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Walter Benjamin on Photography: Towards Elemental Politics — Mika Elo

Benjamin, Trauma and the Virtual — Allen Meek

Cybersurgery and Surgical (Dis)embodiment: Technology, Science, Art and the Body — Julie Doyle

Fossilising the Commodity: Tactical Engagements with Time, Art and the Virtual in Models by Ricky Swallow — Marita Bullock

Aura as Productive Loss — Warwick Mules

The Horror of Disconnection: The Auratic in Technological Malfunction — Martin Dixon

“Politicizing Art”: Benjamin’s Redemptive Critique of Technology in the Age of Fascism — Amresh Sinha

Dialectical Film Criticism: Walter Benjamin’s Historiography, Cultural Critique and the Archive — Catherine Russell

The Dissipating Aura of Cinema — Kristen Daly

From Flâneur to Web Surfer: Videoblogging, Photo Sharing and Walter Benjamin @ the Web 2.0 — Simon Lindgren

Contemplative Immersion: Benjamin, Adorno & Media Art Criticism — Daniel Palmer

Tillers of the Soil/Travelling Journeymen: Modes of the Virtual — A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul

Paradise Regained? The Work of Mediation Technology in an Age of Open Communities — John Grech

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a new entry on this topic.

It’s a gigantic file…

In addition to getting Len Lawlor from Memphis, the department of philosophy at Penn State announced that Robert Bernasconi will join the department in 2009.

Kathryn Gines is joining PSU this coming fall.

Rome, Italy - 1-4 Sep 2008

Among keynote speakers: Agamben and Zizek.

CFP: There will be panels on:

* Metaphysics
* Systemtatic Theology
* Politics and Theology
* Islam and Christianity
* The Disenchantment of the Cosmos
* Faith with/against Reason

We are interested in papers that cover any topic relevant to the conference theme, but are especially interested in questions of religion and empire, Christianity and Islam, humanism and universalism, the reunification of the Apostolic Churches, and Scripture and Metaphysics.

Applicants must submit an abstract of their paper no longer than 200 words, emailing it to conor.cunningham@nottingham.ac.uk or filling out our Paper Abstracts submission page. The deadline for the paper abstract is 1st June, 2008.

(H/t: Eric Lee)

Fark Yaralari has posted quite a few good books on Deleuze.

Link

The World Picture Conference on The Popular
October 24 and 25, 2008
Oklahoma State University

Keynote Speakers: Ernesto Laclau and Lauren Berlant

The World Picture conference is an annual meeting devoted to theory that takes place in the intimate setting of Stillwater, Oklahoma. This year’s meeting will gather theorists from around the world, and from across disciplines, to address questions of the popular. We are accepting proposals for papers that address this issue in any number of ways. Some possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

Heteronomy/Autonomy
Populism
Styles of the Popular
The Unpopular
Hegemony and Style
Metaphor and the Masses
Intimacy
Citizenship
Revolution
Sentimentality
The Public and the Popular

World Picture is a new online journal of experimental theory: www.worldpicturejournal.com. The journal is edited by Brian Price (Oklahoma State University), John David Rhodes (University of Sussex) and Meghan Sutherland (Oklahoma State University). Appearing two times per year, each issue of World Picture will be devoted to a single question or concept that will be addressed by scholars across disciplines.

Proposals (including a brief bio) should be sent to Brian Price (brian.price@okstate.edu) by June 2.

(H/t: Scott Krzych)

In her wonderfully crafted book, Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender, Ellen K. Feder provides an original philosophical account of the complex relationships between race and gender. Feder’s analysis begins where most others end: with the complaint that we seem unable to attend to both race and gender at the same time. Many philosophers, especially feminists of color, have worked hard to get others to notice our inability to discuss race and gender together. Feder builds on that work, with a particular indebtedness to that of Hortense Spillers, to provide an account of how and why we repeatedly fail to attend to multiple differences simultaneously, even though we know that they are intertwined. Feder achieves this by telling stories that reveal the different ways that power acts both within and on families to shape us as gendered and raced persons.

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The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking

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Table of Contents

The Spirit of The Age and the Fate of Philosophical Thinking — Paul Ashton, Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos
Would Hegel Be A ‘Hegelian’ Today? — H. S. Harris
Hegel, Idealism and God: Philosophy as the Self-Correcting Appropriation of the Norms of Life and Thought — Paul Redding
Hegel, Derrida and the Subject — Simon Lumsden
Hegel’s Science of Logic and the “Sociality of Reason” — Jorge Armando Reyes
The Ego as World: Speculative Justification and the Role of the Thinker in Hegel’s Philosophy — Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos
Hegel Today: Towards a Tragic Conception of Intercultural Conflicts — Karin G de Boer
Sein und Geist: Heidegger’s Confrontation with Hegel’s Phenomenology — Robert Sixto Sinnerbrink
Hegel, Recognition And Rights: ‘Anerkennung’ As A Gridline Of The Philosophy Of Rights — Jürgen Lawrenz
Hegel’s Theory of Moral Action, its Place in his System and the ‘Highest’ Right of the Subject — David Rose
Being and Implication: On Hegel and the Greeks — Andrew Haas
The Relevance of Hegel’s Logic — John W Burbidge
Agamben, Hegel, and the State of Exception — Wendell Kisner
Gathering and Dispersing: The Absolute Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy — George Vassilacopoulos
Hegel and the Becoming of Essence — David Gray Carlson
Dialectical Reason and Necessary Conflict—Understanding and the Nature of Terror — Angelica Nuzzo
The Spirit (of our Time) is and is not a Bone. — Johan Vandycke
The Beginning Before the Beginning: Hegel and the Activation of Philosophy — Paul Ashton
Kierkegaard’s Ethical Stage In Hegel’s Logical Categories: Actual Possibility, Reality And Necessity — María J. Binetti
El estadio ético de Kierkegaard en las categorías lógicas de Hegel: posibilidad, realidad y necesidad actuales – María J. Binetti

One day, the gods retreated. On their own, they retreated from their divinity, that is to say, from their presence. What remains of their presence is what remains of all presence when it absents itself: what remains is what one can say about it. What can be said about it is what remains when one can no longer address it: neither speak to it, nor touch it, nor see it, nor give it a present.

(One might even say that the gods retreated because one no longer gives a present to their presence: no more sacrifice, no more oblation, except by way of custom or imitation. One has other things to do: write, for example, calculate, do business, legislate. Deprived of presents, presence has retreated.)

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