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AxisofLacan: Twitter as aesthetic-technical discipline

By Jonathan Waring on October 22, 2010

An exploration of the technical form of Twitter as an aesthetic discipline, containing the example of a tweeted explanation of the Lacanian notion of the Real, Symbolic and Imaginary, as they relate to Mark Fisher’s notion of Capitalist Realism.

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Posted in Art, Blogging, Twitter | Tagged Aesthetics, Art, Blog, Capitalist Realism, Discipline, Lacan, Technical Forms, Twitter | 2 Responses

GHAOS Sticker Action, Toronto, Canada

Total GHAOS: 5th Anniversary

By Jonathan Waring on October 7, 2010

A microcosmic society built from scratch, Total GHAOS was a multi-storey scaffolding utopia that realised the collective ideals of GHAOS and the ‘Reactor Party’.

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Summing Up: Žižek and Environmentalism (Part 1)

By Jonathan Waring on October 3, 2010

Žižek; environmentalism; ideology; conceptions of left and right; class struggle

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Posted in Environment, Essay, Philosophy, Politics, Video | Tagged Environment, Slavoj Žižek, Sustainability, Video | Leave a response

Response to ‘Slavoj Žižek and the Recycling Superstition’

By Jonathan Waring on August 12, 2010

In this response to my previous post (Slavoj Žižek and the Recycling Superstition) I address the ‘the Rs of sustainability’; continue my examination of Žižek’s notion of superstition and his invocation of the ‘paradox of the performative’; and link to a backlight.vpro.nl video in which Žižek is interrogated by giant video screens.

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Posted in Blogging, Environment, Philosophy, Politics, Video | Tagged Capitalism, Environment, London School of Economics, LSE, Slavoj Žižek, Sustainability, Video | 3 Responses

Slavoj Žižek and the Recycling Superstition

By Jonathan Waring on July 16, 2010

Two weeks ago (Thursday, July 1st 2010) I attended Slavoj Žižek’s lecture at the LSE, marking the release of his new book: Living in the End Times. In this post I will address Žižek’s provocative claim that efforts at personal recycling—‘small everyday acts’—equate simply to a superstition. This was by no means the focus of his lecture—it was little more that a passing comment—but, whether he has any valid grounds for making such a statement or not, a careful examination of this contention is an interesting departure point.

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Posted in Environment, Essay, Politics | Tagged Capitalism, Environment, Lecture, London School of Economics, LSE, Podcast, Recycling, RSA, Slavoj Žižek | 5 Responses

All Quiet on the Western Front

By Jonathan Waring on April 25, 2010

In this post I discuss the recent lack of activity at jonathanwaring.net, and then comment on some possible titles for future examinations, including: ‘Scientology and the ARC Triangle: The Value of Systematising’; ‘Anarchism and Libertarianism’ and ‘What if Hitler was Right: On the Importance of Interrogating Wrong Ideas’.

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L. Ron Hubbard in Drag: Ayn Rand on the Internet

By Jonathan Waring on March 15, 2010

Best restroom graffiti I ever saw in college was, “Ayn Rand is L. Ron Hubbard in Drag.” The above is a quote from a comments post, spotted while searching for connections between our two current protagonists in the collective Internet culture. There are a couple of other variants dating from 2005 onwards—try searching for the, […]

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Posted in Online Research | Tagged Ayn Rand, Illuminatus! Trilogy, Internet Research, L. Ron Hubbard, Online Polls, Philosophy, Uncyclopedia | Leave a response

Ayn Rand c.1957

Current research: Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard

By Jonathan Waring on February 10, 2010

I am in the process of researching the conceptual systems and philosophies of ‘dubious’ thinkers—particularly those who have been successful in spreading their ideas into popular culture. Currently my research is focused on, and is interested in contrasting, the ideas and writings of Ayn Rand (founder of the ‘philosophy’ of Objectivism, through which she claimed […]

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BPC (2009)

What this website is not:

By Jonathan Waring on January 27, 2010

This website is not—and is not intended to become—a ‘menu’ of artworks for easy consumption.

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Getting the look of this blog right is going to prove a challenge

By Jonathan Waring on January 26, 2010

I’ve now tried out a variety of WordPress themes and I’m not really happy with any of them. All those I’ve installed have had at least one attribute in their favour, but then they’ve all then had more things going against them. I don’t really want to get bogged down editing themes (or getting into […]

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