Monthly Archives: December 2013

Heidegger and antisemitism – ‘a new Heidegger affair’?

If you read French, this is an interesting discussion of what is called ‘a new Heidegger affair’ – the comments on antisemitism in a forthcoming volume of the Gesamtausgabe. [Update: I mistakenly said this was Volume 73; it is rather Volumes … Continue reading

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Vannini and Taggart on off-grid living

A short video linked to a paper in Society and Space, with the paper open access for a short time in recompense for the authors’ additional material for the open site. This is something we are trying to do more … Continue reading

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Simon Critchley on Nietzsche, the death of God and nihilism in three minutes

via critical-theory.com

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Journal of Urban Cultural Studies – first issue now open access

The launch issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is now available open access.

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Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment – forthcoming

A previously unpublished manuscript by Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press. Edited by Łukasz Stanek and translated by Robert Bonnano, this is going to be a significant moment in the discussion of his work, … Continue reading

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The ten books that have stayed with me…

This originated on Facebook, and I had it from Helga Tawil-Souri. Rules: In your status line, list 10 books that have stayed with you. Don’t take more than a few minutes; don’t think too hard. They don’t have to be … Continue reading

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Alain Badiou – The Althusserian Definition of Theory – audio recording

Alain Badiou’s “The Althusserian Definition of Theory” lecture is available as an audio recording here. Althusser seeks to destroy the opposition between theory and practice and seeks to replace the Real of production with practice. By destroying the dialectical relationship … Continue reading

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Nina Power – Lecturers must stand with students to preserve the right to protest

Nina Power has a challenging piece in The Guardian on students and the right to protest, and the role lecturers need to take.

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Theory of the drone 12: ‘Killing well’?

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
This is the 12th in a series of extended posts on Grégoire Chamayou‘s Théorie du drone and covers the final chapter in Part III: Necro-ethics, called ‘Précisions’; in French the singular means accuracy, as you might expect, but the plural…

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Semiotext(e) Nietzsche’s Return and Schizo-Culture – open access

Semiotext(e) Vol. 3, No. 1: Nietzsche’s Return and Semiotext(e), Vol 3, No 2: Schizo-Culture (both 1978) are available open access. The first has contributions from Georges Bataille, John Cage, Daniel Charles, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, François Fourquet, Lee Hildreth, Denis Hollier, … Continue reading

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