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the Lost Works of Louise Bryant
The post-colonial, current French writer and feminist Hélène Cixous comes to mind. Someone who might easily explore the context of Louise Bryant as one of sister to the sensual essence of existence. As revealed through form, ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 05:18PM EST
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On Alain Badiou's Number and Numbers - Alain Badiou Number and Numbers (1993) Translated in English 2008 (Robin Mackay) Alain Badiou's work has often been described as incorporating set theory, ... 1 day ago ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 03:40PM EST
Preliminary Thoughts on the Situationists and the City « Prodigies ...
While I still have much to read by the Situationists and the earlier Letterists writings on 'the city,' I am beginning to think their relation to questions posed by Jacques Derrida, specifically in Of Hospitality and Cosmopolitanism and ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 03:25PM EST
Assorted links | www.bullfax.com
They loved each other dearly. How you interpret these women is central to how you view Istanbul. One intuition is that they are quite alike, another is that they are quite different. Assorted links. 1. Michael Pollan or Michel Foucault? ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 03:12PM EST
the Lost Works of Louise Bryant
The post-colonial, current French writer and feminist Hélène Cixous comes to mind. Someone who might easily claim the context of Louise Bryant as one of sister to the sensual essence of existence. As revealed through form, ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 02:44PM EST
The politics of behaviour change « Pop Theory
They seem to be designed to confirm the model of 'governmentality' developed by Michel Foucault, of a mode of power which works by shaping the contexts of individuals' conduct without directly intervening in that conduct. ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 01:14PM EST
Some of us took very little sugar « It's a Reading Life
I listened to the audio book of We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson on car trips and walks while I continue to read Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. The only Shirley Jackson story that I am sure I have read is The ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 12:58PM EST
Zein Times
Jean Baudrillard once noted that the US effectively re-wrote the history of the Vietnam War by exporting Vietnam genre films around the world. Do you think we're seeing the same thing with the invasion of Iraq and the “war on terror”? ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 12:36PM EST
davekirtley: The Marketplace of Ideas Podcast Interviews Jonathan ...
It used to be that I would read papers, when I was graduate school especially, and the first couple sentences would start with, “Jacques Derrida said, 'There is nothing outside the text,'” and from that premise the whole argument is ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 11:21AM EST
the Lost Works of Louise Bryant
The post-colonial, current French writer and feminist Hélène Cixous comes to mind. Someone who might easily claim the context of Louise Bryant as one of sister to the sensual essence of existence. As revealed through form, ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 06:29AM EST
Book Review: Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A ...
The only criticism I have of Parekh's book is in her brief engagement with the work of Giorgio Agamben. Agamben's own political project involves a similar trajectory, making sense of human rights within modernity, and it includes a deep ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 06:20AM EST
The Only Sufficient Motive For Evangelism? | Oikodomē
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell; The Postmodern Condition by Jean-Francois Lyotard; A Heart For Missions, Memoir of Samuel Pearce by Andrew Fuller; Of Empire by Francis Bacon; Doctrine by Mark Driscoll ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 03:37AM EST
I pick things up - Umberto Eco "The name of the rose"
Umberto Eco "The name of the rose". There's not a lot I could write here that hasn't already been said about this book. Suffice to say that I really liked it, it's completely engrossing and in broad strokes, it's a celebration of beauty ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 03:02AM EST
Top 5 Fantasy and Paranormal Picks for September 2010 « Darkeva's Blog
Darkeva's Thoughts: This book is easily my most anticipated book of September; it just sounds fascinating, like a mixture of Umberto Eco and Arturo Perez-Reverte with a dash of Carlos Ruiz Zafon thrown in for good measure. ...
