marx podcast I was mentioning is called "Reading Marx's Capital" and can be downloaded for free from iTunes, more info about David Harvey and the course here: http://davidharvey.org/

And, turns out it's "only" 15 episodes (not 24 as I had originally thought!)

Nicole

fractal ontology?

just found an interesting blog called "fractal ontology" with a short article on kant --

http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/soul/

+ a review of kenneth rogerson's book, the problem of free harmony in kant's aesthetics -- which was interesting re: our last discussion.

http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=16085

starting afresh with continental aesthetics

just making sure this still works, and potentially starting a new strand that moves away from difference & repetition alone, to continental aesthetics. last thursday's discussion on kant was awesome! ( i changed the image at the top of the blog to an agnes martin drawing because for some reason i kept going back to her work in my mind during our conversation. )

Coles Notes

Here's the "Coles notes to D&R" site that Kat found. More than worth a look -- Kristina

http://www.protevi.com/john/DG/

tree of porphyry

(tree of porphyry apparently drawn by peter of spain, 1329)

kristina's epiphany for today made some things a lot clearer...

the porphyrian tree (created by Porphyry, a phoenician neoplatonic)

is a hierarchical ontology...says wikipedia: a construction in logic

consisting of three rows or columns of words; the middlemost whereof contains the series of genus and species, and bears some analogy to the trunk. the extremes, containing the differences, are analogous to the branches of a tree.

from reading parts of 1000 plateaus, i understand that this tree model is what deleuze & guattari are opposed to -- proposing the nonhierarchical rhizomatic model as an alternative.

but this model helps to explain the introductory chapter of difference & repetition, especially the section of the chapter that starts on the bottom of pg. 11. not feeling clear enough to write about it, but some points (which maybe someone else can elaborate on): the words in the model represent concepts, and the space between each horizontal subset represents differences. this is the model in which every concept has a thing -- "a concept may be in principle the concept of a particular existing thing, thus having an infinite comprehension. infinite comprehension is the correlate of an extension = 1". (apparently, while there is a slight distinction between "comprehension" and "intension," which deleuze sometimes recognizes, the two terms are generally interchangable). this is is this system where there can't be any repetition of the sort deleuze is discussing, where difference is only conceptual difference and the 3 natural blockages come from the outside to intervene.

radical philosophy

the link to radical philosophy journal could be helpful, www.radicalphilosophy.com, though it would take digging around -- some full articles are listed (many of which utilize deleuze) or else abstracts.