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Monthly Archives: September 2013

Jane Bennett on the Call of Things

September 20, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Jane Bennett on the Call of Things The Call of Things: Jane Bennett Talks About Hoarders at the Vera List Center “Her talk examined the idea that hoarders (as portrayed […]

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The Anthropocene and the Apocalypse: from the ecological to the ecologistical

September 19, 2013by Arran Crawford 10 Comments

The question of ecological ethics and politics has been raised once again. I occasionally fear that our images of ecology and politics remain stills rather than cinematic motion pictures. This […]

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Malabou’s Emotional Life in a Neurobiological Age: On Wonder

September 19, 2013by dmf 1 Comment

“In the light of the most recent neurobiological research on the emotional brain, Catherine Malabou, professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University (UK), proposes to replace Deleuze’s statement about […]

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Com-posting or Weeding and Writing the World, Dan Mellamphy

September 19, 2013by dmf 10 Comments

http://uwo.academia.edu/mellamphy Lecture at B.Stiegler’s seminar on Nietzsche and his fellow investigators of fragmentation and transduction in the wake of  the pre-Platonic phusiologoi, I really appreciate the emphasis here on what […]

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Ethics and Politics in the Anthropocene?

September 18, 2013by ||| 11 Comments

Much has been made lately of the claim that we have entered a new geologic epoch provocatively termed the ‘Anthropocene’. The gist of the claim is that humans have intervened […]

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Forensic Aesthetics – Roundtable III: Animism

September 18, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVm8DymzKMc “In the habituated scheme of modernity, objects are conceived as the passive stuff on which human action leaves its imprint or trace. Whenever this passive/active…

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The Persistence of Belief

September 17, 2013by Arran Crawford 6 Comments

The elimination and ratification of belief The problem of nihilism is also the problem of belief. If our highest values have corroded and our firmest foundations have been removed from […]

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Bakker, Brassier, Churchland, Dawkins, Dewey, Kant

Political Thought in Heidegger’s Lecture Courses and Seminars of 1933-1935

September 17, 2013by dmf 1 Comment

Richard Polt, professor of Philosophy at Xavier University, October 7, 2011.

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Felix in Exile – William Kentridge

September 16, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kentridge

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Ray Brassier: I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth

September 16, 2013by dmf 1 Comment

Ray Brassier: I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth Ray Brassier interviewed by Marcin Rychter there are times, increasingly these days, when the internecine sqabbles between philosophers […]

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Marshall Berman (RIP) – Emerging From The Ruins

September 15, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

“Emerging From The Ruins Marshall Berman on The ninth annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism. The Graduate Program in Urban Design Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture City College […]

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Everyday violence, the poor and human rights in South Africa

September 15, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Originally posted on fussy fuZZy face:
Since published here: http://www.ldd.org.za/by-type/refereed-articles/130-articles-vol-18/417-auto-generate-from-title.html as Stewart L “Rights discourse and practices, everyday violence and social protests: Who counts as subject and whose lives are…

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The Making and Unmaking of the Precariat – Loïc Wacquant

September 14, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Excerpts of Class in Crisis: The Making and Unmaking of the Precariat – Loïc Wacquant, University of California Berkeley Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin in June 2009 http://loicwacquant.net/ http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/441/id/232343/wed-6-08-11-punitive-turn

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Faith In The Empty Space Of God

September 13, 2013by Arran Crawford 4 Comments

The Undeath of God.  God is dead: If there is a more paradigmatic, concise, and ecstatic expression of nihilism it has yet to be uttered. God is dead: there are […]

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Nancy, Nietzsche, Vattimo

Bifo on the Collapse of Modern Hope

September 13, 2013by dmf 4 Comments

“For historicist thinking and militant practice refuse to consider depression as a cognitive element, and this is a limit, one that today, for example, prevents us from being lucid about […]

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Yoshima Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips

September 13, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Her name is Yoshima she’s a black belt in karate working for the city she has to discipline her body ‘Cause she knows that it’s demanding to defeat those evil […]

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The Precariat: The Dangerous New Class

September 12, 2013by dmf 2 Comments

Professor Guy Standing speaks of the Precariat, an emerging new class based on job insecurity. http://www.guystanding.com/

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What is mental illness today? 5 hard questions by Nikolas Rose

September 10, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

“Professor Rose is one of our leading contemporary social scientists. Currently he is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King’s College, […]

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Polly Higgins: Law of Ecocide

September 9, 2013by dmf 1 Comment

Award-winning author of Eradicating Ecocide, barrister and international environmental lawyer, Polly proposed to the U.N. in April 2010 that a law of Ecocide be classed as a 5th international crime […]

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Global Crisis: Unsettled Practices – Work and Expert Knowledge

September 7, 2013by dmf 1 Comment

Into Lauren Berlant. Speakers: Michael Hardt, Duke University; Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago. Discussant: Andreas Glaeser, University of Chicago.

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