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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

As most of you know, there has been an interesting exchange between Zizek and Critchley.

Zizek published a review of Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance. The review was reproduced this past february in Harpers. (Link to the review.)

Critchley has answered Zizek, in the May issue. Link to his answered, fortunately reproduced on the blogosphere.

Description of Rethinking Facticity, eds, Francois Raffoul and Eric Sean Nelson

The concept of facticity has undergone crucial transformations over the last century in hermeneutics and phenomenology, but it has not yet received the attention that it warrants. Following a suggestion by Merleau-Ponty that philosophy is not about essences but rather the facticity of existence, prominent philosophers examine the significance of facticity in its historical context and reflect on its contemporary relevance. Focusing on the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Lacan, and Fanon, among others, they trace its significance from life-philosophy to contemporary European thought and explore its philosophical implications. The following questions are addressed: What thoughts of experience, of subjectivity, of finitude, of nature, of the body, of racial and sexual difference does facticity provoke? What thinking of language, of history, of birth and death, of our ethical being-in-the-world does it mobilize? Exploring these questions, the contributors offer new interpretations of facticity.

See the publisher’s site for more details, such as the table of contents and the pdf of the introduction.

Sean Homer's Lectures.

youtube link 

Link

My good friend Alex has sent this interesting link.

Introduction: One More Effort… (i-vi)
Benjamin Noys

Articles

What is the Gift of Grace?: on Dogville (1-22)
Lorenzo Chiesa

The Politics of Gift-Giving and the Provocation of Lars Von Trier's Dogville (23-37)
Dany Nobus

Antiphusis: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (38-51)
Benjamin Noys

The Temporality of the Real: The Path to Politics in The Constant Gardener (52-73)
Todd McGowan

'How Very Lacanian': From Fantasy to Hyperreality in Basic Instinct 2 (74-85)
Mark Fisher

Josefina Ayerza
To resume again…
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX1.htm

Jacques-Alain Miller
A Reading from Jacques Lacan’s Seminar on From an Other to the other II
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX2.htm

Alain Badiou
Hegel, Kant, Lacan
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX3.htm

Massimo Recalcati
Triggering Determinants in Anorexia
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX4.htm

Simon Critchley
Confraternity of the Faithless: Wilde’s Christianity
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX5.htm

Richard Kostelanetz
A Fairly Orthodox Anarchist-Libertarian
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX6.htm

Jean-Luc Nancy
To the Exhausting Nude…
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX7.htm

Slavoj Zizek
From objet a to Subtraction
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX8.htm

Cathy Lebowitz interviews Josefina Ayerza
Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX9.htm

Cover Art: Adam Helms
http://www.lacan.com/grancover30.htm

New on lacan dot com

Slavoj Zizek
On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
http://www.lacan.com/zizbadman.htm

Slavoj Zizek
From Che vuoi? to Fantasy: Lacan with Eyes Wide Shut
http://www.lacan.com/zizkubrick.htm

Slavoj Zizek
Stalinism
http://www.lacan.com/zizstalin.htm

Blackwell is granting temporary free access to some of its journal articles. Two articles from Critical Quarterly and one from the Yale Review may be of interest:

JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ: Aspace of Dumbillsilly: when Joyce translates Lacan

ANDREW BRIGHTON: Consumed by the political: the ruination of the Arts Council

MARTIN GREENBERG: Concerning Hannah Arendt. She knew she was right

From Alex D, a terrific site:

http://www.discoursenotebook.com

There are public lectures by Badiou, Kristeva, Mouffe, Critchley, Zizek, etc.