Dear Farhang,
What a great site! You’ve done a marvellous job and I’m sure many people will want to check it out. I’m a lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney, and would be happy to publicise your site on lists over here in Australia. I also wanted to let you know that we have a society for Continental Philosophy (the ASCP or Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy) that has been running for a few years and that has just had a successful conference in Geelong near Melbourne. The url is: http://www.ascp.org.au
This year we had Robert Pippin and Agnes Heller over from the US as keynote speakers. Last year we had Wendy Brown and Judith Butler, the year before at Macquarie University we had J.M. Bernstein and Colin Gordon. This is a growing and evolving organisation, so we’d love to link up and talk with with other groups and interested people across the globe. Keep up the good work!
All the best,
Robert
The site looks great–part blog, part bulletin board.
I wanted to let you know that we have placed you in the links database on our own webstie, TheoPhenomenon. We also have a small feature on American University’s philosophy program.
Dear Farhang,
Thought you might be interested in the latest issue of Social Semiotics, Volume 16, No. 3, September 2006, a special issue on “The Political Futures of Jacques Derrida”:
Amazingly, there’s a video of Nietzsche on Google Video and YouTube. Apparently the sequence is from May 1899 at Naumbach. The photographer/cinematographer is Hans Olde whose paintings of Nietzsche are well known….
Would it be possible to post a notice about our journal ‘Collapse’? Thanks.
The second volume of ‘Collapse’ resumes the construction of a conceptual space unbounded by any disciplinary constraints, comprising subjects from probability theory to theology, from quantum theory to neuroscience, from astrophysics to necrology, and involving them in unforeseen and productive syntheses.
‘Collapse Volume II’ features a selection of speculative essays by some of the foremost young philosophers at work today, together with new work from artists and cinéastes, and searching interviews with leading scientists. Against the tide of institutional balkanisation and specialisation, this volume testifies to a defiant reanimation of the most radical philosophical problematics - the status of the scientific object, metaphysics and its ‘end’, the prospects for a revival of speculative realism, the possibility of phenomenology, transcendence and the divine, the nature of causation, the necessity of contingency - both through a fresh reappropriation of the philosophical tradition and through an openness to its outside. The breadth of philosophical thought in this volume is matched by the surprising and revealing thematic connections that emerge between the philosophers and scientists who have contributed.
- Ray Brassier (Middlesex University, author of the forthcoming ‘Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction’) gives the first full-length exposition and critical examination in English of Quentin Meillassoux’s important book ‘Apres la Finitude’, which mounts a radical critique of post-Kantian philosophy on the basis of its inability to account for the literal meaning of scientific statements concerning ‘arche-fossils’ existing anterior to the possibility of their phenomenal manifestation.
- Building upon his thesis in ‘Apres la Finitude’, Quentin Meillassoux (ENS, Paris) proposes a reprisal of Hume’s problem of causation from a radical ontological persective. By affirming the absolute contingency of natural laws, Meillassoux argues for a revival of a realistic metaphysics which he calls ‘speculative materialism’ and brings to light a powerful new ontological concept of time.
- In an extended interview, Roberto Trotta (theoretical cosmologist, Lockyer Research Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society at the Astrophysics Department at Oxford University) describes in detail his work as a scientist engaged in surveying the ‘arche-fossil’, and discusses the ways in which the cross-disciplinary nature of the search for dark matter — an intense collaborative endeavour involving mathematics, astrophysics, theoretical modelling and statistics — anticipates the problematic status of its objects. The interview reveals how the process of determination of this field of research on the ‘outer edge’ of science, bounded equally by technological, probabilistic and logical constraints, raises questions as to the status of scientific thought and problematises its very conceptual foundations, thus emphasising its continuities with traditionally ‘philosophical’ concerns.
- In ‘On Vicarious Causation’ Graham Harman (American University in Cairo; author of ‘Tool-Being’ and ‘Guerilla Metaphysics’) puts forward a new realist ‘object-oriented’ metaphysics which, refusing the primacy of human experience and in defiance of post-Kantian ‘philosophies of access’, seeks to speak for the abyssal depths of ‘the objects themselves’.
- In an interview with Paul Churchland (U.Cal, San Diego) the brilliantly iconoclastic philosopher of mind and science reiterates his commitment to eliminative materialism, exploring its broad consequences for science and philosophy, and remarking key research outcomes and philosophical problems which have influenced its development.
- Clémentine Duzer & Laura Gozlan present a series of stills taken from their film Nevertheless Empire, an expressionist science-fiction noir of pestilence, biopolitics and desire.
- Artist Kristen Alvanson’s photo/diagrammatic essay on the ontotheology of the Middle-Eastern graveyard examines what differences in burial practices propose as to the philosophical thinking of space and of dwelling and examines the consequences for our image of thought.
- In a continuation of his unrivalled radical questioning of the ultimate bases of the ‘clash of civilisations’, Reza Negarestani details, through a searching analysis of Islamic and Western theologies, how the absolute exteriority of Allah in Islam results in a particular conception of temporality, different vectors for the propogation of faith, and an immanent apocalypse which cannot be reduced to a chronological moment or a possibility of unification.
