Monthly Archives: October 2012

Slavoj Žižek discusses ‘The Year of Dreaming Dangerously’

Radio discussion with Slavoj Žižek on CBC.

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Discussion with Bruno Latour and Francis Halsall in Society and Space.

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Mark Poster (1941-2012)

Mark Poster, intellectual historian of French thought and theorist of media and information, died yesterday. I never met him or heard him speak, but he was important to me through his writings. Perhaps best known for his work on Baudrillard, Sartre, … Continue reading

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New issue of Society and Space out.

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A Map of the World Based on Book Publishing

In The Atlantic Wire.

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Zizek on Authoritarian Capitalism

Slavoj Žižek discusses who won the recession and the idea of authoritarian capitalism in Foreign Policy. Looks like an excerpt or teaser for The Year of Dreaming Dangerously.

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Reading the Classics of Western Philosophy

List below and survey here. The queston asked is how many of these have you read. And the whole of these books, not some, not an abbreviated form. I’m claiming 18 of these, and bits, sometimes substantial, of others. Never read any Sidgwick, Moore, … Continue reading

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Books, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Graham Harman, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Locke, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Taipei Biennial 2012 texts

If the font doesn’t give you a headache, there are a range of interesting texts to download here. Anselm Franke, Henri Lefebvre, Alberto Toscano et. al.

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Romanillos reviews Malabou’s The New Wounded

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On Academic Labour and Reviewing for Journals (again)

Piece at The Chronicle, via Path to the Possible.

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