Category Archives: People

Zizek on Authoritarian Capitalism

Posted on October 10, 2012 by stuartelden

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

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

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

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

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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Simon Critchley Summer Seminar: Levinas – Ethics, Politics and the Problem of Violence

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Continental Philosophy has news of Simon Critchley’s summer seminar on ‘Levinas – Ethics, Politics and the Problem of Violence’, to be held in Tilburg July 20-27, 2013. Full details here.

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Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life reissue

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life – a classic Situationist text – is being reissued in a revised translation. Details here (via Territorial Masquerades). Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories at Warwick – audio available

Posted on October 8, 2012 by stuartelden

The lecture at Warwick on Wednesday last week was well attended – people sitting on the floor, even – and there were some interesting questions. Nice to see some old friends and colleagues, though this was largely a PhD student led event. I’ve … Continue reading →