The introductions to volumes I and II can be downloaded on the website as PDFs.
COLLAPSE Volume II
Edited by Robin Mackay
March 2007.
Paperback 115×175mm 330pp
Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies.
ISBN 0-9553087-1-2
RAY BRASSIER
The Enigma of Realism
QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX
Potentiality and Virtuality
ROBERTO TROTTA
Dark Matter: Facing the Arche-Fossil (Interview)
GRAHAM HARMAN
On Vicarious Causation
PAUL CHURCHLAND
Demons Get Out! (Interview)
CLÉMENTINE DUZER & LAURA GOZLAN
Nevertheless Empire
REZA NEGARESTANI
Islamic Exotericism: Apocalypse in the Wake of Refractory Impossibility
KRISTEN ALVANSON
Elysian Space in the Middle East
Still Available: Collapse Volume I ‘Numerical Materialism’

COLLAPSE VOLUME I
ALAIN BADIOU
‘Philosophy, Sciences, Mathematics’ (Interview)
GREGORY CHAITIN
‘Epistemology as Information Theory’
REZA NEGARESTANI
‘The Militarization of Peace’
MATTHEW WATKINS
‘Prime Evolution(Interview)’
‘INCOGNITUM’
‘Introduction to ABJAD’
NICK BOSTROM
‘Existential Risk (Interview)
THOMAS DUZER
‘On the Mathematics of Intensity’
KEITH TILFORD
‘Crowds’
NICK LAND
‘Qabbala 101′
finally, the history of madness has been published in full: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=8904 thought a number of readers might be interested - thanks
I’d love to subscribe to your blog’s feed (since I’m so RSS-dependent that otherwise I wouldn’t remember to check it), but the RSS link on the main page leads to an error page.
I just checked the blog feed and it seems to work. Did you use this : http://www.continental-philosophy.org/feed/ ? Please let me know if it is not working and thank you so much for your interest.
The site it’s amazing. I’m a web responsable of Applied ethics Department at Ramon Llull University.
I wanted to let you know if it’s possible make a link in your database: Catedra Ethos (http://ethos.url.edu). All of our contains are in catalan (laguage of Catalonia, small part of Spain), but I think that this qüestion is not important, we are various links in english language, your page obviously too.
And nothing, thank you very much, and excuse my english.
Would it be possible to feature a couple of philosophy events we’re holding at Greenwich University?
The details are as follows:
1. Colloquium
Dr Mick Bowles (Greenwich)
‘Understanding: Kant, Spinoza, Deleuze’
Thurs 7th June 2007
Greenwich University
Room KW003, King William Court, Old Royal Naval College
7-9pm
Entrance is free but please e-mail volcaniclines@hotmail.com if you plan to
attend.
2. ‘The Strange Encounter of Kant and Deleuze’ Conference
Saturday July 7th, Greenwich University, Maritime Campus, Old Royal Naval College, London: 10am - 5pm
This conference aims to explore and dramatise the conceptual relations that exist between Gilles Deleuze and Immanuel Kant. Deleuze offers us a ‘transcendental empiricism’ in direct contrast to Kant’s ‘transcendental idealism’ and the combination of their common ground and their stark oppositions makes this a particularly fertile realm of thought. There has been a growing recognition of the importance of the connections between
Deleuze and Kant and this conference aims for the first time to place these relations centre stage. We are strongly encouraging both Deleuzian and Kantian scholars to come together in a constructive encounter that has critical importance for the wider philosophical community.
Keynote Session
Dr Paul Davies (Sussex University) and Dr Daniel W. Smith (Purdue
University)
Registration
There is no registration fee for the conference. To register simply e-mail volcaniclines@hotmail.com in order to give us an idea of the numbers.
Volcanic Lines Deleuzian Research Group - an initiative of the Greenwich University Philosophy Department.
You have a really intersting site, which I found when looking for information on Zizek. I went to see him talk on Sunday night in London. I’d like to get a copy of the talk as it was hard keeping up with him!
While I like your site very much, I do not see anything on postcolonial theory, which I expected it to be in one of your subfields. Do you think it is not theory/philosophy?
Don’t know if you’ve come across this, but here is a website full of audio lectures on various philosophical and political themes all in real audio format, including Allen Wood on Hegel (http://www.philosophytalk.org/pastShows/Hegel.html), a lecture on existentialism (http://www.philosophytalk.org/pastShows/Existentialism.html) and other misc. topics: http://www.philosophytalk.org/notesPastShows.htm
Any idea where The Zizek video on Spectatorship and Neutrality might’ve moved? Is it in text anywhere? I’m working on a paper on Ranciere, spectatorship, and neutrality and I believe it might be fruitful to hear Zizek’s take.
