When David Brooks & Slavoj Zizek Agree: Is the Apocalypse Near ...
Who would have thought that it would take the block buster film Avatar to get David Brooks, condescending spokesman for the establishment, and Slavoj Zizek, the hyper caffeinated Marxist, to agree on something. ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 11:40PM EST
Jean Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulation Roland Barthes – S/Z. Nota Bene: the key to reading theory, especially at first, is not to bother with “understanding” what is being presented, but rather to “soak in it. ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 09:33PM EST
New blog post Judith Butler. Hannah Arendt, Ethics, and Responsibility. 2009 1/10 here: http://health.worldonlinereview.com/2010/03/09/judith-butler-hannah-arendt-ethics-and-responsibility-2009-110/
Posted 03/09/2010 at 08:31PM EST
Alobar Greywalker: Magickal Record (aka Frater PVN, LA-BAJ-AL ...
Slavoj Žižek: 'Cameron's Avatar is a conservative, racist fantasy'. I keep reading comments about the movie Avatar in various blogs. Some love it; others don't like the plotline and assumptions. I have never watched it, ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 07:53PM EST
Solomonia Quicklinks: Collaborators in the War against the Jews ...
Collaborators in the War against the Jews: Judith Butler - 'Professor Judith Butler from Berkeley's Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature is not just your ordinary deconstructionist feminist anti-Semite. ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 07:52PM EST
Slavoj Žižek: 'Cameron's Avatar is a conservative, racist fantasy ...
Return of the natives: Beneath the idealism and political correctness of Avatar, in the spotlight at the Oscars on Sunday, lie brutal racist.
Posted 03/09/2010 at 06:00PM EST
Muntz Library Features Book Display for Women's History Month 2010 ...
“Hailed as “one of the most significant contributions yet made to feminist literature” by The New York Review of Books and praised by Michel Foucault as being “remarkable for its rediscovering of texts and also for its study of feelings ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 04:40PM EST
Clarissa's Blog: Slavoj Zizek on Freedom
Slavoj Zizek on Freedom. I'm sorry, people, but I will continue bombarding you with quotes from Zizek. His writing is so beautiful and powerful, that I simply have to share it. This is Zizek on freedom and the true meaning of democracy: ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 02:55PM EST
» A Lesson in (Public) Sex Ed from Aaron Sleazy: Rob's Review of ...
If a line exists between Tucker Max and Charles Bukowski, Penthouse Letters and Michel Foucault, exhibitionism and self-improvement, then Aaron Sleazy straddles it. And, as his book recounts, it's not the only thing Sleazy's straddling. ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 02:00PM EST
Lisa Gornick on Hélène Cixous (Part 1) « Bagels and Books
Lisa Gornick on Hélène Cixous (Part 1). Lisa Gornick is a filmmaker. She has written and directed two feature films: Do I Love You? (2003) and Tick Tock Lullaby (2007). Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 01:02PM EST
Zavier Ellis AKA Charlie Smith: 'Choose life or celebrate at the ...
According to one of the leading philosophers of art today, Alain Badiou, there are two conflicting and constitutive poles of contemporary art, two norms of what a subject is, two subjective paradigms at war with each other: the subject ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 12:29PM EST
About Me. Ruwan: Just finished with my architecture degree and off to Brisbane for post-grad. My final year project looked at systems of morphogenesis and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. View my complete profile.
Posted 03/09/2010 at 12:24PM EST
The soul is the prison of the body. Let us sin then, and sin to infinity. The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of.
Posted 03/09/2010 at 11:52AM EST
As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every.
Posted 03/09/2010 at 11:16AM EST
Are we heading for a new form of universal language ,devoid of ...
Jean-François Lyotard analyses the end of metanarratives in the postmodern culture. “The narrative function is losing its great hero, its great dangers, its great voyages, and its great goal”. According to Lyotard, they were stopped, ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 10:33AM EST
Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way. There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is.
Posted 03/09/2010 at 10:31AM EST
Return of the natives: Slavoj Žižek on Avatar for the New ...
