ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: The Deleuze Sale at Target is Now On!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Deleuze Sale at Target is Now On!

Thanks to Peter Gratton, I was able to visit Target today, where I checked out the following fantastic new items, all designed by Gilles Deleuze:

Memory foam (he may have stolen the idea from Bergson's original bedding design)
The Thousand Plateaus memory foam mattress
The Rhizome Probehead, a vacuum cleaner with detachable nozzles
The Cozmic Nomad, a robot vacuum cleaner
Faciality, the new skin cream for men
Refrain! A great party game for all the family
Time Crystals. Just pop one in your toilet and let the magic begin
Spinoza, the all purpose gel: it's a cleaner, it's a pet's chew toy, it's a deity

There were so many products it was hard to keep track. Can you recall any?

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Christopher Schaberg said...: Personally, I'm dying to get the "Tensor" vibrating toothbrush, a steal for $9.99. (And don't forget that "Intensive" toothpaste to go along with it—makes one's teeth tingle!); October 29, 2010 at 7:57 AM

Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.

“Outstanding.”
—Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

“Dark ecology has the potential to be the punk rock or experimental pop of ecological thinking.”
—Kasino A4

“It isn’t [nature] itself that needs trashing — we’re doing a fine job of that already; it’s our way of thinking about it that needs to be structurally realigned ... it's an important book that, in a scant 205 pages of main text ... frames a debate that no doubt will be carried on for years to come.”
—Vince Carducci, Pop Matters

“He practices what he theorizes: nothing is wasted in his argumentation.”
—Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Synthesis

“Picking up where his most obvious predecessors, Gregory Bateson and Felix Guattari, left off, Morton understands mental ecology as the ground zero of ecological thinking, as that which must be redressed before anything else and above all. Morton goes beyond both his forebears, however, in repairing the rift between science and the humanities, which the Enlightenment opened up and against which Romanticism reacted. Perhaps most pleasantly surprising, given its erudition, is that in its stylistic elegance The Ecological Thought is as satisfying to read as it is necessary to ponder.”
—Vince Carducci

ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE

Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Deleuze Sale at Target is Now On!

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