A phenomenology of tragedy: illness and body betrayal in The Fly
Havi Carel
Grief’s Testimony: On Almodóvar’s All About My Mother
Fiona Jenkins
A Play of Memory: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil
Catherine Summerhayes
Grace and Violence: Questioning Politics and Desire in Lars von Trier’s Dogville
Robert Sinnerbrink
Even Better than the Real Thing: Sadism and Real(ity) T.V.
Matthew Sharpe
Thinking cinema(tically) and the Industrial Temporal Object: Schemes and technics of experience in Bernard Stiegler’s Technics and Time series
Patrick Crogan
The cinematic condition of the politico-philosophical future
Daniel Ross
Youtube Videolectures by Badiou, Baudrillard, Butler, Delanda, Derrida, Zizek
Sorry for crossposting. Complete lectures from Judith Butler,
Peter Greenaway, Slavoj Zizek, John Waters, Geert Lovink, Friedrich
Kittler, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, DJ Spooky, Giorgio Agamben, Manuel Delanda, Jean Luc Nancy, Michael Hardt and others have been uploaded to Youtube by the European Graduate School - http://www.egs.edu/
The school claims that they will upload more and more lectures from the last 10 years. The current list of complete videolectures can be found at the Youtube channel of the European Graduate School.
A subscription will automatically informed you about
new video lectures and presentations.
Playlists, a rather unknown feature of Youtube, basically connect
individual videoclips and allow the upload of videoclips longer than
10 minutes.
The school is basically implementing an open lecture program, part of an European answer to the limited open courseware program by MIT. Please enjoy and thank you.
Kojin Karatani’s visit to stanford was recorded and is up on the website here (along with the pdf version of the introduction to Transcritique, which is actually much more cogent and lucid than the actual lectures): http://www.stanford.edu/dept/asianlang/events/karatani/
I don’t have a link, but if you could somehow direct people to itunes to download the CBC Radio Best of Ideas podcast- to listen to ‘The God Who May Be’, a three part dialogue with philosopher Richard Kearney of Boston College-that would be excellent.
After a year of hibernation, the Agamben-inspired blog “form of life” returns as “notes for the coming community” (consider it as the second coming) with a piece called “Discipline and Publish: Disputation of Academia”
A great pdf library - it is from a Penn English prof’s website so a lot of texts are either lit or deal with Anglo-American lit, but includes texts by Derrida, Foucault, Bataille and some others.
Dear Farhang,
Great to see the bulletin board up and running again for 2008! I thought you might be interested in this special double issue of Cosmos and History, “The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking” celebrating 100 years since the publication of the Phenomenology of Spirit.
The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking
Table of Contents
No. 2
The Spirit of The Age and the Fate of Philosophical Thinking Abstract PDF
Paul Ashton, Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos 1-4
Would Hegel Be A ‘Hegelian’ Today? Abstract PDF
H. S. Harris 5-15
Hegel, Idealism and God: Philosophy as the Self-Correcting Appropriation of the Norms of Life and Thought Abstract PDF
Paul Redding 16-31
Hegel, Derrida and the Subject Abstract PDF
Simon Lumsden 32-50
Hegel’s Science of Logic and the “Sociality of Reason” Abstract PDF
Jorge Armando Reyes 51-83
The Ego as World: Speculative Justification and the Role of the Thinker in Hegel’s Philosophy Abstract PDF
Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos 84-116
Hegel Today: Towards a Tragic Conception of Intercultural Conflicts Abstract PDF
Karin G de Boer 117-131
Sein und Geist: Heidegger’s Confrontation with Hegel’s Phenomenology Abstract PDF
Robert Sixto Sinnerbrink 132-152
Hegel, Recognition And Rights: ‘Anerkennung’ As A Gridline Of The Philosophy Of Rights Abstract PDF
Jürgen Lawrenz 153-169
Hegel’s Theory of Moral Action, its Place in his System and the ‘Highest’ Right of the Subject Abstract PDF
David Rose 170-191
No. 3
Being and Implication: On Hegel and the Greeks Abstract PDF
Andrew Haas 192-210
The Relevance of Hegel’s Logic Abstract PDF
John W Burbidge 211-221
Agamben, Hegel, and the State of Exception Abstract PDF
Wendell Kisner 222-253
Gathering and Dispersing: The Absolute Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy Abstract PDF
George Vassilacopoulos 254-275
Hegel and the Becoming of Essence Abstract PDF
David Gray Carlson 276-290
Dialectical Reason and Necessary Conflict—Understanding and the Nature of Terror Abstract PDF
Angelica Nuzzo 291-307
The Spirit (of our Time) is and is not a Bone. Abstract PDF
Johan Vandycke 38-327
The Beginning Before the Beginning: Hegel and the Activation of Philosophy Abstract PDF
Paul Ashton 328-356
Kierkegaard’s Ethical Stage In Hegel’s Logical Categories: Actual Possibility, Reality And Necessity Abstract PDF
María J. Binetti 357-369
El estadio ético de Kierkegaard en las categorías lógicas de Hegel: posibilidad, realidad y necesidad actuales Abstract PDF
María J. Binetti 370-383
Book Reviews
A Preface to a New Era (Yirmiyahu Yovel, Hegel’s Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit) Abstract PDF
Mark Hewson 384-388
Recognition or Decentred Agency? Philosophical Culture and its Discontents (Jurist, Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency) Abstract PDF
Robert Sixto Sinnerbrink 389-395
A Model of Pedagogy, but is it Hegel? Abstract PDF
Jack William Moloney 396-399
The ‘Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit’—a Brief Review (Stern, Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit) Abstract PDF
Tim Themi 400-404
A book version has also just appeared with re.press:
I just found your website through my Google Alerts for Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy. What a wonderful site! It parallels my own in much content and spirit. I think that you may enjoy it – and you are free, of course, to use it as a resource. It covers issues such as:
Critical Theory
Critical Theorists
Critical Practice (Praxis)
Critical Pedagogy
Critical Education Theory
Colonisation
Postcolonialism
Postmodernism
Indigenous Studies
Critical Psychology
Cultural Studies
Critical Aesthetics
Hegemony,
Academic Programme Development
Sustainable Design
Critical Design etc. etc.
