Christian Thorne has a really great essay on Zizek up, which promises to be the first of three. He argues that the main point of Zizek’s work is to provide a way out of the deadlock of enjoyment… more →
An und für sichwrote 1 day ago: Christian Thorne has a really great essay on Zizek up, which promises to be the first of three. He a … more →
wrote 4 days ago: One of many potential directions for my next book in the light of today’s apparent expectation … more →
wrote 5 days ago: Governance can continue long after the mythic State breaks its final bond (or pact) and the social f … more →
wrote 6 days ago: What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in … more →
wrote 1 week ago: One of the clearest, most succinct descriptions of Michel Foucault’s central insight comes fro … more →
wrote 1 week ago: One by one, the spiritual potentialities that defined the people’s lives – art, religion … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Los Angeles Review of Books has published a piece of mine on How to Read Agamben, a kind of sequel t … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: © Valter Ventura, Cartas do Vazio (Charts of Emptiness), from the project Compêndio do Nada(Compendi … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: “O capitalismo é uma religião, e a mais feroz, implacável e irracional religião que jamais existiu, … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: AUDIO: Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines/Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology “T … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Twin Towers in Sarajevo, July 2002. for the inaugural post of this blog, i want to stick with gramsc … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: My post on the ontology of academia seems to have been widely misunderstood. Indeed, this was so muc … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: So far, I have been avoiding any theoretical discussion of the form itself, choosing rather to highl … more →
wrote 4 weeks ago: Last night, I presented this paper (PDF) to the Paul of Tarsus Interdisciplinary Working Group at No … more →
wrote 4 weeks ago: In the 1960s, a series of publications by economists Gary Becker and Theodore Schulz began to popula … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Agamben, Giorgio. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. Translated by Daniel Heller-Ro … more →
wrote 1 month ago: This text was published in L’Art Même, 58, pp. 18-20. Le corps, il est le point zéro du monde, … more →
wrote 1 month ago: As semesters adjourn and quarters eye the end, InterCcECT invites you to propose summer projects. W … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I have spent a lot of time with Agamben’s Kingdom and the Glory, but until this time through, … more →