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Ben Kearvell

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Attended the University of Adelaide. I like philosophy, music and dumb jokes.

D.D. Johnston, author of Peace, Love and Petrol Bombs, and the very funny, very erudite and very excellent Deconstruction of Professor Thrub, has written a review of The Meaning of Manuel. Find it here . I'd like to put it on the website; I don't know how. All up this website could use some attention - obviously in more than a few ways (ha!). I guess I'll have to see about that. If you're reading Read more of this blog post »

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The Meaning of Manuel

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012

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Complete Works

by Baruch Spinoza

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Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives

by François Dosse

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The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, #3)

by Marcel Proust

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Ben’s Quotes

“Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.”
― Roland Barthes, Writing Degree Zero

tags: literary-theory, literature, roland-barthes

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“Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!”
― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: lacan, psychoanalysis, shit

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“It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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“Oh if only instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense anus!”
― Comte de Lautréamont

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“Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpretation, without taking stock. Let there just be fluxes, which sometimes dry up, freeze or overflow, which sometimes combine or diverge.”
― Gilles Deleuze