Category Archives: Etienne Balibar

Étienne Balibar – Anti-Humanism, and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

Audio recording of a lecture with response and discussion, here. (Thanks to Sam Kinsley for the link) The controversy opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” was especially virulent in the 1960s and 70s in France, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism … Continue reading →

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Political Theology and Early Modernity

Posted on May 6, 2012 by

Interesting looking collection edited by Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton, with a postface by Etienne Balibar. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Books, Carl Schmitt, Etienne Balibar, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Walter Benjamin, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Borders of Justice

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

Borders of Justice – new book edited by Étienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra and Ranabir Samaddar. You can read the introduction here.

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Rancière, Macherey, Balibar in review

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

The Notes Taken rounds up three reviews.

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Pierre Macherey – where to start?

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

I was sent the following query as a followup to the recent post on the review of Macherey’s Hegel or Spinoza: With all the recent notices over the new translation of Pierre Macherey’s Hegel or Spinoza, I was thinking of … Continue reading →

Posted in Etienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey | 5 Comments

Topology at the Tate Modern

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

A series of talks from 5 November 2011 to 12 May 2012: Giorgio Agamben, Etienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Drucilla Cornell, Olafur Eliasson, David Harvey, Bruno Latour, Achille Mbembe, Ernesto Neto, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Peter Weibel are among the … Continue reading →

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Balibar, Brassier, Singularum

Posted on April 20, 2011 by

Etienne Balibar’s recent talk ‘Eleven Theses on Marx and Marxism’ at CRMEP is available here.  (via Infinite Thought) Interview with Ray Brassier here (via Speculative Heresy) And a new journal Singularum has been founded. It looks nice and the site is worth … Continue reading →

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Alexander von Humboldt lecture

Posted on May 30, 2010 by

I’ve been asked to give one of the Alexander von Humboldt lectures at the Radboud University of Nijmegen in September 2010. I’m really pleased to accept this. The theme is on Making European Space(s). They’ve had some really interesting people … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Derek Gregory, Edward Soja, Etienne Balibar, Territory | Leave a comment