Posted by Farhang Erfani on 8th July 2008
Richard Clarke’s Philosophy’s Other, which I know and highly recommend.
Paul E. has set up his own Heidegger blog, appropriately named: Another Heidegger Blog!
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on 12th June 2008
From Jodi Dean
When is a Truth not a Truth?
When it has to be excessively enforced.
This is how Zizek responds to Stavrakakis’s siding with Badiou on the matter of totalitarian danger.
Badiou warns of the totalitarian danger of enforcing a truth on a situation and ignoring the nameless or multiplicity of reality that resists subsumption under a truth-procedure. Zizek criticizes Badiou on this point on the grounds of an incompatibility between truth and excessive enforcement. He writes:
a Truth is never enforced, because the moment the fidelity to Truth functions as an excessive enforcement, we are no longer dealing with a Truth, with fidelity to a Truth-event.
This doesn’t strike me as convincing, particularly insofar as Truth is determined retroactively. For this determination to be made, ruthless enforcement may well be necessary. Perhaps the better way to put this is to say that ‘excessive’ has a termporal characteristic. What may seem excessive at one point is later determined to have been just right, even measured as a response. The indeterminacy here is unavoidable.
Zizek’s example of Stalinism is particularly problematic. He says that the truth that was not a truth that Stalinism enforced was the vision of a centralized planned economy. This is a problem for a number of reasons.
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on 30th May 2008
Richard Crary has been reading Blanchot’s The Space of Literature and is sharing his thoughts.
Link to his blog: The Existence Machine
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on 26th April 2008
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on 26th February 2008
John Protevi has a new blog (John McCumber and Robin Durie are also contributors).
“Meta-Philosophy: Reflections on the Practices and Institutions of Philosophy.”
As John explains: “As the title indicates, we’d like to provide a forum for discussion of issues relative to philosophy in the world and in the university.”
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on 16th September 2007
An entire blog dedicated to Jacques Ranciere!
Link
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on 3rd September 2007
An exciting announcement from John Protevi:
I’ve begun two new group blogs, inviting friends to collaborate. I won’t be in charge in any sense; I’m just handling the administration as it were. The new blogs are:
1. 4EA Cognition. The “4EA” in the title stands for “Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, Extended, and Affective” Cognition. It’s a purposefully long list of attributes that signals our desire to explore ways of thinking about cognition that depart from standard cognitivist models.
2. Outside Philosophy. Although I’m a philosopher, I work in a French Studies department. There are quite a few people like me, who, for one reason or another, are philosophers who don’t work in philosophy departments. I thought this group blog would be a good forum for us.
I hope you’ll visit and spread the word!
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