The website at: http://www.TonyWardEdu.com contains more than 60 (free) downloadable and fully illustrated PDFs on all of these topics and more offered to students from the primer level, up to PhD. It also has a set of extensive bibliographies and related web links in all of these areas as well as a growinng list of Critical Theorist biographies similar to your own.
Have a look at it and perhaps bring it to the attention of your friends and colleagues for them to use as a resource also.
There is no catch!
It’s just that I an retired and want to pass on the knowledge and experience acquired in 40 years of award-winning University teaching. All that I ask in return, is that you and they let me know what you think about the website and cite me for any material that may be downloaded and/or used.I would also very much like to have access to your material for posting on my own site (with appropriate acknowledgments of course).
I would also appreciate a link to my site from your own so that others may come to know about it and use it.
Many thanks and best wishes
Dr. Tony Ward Dip.Arch. (Birm)
Academic Programme, Tertiary Education Facilitator and Design Consultant
July 19th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
I found these videos on youtube and thought you folks might be interested in them.
Noam Chomsky vs. Michel Foucault: Part One; Part Two
July 22nd, 2006 at 9:15 am
Dear Farhang,
What a great site! You’ve done a marvellous job and I’m sure many people will want to check it out. I’m a lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney, and would be happy to publicise your site on lists over here in Australia. I also wanted to let you know that we have a society for Continental Philosophy (the ASCP or Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy) that has been running for a few years and that has just had a successful conference in Geelong near Melbourne. The url is: http://www.ascp.org.au
This year we had Robert Pippin and Agnes Heller over from the US as keynote speakers. Last year we had Wendy Brown and Judith Butler, the year before at Macquarie University we had J.M. Bernstein and Colin Gordon. This is a growing and evolving organisation, so we’d love to link up and talk with with other groups and interested people across the globe. Keep up the good work!
All the best,
Robert
August 14th, 2006 at 1:06 am
Dear Farhang,
The site looks great–part blog, part bulletin board.
I wanted to let you know that we have placed you in the links database on our own webstie, TheoPhenomenon. We also have a small feature on American University’s philosophy program.
Keep up the fine work.
-M. Deem and K. Cabello
September 7th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Thought you might be interested in this conference on Foucault in October 2006 organized by The Foucault Society called “The Body: Ethos and Ethics”
September 12th, 2006 at 12:03 am
Thanks Jani. I could not find the conference program. Is it out yet? I’ll post it as soon as I can find it.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:26 am
Dear Farhang,
Thought you might be interested in the latest issue of Social Semiotics, Volume 16, No. 3, September 2006, a special issue on “The Political Futures of Jacques Derrida”:
http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/(qhh35e450vtsupadegwgzbvm)/app/home/issue.asp?referrer=parent&backto=journal,1,20;linkingpublicationresults,1:104668,1
All the best,
Robert
October 18th, 2006 at 2:59 am
Farhang,
I came across this while looking for one of his essays. This website contains many of the Nietzsche’s text in full:
http://www.holtof.com/library/nietzsche/ns/select.htm
Alex.
October 18th, 2006 at 3:10 am
Another E-text. This time for Adorno.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/index.htm
(the archive also has the other Frankfurt school theorists - and, other Marxist e-texts in general)
Alex.
November 22nd, 2006 at 2:54 pm
This is a terrific resource! Thanks for the hard work….
Keep it coming!
MT.
November 30th, 2006 at 5:07 am
video (Google Video): Nietzsche’s Last Days
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2351801517534237882&q=nietzsche
Amazingly, there’s a video of Nietzsche on Google Video and YouTube. Apparently the sequence is from May 1899 at Naumbach. The photographer/cinematographer is Hans Olde whose paintings of Nietzsche are well known….
January 24th, 2007 at 3:56 am
Hmm….
I’d really like to publish some of your insightful philosophical work on the opensource philosophy wiki: http://sophiasdialectic.com
Is this okay with you?
March 5th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Would it be possible to post a notice about our journal ‘Collapse’? Thanks.
