My apologies to readers but this site will not be updated for a couple of days. My wife Emily and I just welcomed our first child (Lily) to this world and I need to take a few days off my normal routine. 

Best

Farhang

PSYCHOANALYSIS, CULTURE & SOCIETY: September 2007 Volume 12 Number 3, pp 205 - 304

Psychoanalysis and Interraciality: Asking Different Questions: Annie Stopford

Reparation and Reparations: Towards a Social Psychoanalysis: Benjamin Galatzer-Levy

The Perils of Belonging and Cosmopolitan Optimism: An Affective Reading of the Israeli/palestinian Conflict: Dina Georgis

Pro-space Activism and Narcissistic Phantasy: James S Ormrod

Encounters at Checkpoints: A Longitudinal Study of a Group of Israeli and a Group of Palestinian Children: Roberta J Apfel and Bennett Simon

"Blood at the Root": Lynching, Memory, and Freudian Group Psychology: Jennie Lightweis-Goff

TOC 

Sovereign Right and the Global Left: Susan Buck-Morss

This is Not Me: Lin Lam

Althusser's Catholic Marxism: Roland Boer

Revolution and Revelation: Joan of Arc—A Saint for our Time? :Creston Davis

The Order and Connection of Ideas: Theoretical Practice in Macherey's Turn to Spinoza: Jason Read

Nothing but the World: An Interview with Vacarme: Jean-Luc Nancy

The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters by Zizek

Link

 ESSAYS

New Horizons in Mathematics as a Philosophical Condition: An Interview with Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou with Tzuchien Tho

Restating Sovereignty: On America’s Regaining the Old Sense of the Political
Friedrich Balke
(Up) Against the (In) Between: Interstitial Spatiality in Genet and Derrida
Clare Blackburne

Friendship, Assymetry, Sacrifice: Bataille and Blanchot
Patrick ffrench

Sartre Integrating Ethics and Politics: The Case of Terrorism
Marguerite La Caze

Philosophy's Subjects
Nina Power

A number of great links on Foucault, including a number of online texts.

Uploadphiles is a site that could be of interest for etexts. Recently it featured Kant and Modern Philosophy.

A review of Deleuze and Space and The Deleuze Dictionary

Deleuze and Space is a further volume in the series ‘Deleuze Connections’, which is published by Edinburgh University Press. Previous volumes have usually been jointly edited by Ian Buchanan and another scholar and contained about ten essays by well-known, mostly Anglo-Saxon, Deleuze specialists on the relationships between a particular area, such as feminist theory, literature or music, and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (1925–95). The individual essays are usually very densely and impressively argued, while care has been taken to make sure that each essay covers a slightly different facet of the area under consideration: the overall result is a very slow but ultimately very comprehensive read. The only difference in the case of Deleuze and Space is that there are a few more essays – 13 – and the introductory essay by Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert is slightly longer.

Deleuze did not construct a theory of space per se, but his ontology, arguably his most important contribution to philosophy, is very much predicated on a specific conception of space, one that owes a great deal to Riemannian and differential geometry, post-classical thermodynamics and modern theories of genetics. This means that there are many references to space in Différence et Répétition (1968), one of Deleuze’s two main works. The space he explores is not the empty container surrounding physical objects that one normally thinks of as space: it is a virtual plenum of intensities that underpins and literally brings forth actualised, extensive material entities.

Continue reading the review here

An entire blog dedicated to Jacques Ranciere!

Link

FOR THE SOCIETY’S MEETINGS TO BE HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) in 2008

Marx and the return of Communism

The return to Marx that was more or less announced in mid-ninety-nineties by such works as Derrida’s Specters of Marx was something of an overstatement. Marx had never left academia; concepts such as ideology, alienation, and the analysis of the economy have always been central to study of society and politics. These concepts, part of Marx’s critique of political economy functioned primarily as tools for economic and social analysis. This was the Marx of academic business as usual, the Marx that could be applauded by the writers of the Financial Times and The New Yorker. What did change, however, was a renewed interest in Marx’s emancipatory project: that is, communism. This idea, which was thought to be dead and buried with collapse of the Soviet Union, began to resurface in myriad ways and under different names: as the common in the works of Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno; the axiom of equality in the writing of Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière; Kojin Karatani’s transcritical communism; and Enrique Dussel’s philosophy of liberaton. These authors rethink something that could be called communism not as a form of the state, but as the ground for rethinking the relations between politics and economics, as well as a critical reexamination of the hegemony of neoliberal thought, which puts the autonomous individual at the basis of politics. While we are not looking for essays that necessarily deal with these authors, we are looking for works that pursue the link between the critique of capitalism in the Marxist tradition and the ideal of revolution. In short, we are looking for works that can connect the critique of the present with the imagination of the future.

FOR THE SOCIETY’S MEETING TO BE HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH The Eastern APA (American Philosophical Association) in 2008

Queerness and Colonialism: Then and Now

The shared history of non-normative sexuality and Western colonialism is both long and complicated. This panel invites paper submissions that explore the intersection of sexual identity and national identity in all is iterations: from the gendering of native peoples to the rise of sex tourism. How, for instance, does gender inform conceptions of race and ethnicity? To what extend does being at home sexually involve being displaced culturally? What effects do foreign occupation and/or tourism have on local sexual norms and practices? How has immigration been associated with sexual deviance? How has economic globalization begun to globalize queer practices?

Both due March 1, 2008

For the electronic submission of all papers, or for questions regarding any of our Call for Papers, please contact the Conference Committee at: Fouad Kalouche papers@sspp.us . For more information about the society, see our website: www.sspp.us

(Via Jason Read)

Blackwell is granting temporary free access to some of its journal articles. Two articles from Critical Quarterly and one from the Yale Review may be of interest:

JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ: Aspace of Dumbillsilly: when Joyce translates Lacan

ANDREW BRIGHTON: Consumed by the political: the ruination of the Arts Council

MARTIN GREENBERG: Concerning Hannah Arendt. She knew she was right