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More on Derrida and the UC
I have been quite busy and have not had time to post much over the past few days. Chris S keeps up the good work and has this new tip:… Read more
UC Irvine drops suit over Derrida’s personal papers
In continuation from the previous story on Derrida: The University of California, Irvine, has dropped a lawsuit against the family of world-renowned French philosopher and professor Jacques Derrida after an… Read more
UC vs. the Derridas
The University of California has sued the family of Jacques Derrida, a pioneer in contemporary philosophy and literary theory who died in 2004. The lawsuit is the first public eruption… Read more
Interview: Lacoue-Labarthe on Hölderlin (in French)
Détours: Je dois d’abord vous demander pourquoi L’Absolu littéraire et pourquoi vous avez senti le besoin d’écrire ce livre à la fin des années ’70 ? Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: La fin… Read more
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007)
This yet another sad loss for Continental Philosophy. This is the obit from Le Monde: Le philosophe Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe est mort dans la nuit du 27 au 28 janvier, à… Read more
Zizek’s NYT Op-ed: Denying the Facts, Finding the Truth
ONE of the pop heroes of the Iraq war was undoubtedly Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, the unfortunate Iraqi information minister who, in his daily press conferences during the invasion, heroically denied… Read more
Zizek on 9/11
Published in Guardian (via Jodi Dean): The omnipresent invisible threat of terror legitimises the all-too-visible protective measures of defence. The difference of the war on terror from previous 20th-century struggles,… Read more
Balibar on Mid-East
Etienne Balibar (along with Jean-Mar Levy-Leblond) published an oped in Le Monde (Aug 18) about war and peace in the Middle-East. It is quite interesting but unfortunately no one seems… Read more