Category Archives: William E Connolly

William E Connolly on the Return of the Big Lie

at The Contemporary Condition

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Theory & Event supplement on Occupy

Theory & Event special issue. Open access for three months – papers by Zizek, Wendy Brown, John Protevi, Bill Connolly, McKenzie Wark and others. Thanks to John Protevi for the link.

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William Connolly workshop audio files

The audio files of the conference on A World of Becoming held last week are now available here, including Connolly’s own closing lecture. My own talk is here, along with the powerpoint slides of the full quotes from Connolly’s book.

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Connolly ‘A World of Becoming’ workshop

Very enjoyable workshop on William E. Connolly’s A World of Becoming yesterday. One of the striking things was how different the various papers were, picking on lots of aspects of the book and taking them in a range of directions. … Continue reading

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Of: Becoming World – on William Connolly

‘Of: Becoming World’ is the title of the talk I’ll be giving at the workshop on William E. Connolly’s A World of Becoming. I begin by showing how the title’s ambiguity hinges on the word ‘of’: there is so much … Continue reading

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Faith, Citizenship and Globalisation conference in Durham

“Faith, Citizenship and Globalisation: Religion and the Citizen as Categories in a World of Becoming” Durham University, 19-20 May 2011 This one-day conference will explore the relationship between religion and citizenship within our contemporary “world of becoming”, as our guest … Continue reading

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Nancy, Badiou, Connolly on contemporary events

Jean-Luc Nancy supports the war in Libya (some excerpts in English here); which Alain Badiou criticises here. William Connolly takes a broader view of ‘The Politics of the Event’ here.

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William Connolly conference poster

Poster of William Connolly conference in London on 26 May 2011, here. More details here.

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Roundup

Back in Canberra after a great few days in Tasmania. Will it be five years before I’m there again? Anyway, a post with a bunch of links… More stuff on blogs, here, here and here. More on the ‘Animal, Vegetable, … Continue reading

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Reading at ANU

Since I arrived here I’ve been doing quite a lot of reading, as I am at that interesting stage of a new project where you have a few ideas and begin following promising leads. Some of them, of course, turn … Continue reading

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