The second volume of ‘Collapse’ resumes the construction of a conceptual space unbounded by any disciplinary constraints, comprising subjects from probability theory to theology, from quantum theory to neuroscience, from astrophysics to necrology, and involving them in unforeseen and productive syntheses.
‘Collapse Volume II’ features a selection of speculative essays by some of the foremost young philosophers at work today, together with new work from artists and cinéastes, and searching interviews with leading scientists. Against the tide of institutional balkanisation and specialisation, this volume testifies to a defiant reanimation of the most radical philosophical problematics - the status of the scientific object, metaphysics and its ‘end’, the prospects for a revival of speculative realism, the possibility of phenomenology, transcendence and the divine, the nature of causation, the necessity of contingency - both through a fresh reappropriation of the philosophical tradition and through an openness to its outside. The breadth of philosophical thought in this volume is matched by the surprising and revealing thematic connections that emerge between the philosophers and scientists who have contributed.
- Ray Brassier (Middlesex University, author of the forthcoming ‘Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction’) gives the first full-length exposition and critical examination in English of Quentin Meillassoux’s important book ‘Apres la Finitude’, which mounts a radical critique of post-Kantian philosophy on the basis of its inability to account for the literal meaning of scientific statements concerning ‘arche-fossils’ existing anterior to the possibility of their phenomenal manifestation.
- Building upon his thesis in ‘Apres la Finitude’, Quentin Meillassoux (ENS, Paris) proposes a reprisal of Hume’s problem of causation from a radical ontological persective. By affirming the absolute contingency of natural laws, Meillassoux argues for a revival of a realistic metaphysics which he calls ‘speculative materialism’ and brings to light a powerful new ontological concept of time.
- In an extended interview, Roberto Trotta (theoretical cosmologist, Lockyer Research Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society at the Astrophysics Department at Oxford University) describes in detail his work as a scientist engaged in surveying the ‘arche-fossil’, and discusses the ways in which the cross-disciplinary nature of the search for dark matter — an intense collaborative endeavour involving mathematics, astrophysics, theoretical modelling and statistics — anticipates the problematic status of its objects. The interview reveals how the process of determination of this field of research on the ‘outer edge’ of science, bounded equally by technological, probabilistic and logical constraints, raises questions as to the status of scientific thought and problematises its very conceptual foundations, thus emphasising its continuities with traditionally ‘philosophical’ concerns.
- In ‘On Vicarious Causation’ Graham Harman (American University in Cairo; author of ‘Tool-Being’ and ‘Guerilla Metaphysics’) puts forward a new realist ‘object-oriented’ metaphysics which, refusing the primacy of human experience and in defiance of post-Kantian ‘philosophies of access’, seeks to speak for the abyssal depths of ‘the objects themselves’.
- In an interview with Paul Churchland (U.Cal, San Diego) the brilliantly iconoclastic philosopher of mind and science reiterates his commitment to eliminative materialism, exploring its broad consequences for science and philosophy, and remarking key research outcomes and philosophical problems which have influenced its development.
- Clémentine Duzer & Laura Gozlan present a series of stills taken from their film Nevertheless Empire, an expressionist science-fiction noir of pestilence, biopolitics and desire.
- Artist Kristen Alvanson’s photo/diagrammatic essay on the ontotheology of the Middle-Eastern graveyard examines what differences in burial practices propose as to the philosophical thinking of space and of dwelling and examines the consequences for our image of thought.
- In a continuation of his unrivalled radical questioning of the ultimate bases of the ‘clash of civilisations’, Reza Negarestani details, through a searching analysis of Islamic and Western theologies, how the absolute exteriority of Allah in Islam results in a particular conception of temporality, different vectors for the propogation of faith, and an immanent apocalypse which cannot be reduced to a chronological moment or a possibility of unification.
Order or subscribe at :
http://www.urbanomic.com/order.php
The introductions to volumes I and II can be downloaded on the website as PDFs.
COLLAPSE Volume II
Edited by Robin Mackay
March 2007.
Paperback 115×175mm 330pp
Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies.
ISBN 0-9553087-1-2
RAY BRASSIER
The Enigma of Realism
QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX
Potentiality and Virtuality
ROBERTO TROTTA
Dark Matter: Facing the Arche-Fossil (Interview)
GRAHAM HARMAN
On Vicarious Causation
PAUL CHURCHLAND
Demons Get Out! (Interview)
CLÉMENTINE DUZER & LAURA GOZLAN
Nevertheless Empire
REZA NEGARESTANI
Islamic Exotericism: Apocalypse in the Wake of Refractory Impossibility
KRISTEN ALVANSON
Elysian Space in the Middle East
Still Available: Collapse Volume I ‘Numerical Materialism’

COLLAPSE VOLUME I
ALAIN BADIOU
‘Philosophy, Sciences, Mathematics’ (Interview)
GREGORY CHAITIN
‘Epistemology as Information Theory’
REZA NEGARESTANI
‘The Militarization of Peace’
MATTHEW WATKINS
‘Prime Evolution(Interview)’
‘INCOGNITUM’
‘Introduction to ABJAD’
NICK BOSTROM
‘Existential Risk (Interview)
THOMAS DUZER
‘On the Mathematics of Intensity’
KEITH TILFORD
‘Crowds’
NICK LAND
‘Qabbala 101′
March 5th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
ps I added a link to this blog on our site.
