International Journal of Zizek Studies – Call For Graduate Student ...
This special graduate student issue of the International Journal of Žižek Studies will explore the relationship between Slavoj Žižek's and Alain Badiou's work. It asks, how can we combine Žižek's and Badiou's work? ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 03:33PM EST
Ecstatic Days » Blog Archive » Lightness: Italo Calvino's hope for ...
She's published here and there and can be spotted, when she thinks you're not looking, at www.gioclairval.blogspot.com, first place in the internets (evar) to showcase Umberto Eco's “rules for writing well” in the tongue Inglès. Being ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 03:14PM EST
About Difficult Democracy Italy A
The Politics of Radical A number of contemporary theorists and political commentators, including Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, William Connolly, Jacques Rancière, Claude Lefort, Sheldon Wolin, Michael … ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 03:10PM EST
devotion frees: forgetting . . .
Jean Baudrillard Cool Memories I have been on the road for nearly 9 months - about 7700 miles, close to 8400 miles including boat travel. I crossed the Tropic of Cancer and the Equator. My journey is beyond the half way point. ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 02:58PM EST
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs – Album Review (the only one you need to ...
An Italian writer, Umberto Eco, in "The City of Robots," Travels in Hyperreality, spoke about simulacrum indirectly, which is the idea that when we recreate things, our new creation will lack the sustainable qualities of the original. ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 01:00PM EST
Slavoj Zizek. About European Graduate School. 2006 2/2
... Slavoj Zizek interviewed by Wei Chan and Christian Haenggi, talking about European Graduate School, teaching philosophies and academia, and referring to Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 12:17PM EST
Slavoj Zizek. About European Graduate School. 2006 2/2
www.egs.edu Slavoj Zizek interviewed by Wei Chan and Christian Haenggi, talking about European Graduate School, teaching philosophies and academia, and referring to Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 12:17PM EST
Slavoj Zizek. About European Graduate School. 2006 2/2
www.egs.edu Slavoj Zizek interviewed by Wei Chan and Christian Haenggi, talking about European Graduate School, teaching.
Posted 07/30/2010 at 12:17PM EST
Slavoj Zizek. About European Graduate School. 2006 2/2
He is the author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, 1989, Beyond Discourse Analysis (a part in Ernesto Laclau's New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time), London: Verso. 1990, For They Know Not What They Do … Tagged as: 2006, about ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 12:17PM EST
Draft Translation of the “Introduction” to Malabou's Changer de la ...
These four texts each contain, in their own ways, an address to Jacques Derrida, who accompanied me for so long and first showed me the type of difficulty awaiting a “woman” when she intends to become a “philosopher”. ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 11:07AM EST
HISTORY OF IDEAS: Georges Dumezil, on Indo European languages and ...
Michel Foucault, for instance, benefitted from his patronage when Dumézil arranged for him to teach temporarily in Uppsala early on in his career. Many themes of Dumézil's work have continued influence in ancient religious studies: for ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 11:02AM EST
Word Virus - Why Can't I Feel What I See? | Adbusters ...
If we ask Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, modernization is “a process by which capitalism uproots and makes mobile that which is grounded, clears away or obliterates that which impedes circulation, and makes exchangeable what is ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 10:24AM EST
Word Virus - Why Can't I Feel What I See? | Adbusters ...
I turned to French philosopher Jean Baudrillard for some illumination on this conundrum. It seems that in the 19th century, for the first time in history, humans began to require observable proof of happiness. According to Baudrillard ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 10:24AM EST
This being so, the leading writers of the “New Left” Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, and Michel Foucault become highly relevant for conservatives and libertarians. They are relevant not because their analysis of liberal democracy was ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 07:40AM EST
How do you tell good quality people from people with NPD ? | Home ...
You make people sound like commodoties "Good quality People"? in what context? "good skill" at what? Customer service? If you wrote this rubbish you should give yourself a slap and rethink it. michel foucault says: ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 07:13AM EST
P.A.S.T. PROJECTS: Reading A Wave Book Selection.
Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino. Cinema 1 by Gilles Deleuze. Bauhaus by Frank Whitford. And all the submissions for the collaboration with Elena Bajo are all filed away within the archive. Posted by Paul Sammut at 23:41 ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 06:41AM EST
At Films Abroad, Why Do I Laugh Alone?
Umberto Eco has written critically – I think in Travels in Hyperreality, or maybe How to Travel with a Salmon – about this cultural imperative. Why is it that people who don't visit museums or galleries back home feel like they ought to ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 06:00AM EST
Espirais Formativos: Organismo e Experiência: Deleuze & Brain
He is the author of The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Continuum, 2002) and Report to the Academy: The New Conflict of the Faculties (Critical Studies in Humanities) (The Davies Group, 2001). Gregory Flaxman is finishing his ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 04:30AM EST
SCT @ Cornell (Part 5c: Butler and Foucault) « Orts, Scraps, and ...
This time I want to take a lengthy look at Judith Butler's defense of Foucault (included in the volume). [To clarify: Is Critique Secular? comprises an introduction by Wendy Brown, an essay by Asad and Mahmood respectively, a response ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 02:35AM EST
aphrael's travails: Istanbul Photos-18
Michel Foucault; Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 11:30PM EST
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical ...
I think most charity is a selfish act of people who feel good with current time of their generosity. Unless its solved permanently, there is more harm in “helping”. That's why I say; what Bill Gates is doing with Malaria in Africa is ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 11:25PM EST
aphrael's travails: Istanbul Photos-17
Michel Foucault; Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 11:24PM EST
Doing philosophy with a baby girl: Music and Speech
This blog is an informal archive of these conversations, with the vague hope that as was true of Jacques Lacan or Giorgio Agamben, taking childhood and children seriously will make me a better thinker... and a better father. ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 11:04PM EST
Thursday, July 29, 2010. The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and, therefore, intelligence. [Jean Baudrillard]. Posted by l0ckergn0me at 2:45 PM ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 09:45PM EST
Review of “To Change the World” (Essay 2, Chp. 7 “Rethinking Power ...
This idea of “symbolic violence,” Hunter notes, is drawn from the work of Pierre Bourdieu, and his broader ideas of power are influenced by, among others, Michel Foucault. He disagrees with postmodernists like Nietzsche and Foucault ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 07:52PM EST
RSA Animation: Slavoj Zizek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce ...
RSA Animation: Slavoj Zizek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce Loading mentions Retweet. Posted 5 hours ago. 0 comments. Leave a comment... Got an account with one of these? Login here, or just enter your comment below. ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 07:40PM EST
RSA Animation: Slavoj Zizek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce ...
RSA Animation: Slavoj Zizek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce Loading mentions Retweet. Posted 1 hour ago. 0 comments. Leave a comment... Got an account with one of these? Login here, or just enter your comment below. ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 07:40PM EST
cineosis: Shed Your Tears and Walk Away (Jez Lewis, UK, 2009)
Gilles Deleuze, in his taxonomy of cinema, describes this kind of films as an affection-image. Rather than concentrate upon a character's actions, affection-image films are organised through close-ups of faces which express intensive ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 07:02PM EST
The term “meta-narrative” is used here with specific reference to Jean-Francois Lyotard's assumption that there is in fact a representation of universal truth, one commonly but not exclusively associated with a positive ethico-political ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 07:02PM EST
15 Scary Spooky Halloween Quotes to Chill You Right Through to ...
Jean Baudrillard. 10. “Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.” ~ Henry C. Link. 11. “There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 07:01PM EST
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Gender Me, Gender Religion
(Please note how much I rely on Judith Butler here, but I also employ Erving Goffman, too.) Students shouted comments ranging from flattery to obscenity at me, and frankly, I am amazed that I continued to do this teaching practice. ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 06:59PM EST