Return of the natives: Slavoj Žižek on Avatar for the New Statesman. March 9, 2010. Slavoj Žižek argues that beneath the idealism and political correctness of Avatar, in the spotlight at the Oscars on Sunday 7 March, lie brutal racist ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 09:17AM EST
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.
Posted 03/09/2010 at 09:13AM EST
Brotherwise Interviews & Exclusives: POSTMODERN ICONOCLASTIC FRAGMENTS
As far as the question of desire was concerned, I already had some marked disagreements with Jean-Francois Lyotard, and even with Gilles Deleuze . . . while entirely admiring their 'machine', which was very desirable, but from my point ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 07:57AM EST
Brotherwise Interviews & Exclusives: POSTMODERN ICONOCLASTIC FRAGMENTS
As far as the question of desire was concerned, I already had some marked disagreements with Jean-Francois Lyotard, and even with Gilles Deleuze . . . while entirely admiring their 'machine', which was very desirable, but from my point ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 07:57AM EST
Brotherwise Interviews & Exclusives: POSTMODERN ICONOCLASTIC FRAGMENTS
Jean Baudrillard – I referred to the Situationists, but never in my writings or analyses. I spoke about them, in my lectures at Nanterre, for example. How could you not speak about them? And then, we were very close, but I never had any ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 07:57AM EST
Obama in the Age of the Political Eschaton
[12] Giorgio Agamben's divine governance, oikonomia, insists a religious element remains central to devices and apparatuses, such may indicate a revanchist grievance beneath ideological explanation.[13] Apparatuses, for Agamben, ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 07:00AM EST
Artistic Endeavors, Excursions, References & Writings ...
Bruce Tiffany, Colin Gardner, Damien Hirst, Dan Graham, Dick Hebdige, Diran Lyons, Edward Tufte, Eduardo Kac, Frances Stark, Frederic Jameson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Hans Haacke, Ignasi Aballi, Joseph Beuys, ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 06:33AM EST
Collaborators in the War against the Jews: Judith Butler ...
Professor Judith Butler from Berkeley's Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature is not just your ordinary deconstructionist feminist anti-Semite. A self-proclaimed leading scholar in the pseudo-discipline of “Queer Studies,” ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 05:55AM EST
Collaborators in the War against the Jews: Judith Butler … | the ...
She “claims that the War on Terror has provided a climate where the sexual freedoms she and others fought for are now misused to symbolize (sic) the shining, gleaming modernity of the West. The backwardness and inferiority of 'others' .
Posted 03/09/2010 at 05:55AM EST
ARTiculations: The Rhetoric of Oppression*
Umberto Eco, in his article, "The Wolf and the Lamb - The Rhetoric of Oppression" (from which the title to this article is borrowed), posits that often enough, an oppressor - such as a dictator - would try to legitimise his oppression. ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 05:23AM EST
Madness and civilization - felix's posterous
Madness and civilization. In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World ... By Michel Foucault. Loading mentions Retweet ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 04:41AM EST
sportsBabel » Pixel to Pellicule to Projection
... will consider myself content with my work if, in attempting to locate the place and theme of testimony, I have erected some signposts allowing future cartographers of the new ethical territory to orient themselves. — Giorgio Agamben ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 04:02AM EST
Chora l Works serves as an assembled documentation of a collaboration between architect Peter Eisenman and philosopher/theorist Jacques Derrida on a project for Parc de la Villette, Paris. Just as this project seems to take Plato's ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 02:39AM EST
ICOPA History – Excerpt from “The Moving Target of Penal ...
In France, the Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (GIP) was founded in 1971 by Jean-Marie Domenach, Michel Foucault and Pierre Vidal-Naquet to provide prisoners with a vehicle 'to speak for themselves' inside and outside prisons to ...
Posted 03/08/2010 at 11:41PM EST
ICOPA History – Excerpt from “The Moving Target of Penal ...
In the last chapter of Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault (1977) discusses 'the carceral'. He describes a network of power relations and technologies that “formed first the immediate surroundings of the prison, then spread farther ...
Posted 03/08/2010 at 11:41PM EST