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SHAKESPEARE AND PHILOSOPHY

SHAKESPEARE AND PHILOSOPHY

A Seminar with Simon Critchley | June 30- July 7, 2012Whether tragical, comical, historical or lyrical, the vast human panorama of Shakespeare’s work raises many of the deepest and most… Read more »

Simon Critchley interview — Style in Theory

Simon Critchley interview — Style in Theory

James Corby (University of Malta) interviews Simon Critchley (New School) by video link during the Style in Theory / Styling Theory conference in Malta in November 2009.

Occupy first. Demands come later: Slavoj Žižek, The Guardian

Occupy first. Demands come later: Slavoj Žižek, The Guardian

What to do after the occupations of Wall Street and beyond – the protests that started far away, reached the centre and are now, reinforced, rolling back around the world?… Read more »

Only Communism can save liberal democracy (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Only Communism can save liberal democracy (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

By Slavoj Zizek, October 2011: 1989 marked not only the defeat of the Communist State-Socialism, but also the defeat of the Western Social Democracy. Nowhere is the misery of today’s… Read more »

Between Baudrillard and the Cave: Alfredo Jaar and Simon Critchley in Conversation

Between Baudrillard and the Cave: Alfredo Jaar and Simon Critchley in Conversation

Developing their earlier discussion of news media’s screening of global events, artist Alfredo Jaar and philosopher Simon Critchley consider how images can conceal, expose or recreate the reality we inhabit…. Read more »

Hélène Cixous at the NYS Writers Institute in 2007

Hélène Cixous at the NYS Writers Institute in 2007

Audio: Simon Critchley on Critical Theory Today (1 of 2)

Audio: Simon Critchley on Critical Theory Today (1 of 2)

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Badiou: “Tunisie, Egypte : quand un vent d’est balaie l’arrogance de l’Occident”

Badiou: “Tunisie, Egypte : quand un vent d’est balaie l’arrogance de l’Occident”

Read an English translation of Alain Badiou’s recent article for Le Monde. Translation kindly provided by Cristiana Petru-Stefanescu. The Eastern wind is getting the better of the Western one. How… Read more »

LRB · Judith Butler · Who Owns Kafka?

LRB · Judith Butler · Who Owns Kafka?

  An ongoing trial in Tel Aviv is set to determine who will have stewardship of several boxes of Kafka’s original writings, including primary drafts of his published works, currently… Read more »

Negri: Lettera ad un amico tunisino

Negri: Lettera ad un amico tunisino

Lettera ad un amico tunisino di TONI NEGRI via Lettera ad un amico tunisino : UniNomade 2.0. French Version

New APPS Interview: Timothy Morton – New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science

New APPS Interview: Timothy Morton – New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science

New APPS Interview: Timothy Morton Today’s New APPS Interview is with Timothy Morton, Professor of English at University of California, Davis. John Protevi: Hello, Tim, thanks for joining us today…. Read more »

Audio – Jacques Ranciere: The Importance of Critical Theory for Social Movements Today

Audio – Jacques Ranciere: The Importance of Critical Theory for Social Movements Today

YouTube – via YouTube – Jacques Ranciere: The Importance of Critical Theory for Social Movements Today.

Cyberwar, God And Television: Interview with Paul Virilio

Cyberwar, God And Television: Interview with Paul Virilio

Louise Wilson: First of all, I’d like to say that I approach your work as a visual artist. Paul Virilio: But, I always write with images. I cannot write a… Read more »

Speculative Realism book series « Object-Oriented Philosophy

Speculative Realism book series « Object-Oriented Philosophy

I’m pleased to announce that Edinburgh University Press is launching a book series in speculative realism (my own book on Meillassoux will be the first in the series). We invite… Read more »

Zizek Of Apes and Men: Lenin’s Enlightenment

Zizek Of Apes and Men: Lenin’s Enlightenment

Lenin’s legacy to be reinvented today is the politics of truth. We live in the “postmodern” era in which truth-claims as such are dismissed as an expression of hidden power-mechanisms… Read more »

Guattari & Negri, New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty

Guattari & Negri, New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty

LRB · Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks

LRB · Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks

Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks Slavoj Žižek In one of the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks Putin and Medvedev are compared to Batman and Robin. It’s a useful… Read more »

Urbanomic: Speculative Solution, a conversation with Meillassoux

Urbanomic: Speculative Solution, a conversation with Meillassoux

We are pleased to announce that the Urbanomic-commissioned Florian Hecker piece SPECULATIVE SOLUTION will be released by EDITIONS MEGO as eMEGO 118, planned release date 04.04.2011. This special CD release… Read more »

ON THE TRAGIC AND ITS LIMITS  – THE TILBURG PHILOSOPHY SUMMER SCHOOL July 2011

ON THE TRAGIC AND ITS LIMITS – THE TILBURG PHILOSOPHY SUMMER SCHOOL July 2011

A Seminar with Simon Critchley | July 12-21, 2011 Is the tragic an adequate category for thinking about the nature of contemporary conflicts, and their cycles of revenge, violence and… Read more »

Men With Balls: The Art of the 2010 World Cup

Men With Balls: The Art of the 2010 World Cup

Men With Balls: The Art of the 2010 World Cup Curated by Simon Critchley June 10 – July 11, 2010 Opening reception: June 10, 6-8pm LIVE screening of matches at… Read more »