Part 2

Foro Social Mundial México 2008

(h/t: Azadeh Erfani)

TOC

Toward a Theoretical Outline of the Subject: The Centrality of Adorno and Lacan for Feminist Political Theorizing — Claudia Leeb

Ethics and Subjectivity: Practices of Self-Governance in the Late Lectures of Michel Foucault — Nancy Luxon

Voting the General Will: Rousseau on Decision Rules — Melissa Schwartzberg

Harriet Martineau on the Theory and Practice of Democracy in America — Lisa Pace Vetter

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick is hosting a Nietzsche workshop on Thursday 5 June 2008:

Full programme information/speakers can be found at:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/nietzscheworkshops2008/openworkshop/

Please register soon to ensure a place

Richard Crary has been reading Blanchot’s The Space of Literature and is sharing his thoughts.

Link to his blog: The Existence Machine

Penn State Press is publishing Sally Scholz’s latest book, entitled Political Solidarity:

From the publisher’s description:

Experiences of solidarity have figured prominently in the politics of the modern era, from the rallying cry of liberation theology for solidarity with the poor and oppressed through feminist calls for sisterhood to such political movements as Solidarność in Poland. Yet very little academic writing has focused on solidarity in conceptual rather than empirical terms.

Sally Scholz takes on this critical task here. She lays the groundwork for a theory of political solidarity, asking what solidarity means and how it differs fundamentally from other social and political concepts like camaraderie, association, or community. Scholz distinguishes a variety of types and levels of solidarity by their social ontologies, moral relations, and corresponding obligations. Political solidarity, in contrast to social solidarity and civic solidarity, aims to bring about social change by uniting individuals in their response to particular situations of injustice, oppression, or tyranny.

The book explores the moral relation of political solidarity in detail, with chapters on the nature of the solidary group, obligations within solidarity, the “paradox of the privileged,” the goals of solidarity movements, and the prospects for global solidarity.

More from the publisher, including the Table of Contents

A new SEP entry on Race

Link

“A Small History of Photography” by Walter Benjamin

Small History of Photography.pdf

“The Author as Producer” by Walter Benjamin

The Author as Producer.pdf

Link

(via wood’s lot)

Zizek seems to be getting quite a few open letters these days.

The new issue of London Review of Books has a few letters about his take on the Tibet.

Link

The new issue of Bookforum is out and it includes an essay on Adorno by Richard Wolin

Link

A new SEP entry.