Glossator 7: Black Metal Commentary

Volume editors: Nicola Masciandaro and Reza Negarestani

Call for Proposals

And thereafter I saw the darkness changing into a watery substance, which was unspeakably tossed about, and gave forth smoke as from fire; and I heard it making an indescribable sound of lamentation.—Corpus Hermeticum

L’OBJET DE L’EXTASE EST L’ABSENCE DE RÉPONSE DU DEHORS. L’INEXPLICABLE PRÉSENCE DE L’HOMME EST LA RÉPONSE QUE LA VOLONTÉ SE DONNE, SUSPENDUE SUR LE VIDE D’UNE ININTELLIGIBLE NUIT. [THE OBJECT OF ECSTASY IS THE ABSENCE OF RESPONSE FROM THE OUTSIDE. THE INEXPLICABLE PRESENCE OF MAN IS THE RESPONSE THAT THE WILL GIVES ITSELF, SUSPENDED OVER THE VOID OF AN UNINTELLIGIBLE NIGHT.]—George Bataille

The burning corpse of god shall keep us warm in the doom of howling winds

For we are a race from beyond the wanderers of night.—Xasthur

The editors of Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary (http://glossator.org) seek proposals for a themed issue on Black Metal, to be published in the fall of 2012. In keeping with the journal’s focus and scope, contributions may take the following forms, with strict priority given to the former: 1) original commentaries on music, lyrics, images, or events within the Black Metal genre; 2) articles or essays investigating relationships between Black Metal and commentary. The editors have a special desire for dense, rich, copious commentaries, as the generous publication time frame permits. Collaboration is also encouraged. “Commentary” should be understood in its traditional senses (catena, commentum, gemara, glossa, hypomnema, midrash, peser, pingdian, scholia, tafsir, talkhis, tika, vritti, zend, zhangju, et al.) and in light of the following guidelines: Read the rest of this entry »

The interdisciplinary journal SARTRE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL is seeking
submissions for consideration for its next edition.

Papers on any aspect of Sartre’s work, or on closely related topics,
should be sent by 31 January 2009 to:

Dr David Drake
73 Chester Rd
London
N19 5DH

email: david.drake73@googlemail.com

Note: this is a change of editorial contact details.

Jacques Rancière is the Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Paris VIII where he taught from 1969 to 2000. He continues to teach, as a visiting professor, in a number of Universities, including Rutgers, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Berkeley. His work has been translated into 14 languages, and has been subject to numerous special issues, symposia and critical commentaries. His latest titles to appear in English translation are Disagreement, Politics, and Philosophy (1998), Short Voyages to the Land of the People (2003), The Philosopher and his Poor (2004), The Flesh of Words (2004), The Politics of Aesthetics (2005), Film Fables (2006), and The Hatred of Democracy (2007).

The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking Introduction 1

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International Association for Philosophy and Literature 2009

BRUNEL UNIVERSITY, WEST LONDON, ENGLAND, 1-7 JUNE 2009

DOUBLE | EDGES

RHETORICS-RHIZOMES-REGIONS

Submission information can be found at http://www.iapl.info/Call-for-Papers09.htm

It’s my pleasure to post about my friend Andrea Hurst’s book,Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

From the publisher’s site:

Derrida and Lacan have long been viewed as proponents of two opposing schools of thought. This book argues, however, that the logical structure underpinning Lacanian psychoanalytic theory is a complex, paradoxical relationality that corresponds to Derrida’s “plural logic of the aporia.”

Andrea Hurst begins by linking this logic to a strand of thinking (in which Freud plays a part) that unsettles philosophy’s transcendental tradition. She then shows that Derrida is just as serious and careful a reader of Freud’s texts as Lacan. Interweaving the two thinkers, she argues that the Lacanian Real is another name for Derrida’s différance and shows how Derrida’s writings on Heidegger and Nietzsche embody an attitude toward sexual difference and feminine sexuality that matches Lacanian insights.

Attempting to heal a long-standing divide between Derrideans and Lacanians, she brings out a deep theoretical accord between thinkers who both recognize the power of psychoanalysis to address contemporary political and ethical issues.

Recommended by Joan Copjec:

“Hurst brokers the relationship between Derrida and Lacan with great delicacy. Through patient, sympathetic, and often eye-opening readings of both, she maintains the separateness of these titans of French thought even as she draws them convincingly close together.”

Brian Leiter has posted his essay “The Epistemic Status of the Human Sciences: Critical Reflections on Foucault” — Link

From La vie des idees, “Foucault: Truth in Action”

The Department for American Studies at the University of Cologne is pleased to announce that it will be holding The Second International Deleuze Studies Conference on Aug 10-12 2009:

CONNECTdeleuze:TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

The Conference aims at building transdisciplinary assemblages that involve Deleuze in a wider range of thought, i.e. at constructing, from different
‘modules of thought,’ innovative conceptual arrangements that integrate Deleuzian philosophy into the larger field of contemporary knowledge production and practices of living.

Speakers include:
Brian Massumi [Université de Montréal]
Hanjo Berressem [Universität zu Köln]
Ian Buchanan [Cardiff University]
Paul Harris [Loyola Marymount University]
Eugene Holland [Ohio State University]
Gregg Lambert [Syracuse University]
Patricia Pisters [Universiteit van Amsterdam]
Mirjam Schaub [Freie Universität Berlin]
Janell Watson [Virginia Tech]
James Williams [University of Dundee]

If you are interested in presenting at this conference, submit panel proposals and|or individual abstracts [250 words] to

CONNECTdeleuze_at_web.de

DEADLINE: Apr 30, 2009 (please include your affiliation and short bio)

Further details can be found at
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/abteilungen/berressem/deleuze2009/

Lefort, C. (1986). The political forms of modern society: beureaucracy, democracy, totalitarianism.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ltt04mzdyzj

h/t: aadkenn

Perspectives on Heidegger

MATHESON RUSSELL: Phenomenological Reductionin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit: A New Proposal

KRZYSZTOF ZIAREK: The Return to Philosophy? Or:Heidegger and the Task of Thinking

JANET DONOHOE: The Place of Tradition: Heidegger and Benjamin on Technology and Art

LIN MA: The Mysterious Relations to the East

TANJA STAEHLER: Unambiguous Calling? Authenticity and Ethics in Heidegger’s Being and Time

PATRICK O’CONNOR: There is no World Without End (Salut):Derrida’s Phenomenology of the Extra-Mundane

Josefina Ayerza
To resume again…
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII1.html

Jacques-Alain Miller
A Reading of the Seminar From an Other to the other IV
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII2.html

Jacques-Alain Miller
The Other Side of Lacan
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII3.html

Alain Badiou
The Son’s Aleatory Identity in Today’s World
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII4.html

Lilia Mahjoub
The Image in the Fantasy
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII5.html

Massimo Recalcati
Madness and Structure in Jacques Lacan
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII6.html

Jean-Luc Nancy
Strange Foreign Bodies
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII7.html

Slavoj Zizek
Why Lacan Is Not a Heideggerian
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII8.html

Josefina Ayerza
Cecily Brown, Doug Aitken
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII9.html