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Ann Coulter: Once Banned Resurfaces!5 comments

Shahar Ozeri wrote 11 months ago: First she told me I needed to be perfected, now she’s on the Today Show annoying the freakishl … more →

Tags: Elitism, Depravity, Culture

(Newish) Badiou on Financial Crisis

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 1 year ago: From Le Monde, via Infinite Thought (translated into English), to us:  Telle qu’on nous la pré … more →

Tags: Philosophy, badiou, financial crisis, Infinite Thought, Le Monde

Obama: Overcoming Anti-Intellectualism?4 comments

Shahar Ozeri wrote 1 year ago: Clearly influenced by this post Nicholas Kristof has this to say about Obama: The second most remark … more →

Tags: Elitism, Craptasitc Academic Drek, Philosophy, Pretention, stupidity, kristof, anti-intellectualism, obama

Critchley on Obambi2 comments

Shahar Ozeri wrote 1 year ago: Simon Critchley delivered a lecture last September at the New School entitled “Barack Obama an … more →

Tags: Craptasitc Academic Drek, Philosophy, Simon Critchley, Presidential Election, 2008 Presidential Race, obama

Foucault is just an Affectation! Rehashing Old Debates5 comments

Shahar Ozeri wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been reading Fancois Cusset’s French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & C … more →

Tags: Craptasitc Academic Drek, Depravity, Philosophy, French philosophy, Deconstruction, French Theory, Postmodernism, poststructuralism, Backlash

Ethics of the Lie (New Book)2 comments

Shahar Ozeri wrote 1 year ago: Jean-Michel Rabate (whose The Future of Theory I quite liked) has written a book call The Ethics of … more →

Tags: Craptasitc Academic Drek, Philosophy, Jacques Lacan, lies, Lying, Presedential elections, Bill Clinton, pyschoanalysis

Elitism Is Bad (Unless, Of Course, It Is Good)

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 1 year ago: So all the talk about elitism and arugula (which I am yet to try) in the media, especially when it c … more →

Tags: Elitism, Terry Eagleton, Lenin, Sarah Palin, 2008 Elections

Putin Kills Animal, Sends Stern Message to Palin5 comments

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 1 year ago: The ever-mighty Vladimir Putin kills a tiger and saves a small village of gophers a TV crew: MOSCOW … more →

Tags: awesomeness, Depravity, Vladimir Putin, Sarah Palin, Bambi

Somebody Should Do Something About It.2 comments

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 1 year ago: UPDATE: A nice piece in Guardian that sort of confirms my initial reaction to the matter:  Once such … more →

Tags: 6. Russia, Internationalism, Saakashvili, Georgia, South Ossetia

Secular "Jewishness:" The Case of Isaac Deutscher1 comment

Shahar Ozeri wrote 1 year ago: Somehow, all of this recent talk and thought about philosophy and biography, or philosophy as biogra … more →

Tags: Jewish Stuff, Religion and Politics, Ideology, Isaac Deutscher, Jewishness, secular Jews, Non-Jewish Jew, identity, Socialism

Bush and The State of Exception2 comments

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 1 year ago: Here’s an interesting article from Harper’s dealing with the recent Supreme Court decisi … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Carl Schmitt, bush, Supreme Court, state of exception

Europe's Haunted Borders

Shahar Ozeri wrote 1 year ago: There is a great article in Eurozine about traveling to Walter Benjamin’s grave and memorial i … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Walter Benjamin, Spain, memorials, Memorialization, Immigration

Show Me The Money: Stanley Fish vs. University of Colorado.

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a new blog entry from freshly-from-New-Zealand Stanley Fish. The most interesting part … more →

Tags: Craptasitc Academic Drek, Depravity, Stanley Fish, University of Colorado, Boulder, Chair of Conservative Theory and Policy

No Intelligence? Darwinism under Attack, Again9 comments

Shahar Ozeri wrote 1 year ago: In Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism Michelle Goldberg discusses a document called … more →

Tags: Reviews, Depravity, Religion and Politics, intelligent design, Darwinism

Integral Cosmopolitanism, Not Good3 comments

Shahar Ozeri wrote 1 year ago: Continuing with the discussion between Mitchell Cohen and Andy Arato (see here) about the Left, the … more →

Tags: Israel, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Aggression, Mitchell Cohen, Antisemitism, middle east, The Left, zionism

Appearance of Democracy

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 1 year ago: With all the accusations of electoral violations – direct and indirect – in the recent R … more →

Tags: 6. Russia, democracy, Elections, medvedev, Mugabe, Zimbabwe

Turin Book Fair Honors Israeli Writers, Faces Usual Knee Jerk Reactions6 comments

Shahar Ozeri wrote 1 year ago: As the NY Times reported last month, Israel is being honored at the Turin Book Fair this year and pr … more →

Tags: Depravity, Art, Israel, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Aggression, Turin book fair, Israeli literature, Mitchell Cohen

Craig Calhoun on Cosmopolitanism

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 1 year ago: Over at the Immanent Frame and Societas: The Blog, Craig Calhoun has a series of posts on the issue … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Religion, cosmopolitanism, Craig Calhoun, public reason

Tourism, Israel and Angry Commentators16 comments

Shahar Ozeri wrote 1 year ago: This post about socially responsible tourism in Israel over at Jewcy by University of Denver Jewish … more →

Tags: you learned it here first, Travels, Religion and Politics, Tourism, , Aggression, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestine


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