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11 12, 2008

critique of violence

By |2016-01-12T21:10:50+02:00December 11th, 2008|philosophy, politics|Comments Off on critique of violence

Walter Benjamin, 1978 The task of a critique of violence can be summarized as that of expounding its relation to law and justice. For a cause, however effective, becomes violent, in the precise sense of the word, only when it bears on moral issues. The sphere of these issues is defined by the concepts of law and justice. With regard to the first of these, it is clear that the most elementary rela­tionship within any legal system is that of ends to means, and, further, that violence can first be sought only in the realm of means, not of ends. These observations provide a critique of violence with more-and certainly different-premises than perhaps appears. For if violence is a means, a criterion for criticizing it might seem immediately available. It imposes itself in the question whether violence, in a given case, is a means to a just or an unjust [...]

10 12, 2008

Critchley’s Violent Thoughts About Slavoj Zizek

By |2016-01-12T21:10:50+02:00December 10th, 2008|philosophy, politics|1 Comment

"Slavoj Zizek has been telling lies about me.", Simon Critchley This is the latest article regarding the intellectual polemics between Simon Critchley and Slavoj Zizek. Read it here:: [Naked Punch 11] More about this debate can be found in the following: 1. Critchley: Infinitely Demanding. Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance, Verso, London & New York. 2. Zizek: Resistance Is Surrender in the London Review of Books 3. T.J. Clark's Response in the London Review of Books & David Graeber's Response in the London Review of Books 4. Zizek's Response in the London Review of Books 5. Zizek's extended critique in Harper's (February 2008) 6. Critchley's response in Harper's (May 2008) 7. Zizek's In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso, London and New York, 2008), pp.337-350. 8. Before the Law  

6 12, 2008

Examined Life

By |2016-01-12T21:10:51+02:00December 6th, 2008|documentaries, music, philosophy, research, technology|1 Comment

Examined Life takes philosophy out of the darkened corners of academia and into the hustle and bustle of the everyday, a visual reminder that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the world around us. It is directed by Astra Taylor, whose feature documentary portrait of world famous philosopher Slavoj Zizek, Zizek!, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005. Examined Life interweaves fascinating “walks” with philosophers through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas -- crowded city streets, deser ted alleyways, Central Park and even a garbage dump. The film is co-produced by Sphinx Productions, whose award-winning theatrical documentaries include Imagine the Sound (Best Documentary, Chicago Film Festival), Comic Book Confidential and Grass (both Genie Award winners). Featuring the “rock star” philosophers of our time, including Cornel West, Peter Singer, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Avital Ronell, Michael Hardt, Anthony Appiah and Martha Nussbaum. [quicktime]http://www.sphinxproductions.com/media/examinedlife/examinedlife_trailer.mov[/quicktime] [...]

19 11, 2008

Lacanian Ink 32 – FALL 2008

By |2016-01-12T21:10:51+02:00November 19th, 2008|philosophy|1 Comment

Josefina Ayerza To resume again… http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII1.html Jacques-Alain Miller A Reading of the Seminar From an Other to the other IV http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII2.html Jacques-Alain Miller The Other Side of Lacan http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII3.html Alain Badiou The Son’s Aleatory Identity in Today’s World http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII4.html Lilia Mahjoub The Image in the Fantasy http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII5.html Massimo Recalcati Madness and Structure in Jacques Lacan http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII6.html Jean-Luc Nancy Strange Foreign Bodies http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII7.html Slavoj Zizek Why Lacan Is Not a Heideggerian http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII8.html Josefina Ayerza Cecily Brown, Doug Aitken http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII9.html

10 11, 2008

Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life

By |2016-01-12T21:10:51+02:00November 10th, 2008|philosophy, politics|0 Comments

Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics), Martin Hagglund "It is a masterful performance and one cannot help but be convinced in the end... Radical Atheism is a brilliant and most original work that is certain to be read, argued with, commented on, and frequently cited. It carves out a way of reading and interpreting Derrida—indeed all of Derrida, from early to late works—that every reader of Derrida will have to reckon with." Michael Naas, DePaul University "Impeccably argued, Radical Atheism is bound to have a significant impact on Derrida scholarship. By developing the logic of survival, Hägglund convincingly demonstrates that Derrida is essentially a philosopher of life, but of the only life there is—the life of finite beings—and hence a radical thinker of temporality. It is a very courageous book as well that critically takes issue with the negative theologians' appropriation of Derrida and makes [...]