March 5th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
finally, the history of madness has been published in full: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=8904 thought a number of readers might be interested - thanks
March 7th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
This may interest you. It is about Baudrillard’s very first book (just published last year) : Book Review of Jean Baudrillard’s Pataphysics
Reviewed by Joseph Nechvatal
at The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (IJBS)
http://www.ubishops.ca/BaudrillardStudies/vol4_1/nechvatal.htm
March 7th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
many thanks!
March 25th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Dear Farhang;
I am an Iranian fillmmaker and I would I like to translate some of these articles in Farsi . Am I supposed to do it or not ?
Thanks a lot.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
I’d love to subscribe to your blog’s feed (since I’m so RSS-dependent that otherwise I wouldn’t remember to check it), but the RSS link on the main page leads to an error page.
-Mandel
March 29th, 2007 at 11:01 am
I just checked the blog feed and it seems to work. Did you use this : http://www.continental-philosophy.org/feed/ ? Please let me know if it is not working and thank you so much for your interest.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Lexington Books has just published my Derrida’s Aporetic Ethics.
April 11th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Dear Farhang,
The site it’s amazing. I’m a web responsable of Applied ethics Department at Ramon Llull University.
I wanted to let you know if it’s possible make a link in your database: Catedra Ethos (http://ethos.url.edu). All of our contains are in catalan (laguage of Catalonia, small part of Spain), but I think that this qüestion is not important, we are various links in english language, your page obviously too.
And nothing, thank you very much, and excuse my english.
Good luck with this great work.
cristian
May 29th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Greetings,
Would it be possible to feature a couple of philosophy events we’re holding at Greenwich University?
The details are as follows:
1. Colloquium
Dr Mick Bowles (Greenwich)
‘Understanding: Kant, Spinoza, Deleuze’
Thurs 7th June 2007
Greenwich University
Room KW003, King William Court, Old Royal Naval College
7-9pm
Entrance is free but please e-mail volcaniclines@hotmail.com if you plan to
attend.
For directions to the venue see http://www.deleuzeatgreenwich.blogspot.com
2. ‘The Strange Encounter of Kant and Deleuze’ Conference
Saturday July 7th, Greenwich University, Maritime Campus, Old Royal Naval College, London: 10am - 5pm
This conference aims to explore and dramatise the conceptual relations that exist between Gilles Deleuze and Immanuel Kant. Deleuze offers us a ‘transcendental empiricism’ in direct contrast to Kant’s ‘transcendental idealism’ and the combination of their common ground and their stark oppositions makes this a particularly fertile realm of thought. There has been a growing recognition of the importance of the connections between
Deleuze and Kant and this conference aims for the first time to place these relations centre stage. We are strongly encouraging both Deleuzian and Kantian scholars to come together in a constructive encounter that has critical importance for the wider philosophical community.
Keynote Session
Dr Paul Davies (Sussex University) and Dr Daniel W. Smith (Purdue
University)
Registration
There is no registration fee for the conference. To register simply e-mail volcaniclines@hotmail.com in order to give us an idea of the numbers.
Volcanic Lines Deleuzian Research Group - an initiative of the Greenwich University Philosophy Department.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Came across the first chapter of Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment in pdf form:
https://www.sup.org/html/book_pages/0804736324/Chapter%201.pdf
Alex.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Book Review of Jacques Rancière’s The Politics of Aesthetics
http://post.thing.net/blog/244
June 7th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
[...] (h/t: Alex) [...]
June 9th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Is there any way to get the complet Heidegger documentary?
I’ll appreciate your response.
Yours truly,
Mario Diament
June 9th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Dear Mario
I am honestly not sure, beyond what I found and posted
June 14th, 2007 at 9:29 am
You might be interested in this:
A short film about Rorty
June 26th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Farhang,
Here are some mp3s of Mouffe, Zizek, Badiou and a couple of others: http://www.discoursenotebook.com/
July 12th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Hi Farhang
You have a really intersting site, which I found when looking for information on Zizek. I went to see him talk on Sunday night in London. I’d like to get a copy of the talk as it was hard keeping up with him!
Let me know if you can get a copy.
Emma.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
While I like your site very much, I do not see anything on postcolonial theory, which I expected it to be in one of your subfields. Do you think it is not theory/philosophy?
