Yearly Archives: 2009
CFP: 5th International Philosophy Colloquium Evian Conditions of Freedom
15th International Philosophy Colloquium Evian Conditions of Freedom Evian (Lake Geneva), France — July 12-18, 2009 Contact: Prof. Dr. Georg W. Bertram Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Habelschwerdter Allee… Read more
Jobs: Canada Research Chair in Environment and Culture
Canada Research Chair in Environment and Culture The Department of Philosophy at Laurentian University invites applications for the position of a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Environment and Culture… Read more
Call for Papers for: Cambridge University’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference ’09
How does your research meet future challenges? How can research challenge the social, political and scientific status quo? How does interdisciplinary communication advance knowledge? What constitutes ‘progress’ in your field?… Read more
CFP: Theory Reading Group at Cornell University
The Theory Reading Group at Cornell University invites submissions for its fifth annual interdisciplinary spring conference: “Particularity, Exemplarity, Singularity” Featuring keynote speaker Ian Balfour (York University) Cornell University Ithaca, New… Read more
KRITIKE VOl.2 No.2
1. Editorial: In this Issue of KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy – The Editor Featured Essay: 2. To Build or to Destroy? The Philippine Experience with Walls and a… Read more
4 texts by Leland de la Durantaye on Agamben
“Agamben’s Potential.” Diacritics. 30.2 (2000). 3-28 “The Suspended Substantive. On Animals and Men in Giorgio Agamben’s The Open.” Diacritics 33.2 (2005) 3-9. “The Exceptional Life of the State: Giorgio Agamben’s… Read more
Marx: the quest, the path, the destination
Alexander Kluge’s nine-and-a-half hour long film of Marx’s “Kapital” is not a minute too long says Helmut Merker What is a revolutionary? The writings of Marx and Engels both use… Read more
Critchley on Oscar Wilde
Wilde’s extraordinary panegyric to Christ culminates in what he calls Christ’s ‘dangerous idea’. This turns upon the treatment of a sinner like Wilde himself. Christ does not condemn the sinner… Read more
CFP: Freud After Derrida
Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature announces A CALL FOR PAPERS FREUD AFTER DERRIDA: AN INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE October 6-9, 2010 The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada… Read more
World Pictures Journal: Volume 2
Link to articles Derek Attridge and Henry Staten – Reading for the Obvious: A Conversation Scott Durham – “The Center of the World Everywhere”: Bamako and the Scene of the… Read more
Second Workshop in Social and Political Thought at Michigan State University
POWER, CONFLICT, AND COMMITMENT: RETHINKING THE POLITICAL Second Workshop in Social and Political Thought at Michigan State University March, 28/29, Saturday: 9am-6pm, Sunday: 9:30am-12:30pm http://www.msu.edu/~lotz/workshop2009/index.htm Description: During recent decades philosophers… Read more
Book Review: Derrida and Legal Philosophy
A review of Derrida and Legal Philosophy This book brings together fifteen essays on Jacques Derrida’s approach to justice, law, and politics. It succeeds in demonstrating that Derrida, who died… Read more
Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou on Samuel Beckett
Slavoj Zizek Beckett with Lacan – part 1 http://www.lacan.com/article/?page_id=78 The achievement of Joyce simultaneously signals his limit, the limit which pushed Beckett to break with him. If there ever was… Read more
Book Review: Shaw, Nietzsche’s Political Skepticism
A review by Brian Leiter: Nietzsche’s Political Skepticism (hereafter NPS) is a serious, learned, and novel contribution to the literature on Nietzsche’s relevance to political theory. Against the two dominant… Read more
Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy
The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is pleased to announce its program for the 2009 Summer School. Location: 1888 Building, University of Melbourne. Enrol at http://www.mscp.org.au Week 1 January 26… Read more