Rooftop apocalypse

  Late summer, 2010. Perhaps in Forres, Scotland. Prints via http://mbrakken.deviantart.com or contact me for 12×12 on Kodak Endura metallic.

On opening the notes

I’ve been meaning to use this blog for my open notebook for my dissertation and beyond. It’s not intended to just be focused on research notes and musings, but that’s part of it. The big… Read More →

Corkbook, pt 9

inefficiency, welfare, potential, a life (Deleuze, immanence) denial of economization, the most efficient path inefficiency to generate everything we don’t expect to happen, joy of surprise, everything that might become but isn’t

Corkbook pt 8

The Shape of Alter Economics Manifestations of Currency Relations relations of local & global (globalization/localization) movement & form (particular manifestations & variation through transmission) Transversality stability/instability multitude mechanics & mechanisms behavior & action… Read More →

Corkbook pt 7

Commons as plane of immanence   Various collapsed configurations in uneasy relation/resonance with each other, effort towards greater degrees of conjunction   Commons as claim   Precarity —> intensification of singularity/singular   precarity… Read More →

Corkbook pt 6: some random, wanky, unpolished, and incomplete prose

The world we imagine is broken. It will always be broken. That is the nature of the world and thoughts of it. We form compositions in an effort to explain phenomena within the… Read More →

Corkbook pt 5

Differences accentuate Tied together through currency weapons, numbers, precision Politics of organization/energization   How to form aggregate/conglomerate political entities that don’e deny individuality?   Channelization of exchange Adherence to unities   Difference Differentiation… Read More →

Corkbook pt 4

Globalization –> strong efficient flow, enforce inefficiencies elsewhere, efficient exchanges create dependencies, centers able to effect more influence due to signal-generation, others too dispersed within sphere of activity/influence Sarte & the group? Guattari… Read More →

Corkbook pt 3

[fall 2011] Contribution to a body of literature Lay disciplinary foundation Enfoldment & Infinity Merleau-Ponty Butler’s use of Zizek on disidentification Guattari’s Transversalities Assemblages

Corkbook pt 2

[fall 2011] Theoretical contribition <— leverage for funding Literature streams currency theoretics development/modernization localization Lay of land chapter —> plug into activist work Guitarri & Transversality Swyngedouw on Sub-Saharan Africa Jamie Peck How… Read More →

Corkbook pt 1: Early question concepts, etc.

Contextualization of community practice Networked learning Topological economics Tools for mapping resources Identification of what constitutes resource Identification of locality / meaning of which   How do we create/crowdsource (a) generalized model(s) of… Read More →

The passage

Late summer, 2010. Perhaps in Stroud, UK. Prints via http://mbrakken.deviantart.com or contact me for 12×12 on Kodak Endura metallic.

Barricades

Somewhere in London, north of the Thames. Summer 2010. Prints via http://mbrakken.deviantart.com/art/Barricade-260489214, or  for 12×12 on metallic contact me.

WTF was Zizek (and Verso) thinking?: Part [too many to keep track]

I haven’t read that much of Zizek, the so-called most dangerous philosopher in the West, but what I have read doesn’t seem to live up to the hype. That said, I feel like… Read More →

Call a spade a spade: on exploitation, coercion, and violence

Some of the work I do deals with community or complementary currencies. These days many people are offering different currency models in an effort to address failures* in the currencies, like the dollar,… Read More →