A recording of Zizek on apocalypticism from the other day is now online (thanks René Wolf, person with the splendid name). I couldn't get in to the lecture in the end (or rather, I decided that I shouldn't get in...heh, vague! Confusing!). Anyway, there were tons of people waiting outside who...

...is out and online now. It's all about Simondon. Editors' Introduction Arne De Boever, Alex Murray, Jon Roffe and Ashley Woodward Feature Translations The Position of the Problem of Ontogenesis Gilbert Simondon, translated by Gregory Flanders Technical Mentality Gilbert Simondon, translated by Arne De BoeverESSAYS AND REVIEWS Features 'Du mort qui saisit le vif': Simondonian ontology today Jean-Hughes Barthélémy, translated by Justin Clemens "Technical Mentality" Revisited: Brian Massumi on Gilbert Simondon With Arne De Boever, Alex Murray and Jon Roffe The Theater of Individuation: Phase-shift and Resolution in Simondon and Heidegger Bernard Stiegler, translated by Kristina...

by Ryland Walker Knight [The Resnais series playing at the PFA this month and next is part of a broader, traveling retrospective with a concurrent run in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center and a proposed stop at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in early 2010.] Perhaps...

I'm gutted that this clashes with the Tate event, but if you can make this you should go: Stella is a great speaker and her work on Firestone is brilliant and timely. 26 November The Dialectic in The Dialectic of Sex Stella Sandford (CRMEP, Middlesex University) Seminars...

Dmitry Vilensky & Alexei Penzin from Chto delat/What is to be done? Lecture: Tuesday December 1st at 6.00pm Small Hall / Cinema (to the side of Loafers) Richard Hoggart Building Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW Chto delat/What is to be done? was founded in 2003 in Petersburg by...

As the search for a new IFP executive director continues, indie film producer Joana Vicente (who with her husband Jason Kliot have made independent movies with their labels, Open City Films, Blow Up Pictures and HDNet Films) has been named the interim head of the non-profit organization according to a release sent out today. Vicente, who is a member of the committee looking for a new head of the IFP, will join IFP next week to work on the transition with Michelle Byrd, who has lead the organization for the last 12 years and announced her departure back in June. The IFP is the publisher of Filmmaker Magazine.

Ask me my favorite Hitchcock film and I'll shoot you back the obvious answer: Vertigo, the director's cinematic and fetishistic embodiment of romantic obsession. Ask me the film I'd be most likely to pop into my DVD player and re-watch for fun and I've another obvious answer: North by Northwest, his smart and stylish paranoid thriller, which he made the following year. And while Vertigo inspired a whole rash of erotic thrillers in the '90s — Basic Instinct and all its imitators — North by Northwest's sly take on the American security stake feels perfectly of the moment. The good folks at Warner Bros. Home Video have offered three copies of the new North by Northwest 50th Anniversary Special...

by Steven Boone Hippy dippy Woodstock director Michael Wadleigh made only one narrative feature film, the majestically weird horror fable Wolfen. Having not seen it since Late Late Show screenings in the 1980's, I remembered Wolfen, faintly, as that other...

by Ryland Walker Knight —Have a heart-rose, shy off