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Jonathan Rée – Dissing God | New Humanist
The Book of Genesis is a bedtime soporific, not a page-turner. God, says Jonathan Rée, is the death of narrative, and narrative the death of God…
Jonathan Judaken: Interview with Annie Cohen-Solal
Host Jonathan Judaken talks to renowned Satre scholar Annie Cohen-Solal, author of a number of books and essays on Satre, including the international best-selling biography, Jean-Paul Satre: A Life. Annie Cohen-Solal… Read more
Alan A. Stone: Imagining Faith
The Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick In the movie, one sees, roughly, a family, the O’Briens, dealing with the death of one of their own. Then, nothing less… Read more
The Stone: Freud as Philosopher
Sigmund Freud, that seer of the psyche, taught that you could be angry and not know it. You can also be a philosopher and not know it. And Freud was… Read more
“I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth “
Ray Brassier interviewed by Marcin Rychter I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth KRONOS: Nihilism is one of the most ambiguous philosophical concepts. What is your idea… Read more
Audio: Philosophers Zone: The Sound of Music
What do we mean when we say that the hills are alive to the sound of music? Isn’t the point not that music has sound but that it is… Read more
Audio: Robert Solomon – From Existentialism to Postmodernism (1 of 3)
via YouTube – From Existentialism to Postmodernism (1 of 3).
Terry Eagleton · Indomitable
How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011 by Eric Hobsbawm In 1976, a good many people in the West thought that Marxism had a reasonable case to… Read more
Steven Shaviro über Filmkritik
1. How do you consider your role as film critic? In the first place, I consider my role as a film critic — and also as a Professor of Film… Read more
Edouard Glissant (1928-2011)
In this interview, our guest is poet Edouard Glissant. He speaks up against globalisation and talks about creolisation. He aslo comments on Barack Obama’s vision of the world and the… Read more
Reclaim the common in communism | Michael Hardt
The financial crisis that exploded in autumn 2008 has rearranged the dominant views of capitalism and socialism. Until recently, any critique of neoliberal strategies of deregulation, privatisation and the reduction… Read more
The relevance of critical theory to art today
The relevance of critical theory to art today J.M. Bernstein, Lydia Goehr, Gregg Horowitz, and Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 31 | January 2011 On Saturday, November 20, 2010, Platypus hosted… Read more
On the state of criticism in 2011
I call that other kind of criticism, the kind that doesn’t rely on authority and judgment, Romantic criticism. I call it that because of what I learned, long ago, from that melancholic and suicidal German, Walter Benjamin.
Book review: Fabbri, The Domestication of Derrida
Review of: Lorenzo Fabbri, The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction. Trans. Daniele Manni, London: Continuum, 2008 To choose security is to choose death. That such a lesson comes at… Read more
Glendinning
A Life Worth Living: Part II Simon Glendinning In the first part of this discussion about the meaning of life I suggested that the recent absence of reflection on this… Read more
Book Review – The Second Sex – By Simone de Beauvoir – NYTimes.com
NY Times has an article on the new translation of the Second Sex, and some gems about the previous one: In her splendid introduction to this new edition, Judith Thurman… Read more
New Book: Cixous , White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics
New book from Columbia University Press: Cixous , White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics These interviews with Helene Cixous offer invaluable insight into her philosophy and criticism. Culled… Read more
Markus Gabriel Talk | Friday May 14th 12-2pm at the New School
The New York German Idealism Workshop and the New School Psychoanalytic Theory Workshop present: Markus Gabriel, Bonn University “Predication and Repression: The Unconscious of Philosophy” Date: Friday, May 14th Location:… Read more