Derrida and Democracy
Jonathan Culler

Part One
“The Most Interesting Thing in the World”
Jonathan Culler

Passionate Secrets and Democratic Dissidence
David Wills

Signed Paine, or Panic in Literature
Peggy Kamuf

Pulsations of Respect, or Winged Impossibility: Literature with Deconstruction
Henry Sussman

Spectral Gatherings: Derrida, Celan, and the Covenant of the Word
Michael G. Levine

Part Two
For Better and for Worse (There Again . . .)
Geoffrey Bennington

Rogue Democracy
Samuel Weber

A Genealogy of Violence, from Light to the Autoimmune
Samir Haddad

Nondialectical Materialism
Pheng Cheah

Untread and Untried: Nietzsche Reads Derridemocracy
Avital Ronell

Knowledge of the Future: Future Fables
Richard Klein

Part Three
Is Radical Atheism a Good Name for Deconstruction?
Ernesto Laclau

Time, Desire, Politics: A Reply to Ernesto Laclau
Martin Hägglund

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 Political

Rosalind Galt – The Obviousness of Cinema

Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder – Cinema/Film

Christian Keathley – Otto Preminger and the Surface of Cinema

David Farrell Krell – The School for Stupefaction

Scott Krzych – Kino Ex Nihilo

Ernesto Laclau in conversation with Brian Price and Meghan Sutherland – Not a Ground but a Horizon

Sam Lipsyte – A Pimple on the Ass of Drew Barrymore Speaks

Karen Pinkus – Nothing from Nothing: Alchemy and the Economic Crisis

Angelo Restivo – The Obvious: Three Reminiscences

Stephen G. Rhodes – Interregnum Reanimated: The Living Cemetery

Jeffrey Sconce – Circuit City Unplugged

Chantal Mouffe’s political philosophy has been influential in a variety of domains, including sociology, cultural studies, media studies, law, art, literary criticism, and journalism studies. By combining Gramsci’s focus on hegemony with post-structuralist theory she has developed – in collaboration with Ernesto Laclau – a sophisticated perspective on the political that intersects with all aspects of society, including the role and functioning of journalism. Her emphasis on the productive role of hegemony and conflict in society combined with her plea for a radical pluralist democracy, open a wide range of new perspectives for journalism studies. We present an overview of Mouffe’s work set against a recent interview with her, in which we discuss, among other things, the potential diversity of contingent journalistic identities, ranging between being complicit with hegemonic socio-political projects, and safe-guarding or even deepening democratic institutions, including itself.

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

• “Paradoxes of Capitalism” (Martin Hartmann, Axel Honneth)
• “Resurrecting the Rationality” of Ideology Critique: Reflections on Laclau on Ideology” (Maeve Cooke)
• “From Critical Social Theory to a Social Theory of Critique: On the Critique of Ideology after the Pragmatic Turn” (Robin Celikates)

[As constellations go, so do important birthdays - happy birthday to C]