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<nettime> Review of Trans Desire by Zach Blas in E-Misférica |
I am so honored to say that Zach Blas has reviewed my book, and his review is now available on the E-Misférica website. E-Misférica is the journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and their latest issue, 7.2, is on the theme "After Truth". >From the review: In Nietzsche and Philosophy, Gilles Deleuze describes the world as Nietzsche posits it, as “neither true nor real but living” (1962, 184). In this world of the living, life gains value—not truth—by being evaluated and interpreted. These actions suggest we frame the living in a particular way to return certain values and sensations. Framing, in this sense, is an act of creation that is political: to frame is to create new values, generate new experiments, and produce new possibilities. Micha Cárdenas’ Trans Desire frames desire as the basis for a radical collective politics that is queer, feminist, and anti-capitalist. Building from a Lacanian notion of desire, Cárdenas reveals desire itself to be ontologically trans, that is, desire as in-between, liminal, becoming, and in process. Framing desire as trans allows Cárdenas to formulate a desire which contests standards, rigidities, and binaries of all kinds. This desire is a transcendental empiricism, always extending beyond the known to materially make the world and us anew. In Trans Desire, Cárdenas offers us nothing less than a practical theory of desire that creates livable, affirmative worlds that resist the violence of capitalism and heteronormativity. Read the rest in E-Misférica: http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/en/e-misferica-72/blas -- micha cárdenas Interim Associate Director of Art and Technology Culture, Art and Technology Program, Sixth College, UCSD Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press, http://is.gd/daO00 Artist/Researcher, UCSD School of Medicine Artist/Theorist, bang.lab, http://bang.calit2.net blog: http://transreal.org gpg: http://is.gd/ebWx9 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org