Posted 09/03/2010 at 12:29AM EST
Lutheran Surrealism: THE ILLOGICALITY OF CHRISTIANITY
I'm reading a book by Alain Badiou, called St. Paul. (Stanford: SUP, 2003). Badiou is a Marxist who is trying to use St. Paul to discuss the notion of "universalism." He admires St. Paul but wants to hijack the logic of St. Paul to use ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 11:40PM EST
Philadelphia Neighborhoods » Blog Archive » Nora Alter
(Hélène Cixous's L'histoire (qu'on ne connaitra jamais ),” Fifth Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, The Netherlands (August 1996). “Filming Autobiography: JLG/JLG,” Modern Language ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 11:32PM EST
CheckSwag — Il Sistema Degli Oggetti: Beauty and Baudrillard.
A brand which takes its name from Jean Baudrillard's 1968 seminal publication, The System of Objects, Il Sistema is the product of three talented Politecnico di Milano grads (Caterina Coccioli, Anna Lottersberger, and Alessandro Manzi) ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 08:11PM EST
Conference: Foucault, the Family & Politics (2010) « Refracted input
Completely biased reviews of books, TV, films, Michel Foucault etc. etc. Sous les pavés, la plage. Feeds: Posts Comments ... a My websites. Education and theory network michel-foucault.com Walken Works ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 08:00PM EST
Conference: Foucault, the Family & Politics « Refracted input
Completely biased reviews of books, TV, films, Michel Foucault etc. etc. Sous les pavés, la plage. Feeds: Posts Comments ... Posted in Foucault news, conferences | Tagged family | Leave a Comment ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 08:00PM EST
Secrets from the Curator's Closet: Filthy Novelty
“You stop a horse that is bolting,” wrote Jean Baudrillard. “You do not stop a jogger who is jogging.” Indeed. If I tried to stop her jogging, I'd be trampled underfoot. God knows what would happen if I tried to stop her smoking. ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 07:59PM EST
the-sauce.org: CoR Blimey! Coalition of Resistance declares war on ...
On Alain Badiou's Number and Numbers - Alain Badiou Number and Numbers (1993) Translated in English 2008 (Robin Mackay) Alain Badiou's work has often been described as incorporating set theory, ... 7 hours ago ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 07:57PM EST
Progressive Mirror: Shave Yo' Legs
Jacques Derrida. Jacques Derrida "The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages." Paul Virilio. Paul Virilio "There are eyes everywhere. ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 07:48PM EST
Thisishimthisishe: The Body, The Meat, The Spirit: Becoming Animal ...
The Body, The Meat, The Spirit: Becoming Animal by Gilles Deleuze (Performed by Him in a Work Shirt - Lunch Poem). Man, we, is even shelter of be out tension of between. One the last corporeal, the animal, now, spirit it from also as ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 06:59PM EST
Chez NamasteNancy: Hauntology at the Berkeley Art Museum
The term was first used by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in a 1993 lecture delivered at UC Riverside concerning the state of Marxist thought in the post-Communist era. He described it as a philosophy of history that upsets the ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 06:56PM EST
Legal Theory Blog: Book Announcement: Foucualt's Monsters & the ...
The book draws on Michel Foucault's theoretical and historical treatment of the category of the monster, in which the monster is regarded as the effect of a double breach: of law and nature. For Foucault, the monster does not simply ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 06:01PM EST
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... is open to all graphic designers, illustrators, and artists. The contest involves the creation of a hypothetical book cover for Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose -- a murder mystery set in the confines of a monastery during ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 05:38PM EST
C as a Video Art Installation - Surplus Matter : An Index to the ...
... towards a body of Continental theory that is still largely absent from English fiction, with references to the works of Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot and Gilles Deleuze, ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 05:11PM EST
C as a Video Art Installation - Surplus Matter : An Index to the ...
... towards a body of Continental theory that is still largely absent from English fiction, with references to the works of Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot and Gilles Deleuze, ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 05:11PM EST
SassyMama: One of THOSE Mothers
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell (Fiction); Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (Fiction); The Hidden Christ by James Ferrell (Religion); The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Fiction); Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (Fiction) ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 03:59PM EST
The Crown International Files: My Chauffeur | CriticPlanet.org
In his essay “Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage,” Umberto Eco writes: “Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a ...
Posted 09/02/2010 at 03:37PM EST