Monthly Archives: November 2015

Take My Heart, My Soul, My Money

Posted on November 10, 2015 by zjb

“Don’t pull your love out on me, honey. Take my heart, my soul, my money. But don’t leave me drownin’ in my tears.”  –Deuteronomy 6:5

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Un-Affected Studies

Posted on November 10, 2015 by zjb
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Big Cloud Formations (Central New York)

Posted on November 10, 2015 by zjb

Especially dramatic, these big cloud formations out in the near-distance and over the highway last week on the way home, south of Syracuse on rt. 81.

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Spectre: Humanity as the Ghost in the Global Machine

Posted on November 8, 2015 by zjb

The human figure is the ghost in the digital machine –Gail Hamner on the new James Bond, Spectre.

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Tablet Magazine Mainstreams Jewish Fascism

Posted on November 7, 2015 by zjb

Showing its ideological colors, here’s Tablet Magazine mainstreaming Jewish fascism in Israel for the American Jewish cultural market. The “conversation” with “firebrand” Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked is a soft one. The Minister easily bats back  critical questions that are only … Continue reading →

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Through the Window Foliage

Posted on November 7, 2015 by zjb

A little bit wild, but not really, my place in Syracuse is on a hill and up in the trees. This looks something like what I woke up to last Wednesday or Thursday morning. Most of the foliage I look … Continue reading →

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Digital Zionism — Visual & Virtual Solidarity 

Posted on November 6, 2015 by zjb

This little bit, some of it swiped from the blog, on Israel in the American Jewish gaze got published in Eretz Aheret, a publication put out by the Foreign Ministry of Israel. The piece presents a quick historical sketch about … Continue reading →

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Delaware Gap (Mists)

Posted on November 5, 2015 by zjb

Very early last Tuesday morning on 80 W. on the way to Syracuse. Out in the distance, Delaware Gap looked like a Chinese landscape. I tried to get both sides of the gap into the frame but the shot didn’t come … Continue reading →

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Immortality & The Transmission of Affect (Teresa Brennan)

Posted on November 5, 2015 by zjb

My first introduction to the idea of Affect Theory was the scenario modeled by Teresa Brennan The Transmission of Affect. A person walks into a room and “feels” the atmosphere charged this way or that. The feeling or affect is … Continue reading →

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Not Radical (Affect Theory or the Material Logic of Late Capitalism)

Posted on November 4, 2015 by zjb

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Cynical perhaps, this piece by Jedediah Purdy, which you can read here in the New Republic, is not so much a refutation of the major claims advanced in Affect Theory, Vital Materialism, … Continue reading →

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