August 4th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Farhang,
Don’t know if you’ve come across this, but here is a website full of audio lectures on various philosophical and political themes all in real audio format, including Allen Wood on Hegel (http://www.philosophytalk.org/pastShows/Hegel.html), a lecture on existentialism (http://www.philosophytalk.org/pastShows/Existentialism.html) and other misc. topics:
http://www.philosophytalk.org/notesPastShows.htm
August 13th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Dear Farhang,
Any idea where The Zizek video on Spectatorship and Neutrality might’ve moved? Is it in text anywhere? I’m working on a paper on Ranciere, spectatorship, and neutrality and I believe it might be fruitful to hear Zizek’s take.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Dear Farhang,
Here is a link for a special issue of Scan: A Journal of Media Arts Culture on “Film as Philosophy”, vol. 4, no. 2, August 2007.
http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/index.php
And a list of the featured articles:
A phenomenology of tragedy: illness and body betrayal in The Fly
Havi Carel
Grief’s Testimony: On Almodóvar’s All About My Mother
Fiona Jenkins
A Play of Memory: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil
Catherine Summerhayes
Grace and Violence: Questioning Politics and Desire in Lars von Trier’s Dogville
Robert Sinnerbrink
Even Better than the Real Thing: Sadism and Real(ity) T.V.
Matthew Sharpe
Thinking cinema(tically) and the Industrial Temporal Object: Schemes and technics of experience in Bernard Stiegler’s Technics and Time series
Patrick Crogan
The cinematic condition of the politico-philosophical future
Daniel Ross
Cheers,
Robert
September 13th, 2007 at 2:17 am
first chapter pdf/text of wendy brown’s politics out of history can be found here:
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7210.html
alex.
September 14th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Youtube Videolectures by Badiou, Baudrillard, Butler, Delanda, Derrida, Zizek
Sorry for crossposting. Complete lectures from Judith Butler,
Peter Greenaway, Slavoj Zizek, John Waters, Geert Lovink, Friedrich
Kittler, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, DJ Spooky, Giorgio Agamben, Manuel Delanda, Jean Luc Nancy, Michael Hardt and others have been uploaded to Youtube by the European Graduate School -
http://www.egs.edu/
The school claims that they will upload more and more lectures from the last 10 years. The current list of complete videolectures can be found at the Youtube channel of the European Graduate School.
A subscription will automatically informed you about
new video lectures and presentations.
http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=egsvideo
Excerpt of the Playlist:
Alain Badiou - Democracy, Politics, Theory, and Philosophy 2006
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0C54FA6AC226C551
Alain Badiou - Destruction, Negation and Subtraction. 2007
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EF86550BCF0C9502
…
Playlists, a rather unknown feature of Youtube, basically connect
individual videoclips and allow the upload of videoclips longer than
10 minutes.
The school is basically implementing an open lecture program, part of an European answer to the limited open courseware program by MIT. Please enjoy and thank you.
September 24th, 2007 at 6:18 am
Farhang,
Came across these mp3s:
David Harvey on Capitalism and Neoliberalism:
http://www.listeningtowords.com/person.php?id=821
a Badiou lecture at UWashington (although this might have been posted through other sites - not sure): http://www.listeningtowords.com/person.php?id=1132
and as far as political philosophy:
Quentin Skinner on Hobbes:
http://www.listeningtowords.com/person.php?id=1092
October 19th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Kojin Karatani’s visit to stanford was recorded and is up on the website here (along with the pdf version of the introduction to Transcritique, which is actually much more cogent and lucid than the actual lectures):
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/asianlang/events/karatani/
Berkeley’s Is Critique Secular? contains 3 pds on the question of Critique (by Talal Asad, Amy Hollywood and Colin Jager) http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/swg_crittheory.shtml
November 14th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Dear CP.org,
I don’t have a link, but if you could somehow direct people to itunes to download the CBC Radio Best of Ideas podcast- to listen to ‘The God Who May Be’, a three part dialogue with philosopher Richard Kearney of Boston College-that would be excellent.
Many thanks,
Joel Buxton
December 1st, 2007 at 6:11 am
Dear Farhang,
If you haven’t the link, here are some audio lectures by Derrida ‘On Religion’,
Great site,
Joel
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:18 am
[...] Some other interesting links, including the ones provided by Alex by Badiou, one on Hobbes, etc. (Link) [...]
December 4th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Would it be possible to link to this conference CFP on your website: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/trg/conf2008.html
I may have already contacted you about this; if so, sorry for the repetition.
-rob
December 8th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Just came across this link, which is a pdf of max weber’s politics as a vocation, thought people might find it useful.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=17&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sscnet.ucla.edu%2Fpolisci%2Fethos%2FWeber-vocation.pdf&ei=m2BbR6CxEZaspwTazfW9CQ&usg=AFQjCNGwusdE-3RvNHvoSUmgmxki1gXsXQ&sig2=H9hLn-poS3Weq_-k_Co6CQ
December 21st, 2007 at 5:21 am
I found a website with many audio files of lectures given by Continentalists and others. Unfortunately only in m4a format.
http://slought.org/content/radio.php
and much more here:
http://slought.org/series/Conversations/
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Dear Farhang,
Your site is a great service to the community.