10 08, 2008

διαφωρές (απο)δόμησης

By |2016-01-12T21:11:04+02:00August 10th, 2008|philosophy|1 Comment

Εν δυνάμει, μπορούν να υπάρξουν/κατασκευαστούν πολλών ειδών διαφορές : καλό - κακό, άσπρο - μαύρο, αριστερό - δεξιό, νέο - παλαιό, πραγματικό - μεταφυσικό, υποτακτικό - ανυπότακτο, εδώ - εκεί, ναι - όχι ... ίσως μια πιο "ουσιαστική διαφωρά" να είναι αυτή ανάμεσα σε αυτούς που εστιάζουν στις διαφορές καθαυτές και δρουν βάσει του πλαισίου τους και σε αυτούς που βλέπουν τις εκάστοτε αναδυόμενες διαφωρές ως έναυσμα για αναλυτική προς την φύση αυτών δράση. Θα μπορούσε όμως αυτό το παιχνίδι των διαφωρών να είναι οντολογικά ατελείωτο; Το πιθανότερο είναι να μας οδηγήσει σε μια ατέρμονη ενέλιξη, μια ιδεολογική υποτροπή, του τύπου του ακραίου μετα-στρουκτουραλισμού, η οποία στην προσπάθεια της να στηριχθεί κάπου, να ορίσει την γλώσσα της, την καταστρέφει αδιάκοπα χωρίς να αφήσει κανένα ίχνος πίσω της. Η (απο)δομητική σκέψη όμως δεν ορίζεται βάσει της υπερίσχυσης της υποτροπής έναντι της της υπέρβασης και της εγγραφής όπως αναφέρεται σε διάφορες ερμηνείες [...]

6 08, 2008

«σωματίδιο του Θεού», eh?

By |2016-01-12T21:11:04+02:00August 6th, 2008|philosophy, research, technology|0 Comments

Ο άνθρωπος θα απελευθερωθεί από τις θεωρητικές δοξασίες... "Μετά τα πρώτα ολοκληρωμένα αποτελέσματα από το μεγάλο πείραμα στο CERN ο άνθρωπος θα νιώθει πολύ πιο απελευθερωμένος από τις θεωρητικές δοξασίες στις οποίες ως τώρα βασιζόταν για να κατανοήσει σημαντικά κοσμολογικά ερωτήματα όπως η γέννηση, εξέλιξη και δομή του Σύμπαντος. Βασιζόμενος πλέον σε επιστημονικά δεδομένα και όχι σε υποθετικές προσεγγίσεις, θα ατενίζει με μεγαλύτερη σιγουριά το μέλλον του, δηλώνει στον Ελεύθερο Τύπο ο ακαδημαϊκός και εθνικός εκπρόσωπος της Ελλάδας στο CERN, Δημήτρης Νανόπουλος." ολόκληρο το άρθρο CERN

2 07, 2008

thinking nothing

By |2016-01-12T21:11:05+02:00July 2nd, 2008|philosophy, research|0 Comments

PARRHESIA and COLLAPSE present a one day symposium (31st July 2008) with title: THINKING NOTHING - the void and its resurgence in contemporary thought From the emergence of empty set as a basis for ontology, to materialist negative theology, to Metzinger's 'nemocentric' destitution of the subject, contemporary thought seems to be obsessed with nothing. But the politics of this nothing seems drastically different from its earlier existentialist and postmodern nihilistic incarnations. This symposium seeks to explore the problem of nothing in contemporary thought, asking precisely how the postulation of an inherent negativity as a productive realm of philosophical discourse has come to characterise our intellectual landscape, and how the contemporary void relates to those of Ancient and Modern philosophical traditions. Speakers: Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne; Author of The Mundiad, Avoiding the Subject [with Dom Pettman], and coeditor/translator of Alain Badiou's Infinite Thought) Ray Brassier (Middlesex University; Author of Nihil [...]

1 07, 2008

Contemporary Aesthetics (2008)

By |2016-01-12T21:11:05+02:00July 1st, 2008|art, philosophy, research|0 Comments

Contemporary Aesthetics encourages inclusive and innovative aesthetic inquiry. Current volume includes: Frederic Will Can We Get Inside the Aesthetic Sensibility of the Archaic Past? Maryvonne Saison "The People Are Missing" Thomas Leddy The Aesthetics of Junkyards and Roadside Clutter Emmanouil Aretoulakis Aesthetic Appreciation, Ethics, and 9/11 Dan Disney Toward a Poeticognosis: Re-reading Plato's The Republic via Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" Jonathan Davis Questioning "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction": A Stroll around the Louvre after Reading Benjamin Grant Tavinor Definition of Videogames SYMPOSIUM: Danto's The Transfiguration of the Commonplace Twenty-Five Years Later Ivan Gaskell The Riddle of a Riddle Thomas E. Wartenberg Not Just Mere Things Cynthia Freeland Danto and Art Criticism Arthur C. Danto Ontology, Criticism, and the Riddle of Art Versus Non-Art in The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

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