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Dabashi: Slavoj Zizek and Harum Scarum
In Gene Nelson’s “Harum Scarum” (1965), featuring Elvis Presley as the Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Tyronne, we meet the action movie star travelling through the Orient while promoting his new film,… Read more
SHAKESPEARE AND PHILOSOPHY
A Seminar with Simon Critchley | June 30- July 7, 2012 Whether tragical, comical, historical or lyrical, the vast human panorama of Shakespeare’s work raises many of the deepest and… Read more
Radical Atheism and “The Arche-Materiality of Time”
Radical Atheism and “The Arche-Materiality of Time”(Robert King interviewed Martin Hägglund. Dr. King focused his questions on the impact of Radical Atheism and the “archemateriality” of time). R.K.: Did the reception… Read more
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy: Vol 18, No 1 (2008–2010)
Vol 18, No 1 (2008–2010) Open-access Table of Contents Articles Julia Kristeva’s Maternal Passions Kelly Oliver Foucault’s Critique of the Science of Sexuality: The Function of Science within Bio-power Sokthan… Read more
New design
Sorry for the interruptions. As you can see, the site has been redesigned completely. This new approach allows for contents to stay on the front-page longer. It has taken more… Read more
Conference Announcement: Acting in Film
02 September 2010 11.30-21.00 Acting in Film: Concepts, Theories, Philosophies – An International Conference 03 September 2010 10.15-17.45 Acting in Film: Concepts, Theories, Philosophies – An International Conference 04 September… Read more
Site status
I am terribly sorry. Health issues kept me to minimal activity for the past few weeks. I’m trying to catch up with the backlog. Site is back now.
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i am sorry for the slowdown of the site. it should be back to a normal routine this week. please bear with me as i’m catching up with emails you… Read more
Simon Critchley, NYT: Coin of Praise
It is a peculiar fact that the severe economic turmoil of the past year has for the most part not led people to ask the most fundamental question about the… Read more
Alain Badiou: The Uses of the Word “Jew” http://www.lacan.com/essays/?page_id=276 For the last couple of decades, the intellectual situation in France has been marked by countless discussions about the status to… Read more
Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy
Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy — La Société canadienne de philosophie continentale Annual Conference / Congrès annuel October 15-17, 2009 King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario London,… Read more
Transformations : Issue No. 17 2009 — Bernard Stiegler and the Question of Technics
TRANSFORMATIONS Issue No. 17 2009 — Bernard Stiegler and the Question of Technics Transformation as an Ontological Imperative: The [Human] Future According to Bernard Stiegler Stephen Barker The Duck and… Read more
Chuck Grassley’s Debt and Deficit Dragon
At the end of a class today on Democracy, the students and I were discussing the value of fiction in understanding politics. One objection was that fictional characters are too… Read more
New SEP Entry: Plato’s Myths
What the ancient Greeks—at least in the archaic phase of their civilisation—called muthos was quite different from what we and the media nowadays call “myth”. For them a muthos was… Read more
Sofia University in Bulgaria offers doctoral scholarships
Sofia University in Bulgaria offers doctoral scholarships at the Graduate Program in Philosophy Taught in English Language; the program features a strong emphasis on Continental Philosophy. The scholarships carry a… Read more
The Third Annual TELOS Conference January 16, 2010 New York City Call for Papers: From Lifeworld to Biopolitics: Empire in the Age of Obama In the context of a dramatic… Read more
Site has gone mobile
I have finally set up the site in a way that it should be nicely viewed on mobile phones, such as the iphone and different browsers of smartphones. There is… Read more