After a year of hibernation, the Agamben-inspired blog “form of life” returns as “notes for the coming community” (consider it as the second coming) with a piece called “Discipline and Publish: Disputation of Academia”
Best,
Aviva
December 29th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Farhang,
Came across this website with some psychoanalytic material, including several pdfs of Lacan’s talks in the US.
http://web.missouri.edu/~stonej/t67894312xxxv.html
Best
Alex.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:13 am
There is an interview from the journal of philosophy and scripture with Badiou here:
http://www.philosophyandscripture.org/Issue3-1/Badiou/Badiou.html
January 14th, 2008 at 4:46 am
One more website with links (though some of them are back to marxists.org) that i am not sure whether you’ve posted before…
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/Online_Texts/
January 19th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
A great pdf library - it is from a Penn English prof’s website so a lot of texts are either lit or deal with Anglo-American lit, but includes texts by Derrida, Foucault, Bataille and some others.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/pdf-library.html
January 20th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Dear Farhang,
Great to see the bulletin board up and running again for 2008! I thought you might be interested in this special double issue of Cosmos and History, “The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking” celebrating 100 years since the publication of the Phenomenology of Spirit.
http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/issue/current
Here’s the contents list:
The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking
Table of Contents
No. 2
The Spirit of The Age and the Fate of Philosophical Thinking Abstract PDF
Paul Ashton, Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos 1-4
Would Hegel Be A ‘Hegelian’ Today? Abstract PDF
H. S. Harris 5-15
Hegel, Idealism and God: Philosophy as the Self-Correcting Appropriation of the Norms of Life and Thought Abstract PDF
Paul Redding 16-31
Hegel, Derrida and the Subject Abstract PDF
Simon Lumsden 32-50
Hegel’s Science of Logic and the “Sociality of Reason” Abstract PDF
Jorge Armando Reyes 51-83
The Ego as World: Speculative Justification and the Role of the Thinker in Hegel’s Philosophy Abstract PDF
Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos 84-116
Hegel Today: Towards a Tragic Conception of Intercultural Conflicts Abstract PDF
Karin G de Boer 117-131
Sein und Geist: Heidegger’s Confrontation with Hegel’s Phenomenology Abstract PDF
Robert Sixto Sinnerbrink 132-152
Hegel, Recognition And Rights: ‘Anerkennung’ As A Gridline Of The Philosophy Of Rights Abstract PDF
Jürgen Lawrenz 153-169
Hegel’s Theory of Moral Action, its Place in his System and the ‘Highest’ Right of the Subject Abstract PDF
David Rose 170-191
No. 3
Being and Implication: On Hegel and the Greeks Abstract PDF
Andrew Haas 192-210
The Relevance of Hegel’s Logic Abstract PDF
John W Burbidge 211-221
Agamben, Hegel, and the State of Exception Abstract PDF
Wendell Kisner 222-253
Gathering and Dispersing: The Absolute Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy Abstract PDF
George Vassilacopoulos 254-275
Hegel and the Becoming of Essence Abstract PDF
David Gray Carlson 276-290
Dialectical Reason and Necessary Conflict—Understanding and the Nature of Terror Abstract PDF
Angelica Nuzzo 291-307
The Spirit (of our Time) is and is not a Bone. Abstract PDF
Johan Vandycke 38-327
The Beginning Before the Beginning: Hegel and the Activation of Philosophy Abstract PDF
Paul Ashton 328-356
Kierkegaard’s Ethical Stage In Hegel’s Logical Categories: Actual Possibility, Reality And Necessity Abstract PDF
María J. Binetti 357-369
El estadio ético de Kierkegaard en las categorías lógicas de Hegel: posibilidad, realidad y necesidad actuales Abstract PDF
María J. Binetti 370-383
Book Reviews
A Preface to a New Era (Yirmiyahu Yovel, Hegel’s Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit) Abstract PDF
Mark Hewson 384-388
Recognition or Decentred Agency? Philosophical Culture and its Discontents (Jurist, Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency) Abstract PDF
Robert Sixto Sinnerbrink 389-395
A Model of Pedagogy, but is it Hegel? Abstract PDF
Jack William Moloney 396-399
The ‘Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit’—a Brief Review (Stern, Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit) Abstract PDF
Tim Themi 400-404
A book version has also just appeared with re.press:
http://www.re-press.org/content/view/41/38/
Many thanks!
Robert
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
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Postcolonialism
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Critical Psychology
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Critical Aesthetics
Hegemony,
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Sustainable Design
Critical Design etc. etc.
The website at: http://www.TonyWardEdu.com contains more than 60 (free) downloadable and fully illustrated PDFs on all of these topics and more offered to students from the primer level, up to PhD. It also has a set of extensive bibliographies and related web links in all of these areas as well as a growinng list of Critical Theorist biographies similar to your own.
Have a look at it and perhaps bring it to the attention of your friends and colleagues for them to use as a resource also.
There is no catch!
It’s just that I an retired and want to pass on the knowledge and experience acquired in 40 years of award-winning University teaching. All that I ask in return, is that you and they let me know what you think about the website and cite me for any material that may be downloaded and/or used.I would also very much like to have access to your material for posting on my own site (with appropriate acknowledgments of course).
I would also appreciate a link to my site from your own so that others may come to know about it and use it.
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