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CFP: "Beyond the Postmodern: Reading Late Lyotard"

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 3 weeks ago: Call for papers ‘Beyond the Postmodern: Reading the ‘late’ Lyotard’ edited b … more →

Tags: Philosophy, CFP

The Sovereignty of the Image #3: Images of Avoidance (concluded)

frankseeburger wrote 1 month ago: Below is the conclusion of what I was only able to begin in my preceding post–a section called … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, "primary" and "secondary" repression, representation

Vive la differends - or what happens when I color completely outside the lines

Harold Knight wrote 1 month ago: The (man in the) robe A memory—no, really a flash/back— déjà vu—an event happened long ago yet proba … more →

Tags: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Bipolar Disorder, hypergraphia, epilepsy, Neurology, brain, writing, mania, Wittgenstein

The Sovereignty of the Image #1: Obscene Images

frankseeburger wrote 1 month ago: Today I begin posting the draft of yet another chapter for what I hope will eventually become a book … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, Holocaust, representation, september 11

Jean-François Lyotard (1924—1998) and the theory on Postmodernism

Satdeep ਸਤਦੀਪ ستدیپ wrote 1 month ago: French post-structuralist philosopher, best known for his highly influential formulation of postmode … more →

Tags: psychoanalyst, Ideology, Postmodernism

Our Debt to the Dead #5: Dishonoring the Dead

frankseeburger wrote 1 month ago: Below is the continuation of my draft for what I hope will eventually become a book chapter–a … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, Holocaust, our debt to the dead, representation, Robert J. Lifton

Babae / Woman

karlo mikhail wrote 2 months ago: I remember the second time I visited SM City Iloilo this year quite vividly for the simple reason th … more →

Tags: Music, Política, Theoria, babae, capitalism, de Beauvoir, Feminism, feminist, gender role

Quotation for thought

kevinduong wrote 2 months ago: Since I won’t be able to make a substantive post until this weekend, a quick update with recom … more →

Tags: kevin duong, New Books

Lyotard, Heidegger, the Jews, and "the jews"--#3

frankseeburger wrote 4 months ago: 7/24/09 Below is the third and final entry from my philosophical journal addressing Jean-Francois Ly … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, Truth, Holocaust, Auschwitz, representation, Heidegger, trauma and addiction, Jacques Rancière

Lyotard, Heidegger, the Jews, and "the jews"--#2

frankseeburger wrote 4 months ago: 7/22/09 This is the second of a series of three posts on Jean-Francois Lyotard’s Heidegger and … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, Truth, Holocaust, Auschwitz, representation

Lyotard, Heidegger, Jews, and "the jews"--#1

frankseeburger wrote 5 months ago: 7/20/09 Today is the first of three posts on Jean-Francois Lyotard’s Heidegger and “the … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, representation, Heidegger, Repression, the temporality of trauma

Postmodernity and the Concept of the Cyborg2 comments

A.R. Duckworth wrote 6 months ago: Identity is a central issue in postmodernism and many theorists and artists have argued that identit … more →

Tags: Sci-Fi, Philosophy, cultural studies, postmodern, post-modern, Post-modernism, Ideology, Science Fiction, Culture

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone1 comment

sarinahm wrote 6 months ago: Today I wished Edward Said were alive.  Browsing through the responses of those the New York Times c … more →

Tags: film, Barack Obama, Edward Said, I dont want to sleep alone, Peace, The Differend, Tsai Ming-liang

You know, none of the epic poets, if they're good, are masters of their subject; they are inspired, possessed, and that is how they utter all those beautiful poems.

heidi wrote 6 months ago: This is somewhere between takeoff and landing, and suspended over midair in an aluminium capsule wit … more →

Tags: future future future perfect, Plato

The Kiss and Other Movements

heidi wrote 7 months ago: To the obsolescence of the meta-narrative apparatus of legitimation corresponds, most notably, the c … more →

Tags: y'all get scared now, ya hear!, -Dear Reader-

you pick up the phone and i'm so relieved

protovietic wrote 9 months ago: Reading Jean-Francois Lyotard “Forward: After the Words” in Art After Philosophy and Aft … more →

Tags: Photography, sad dolls, Art, Animal Collective, Summertime Clothes, Joseph Kosuth, Philosophy

LES IMMATÉRIAUX

artmomentum wrote 10 months ago: REVUE DE PRESSE Réalisation Clotilde Pivin | France Culture – Paris | Feb 17, 2009 Il devient … more →

Tags: Contemporary Art, Exhibition, Paris, Centre Georges-Pompidou

(Future) New Book: Lyotard's L'Enthousiasme (in English)

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 11 months ago: For those interested, I’ve noticed that Stanford’s Cultural Memory in the Present series … more →

Tags: Craptasitc Academic Drek, Philosophy, Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History, English translation, Cultural Memory in the Present

Eat Your Candidates

gnarlybuttons wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I found myself slightly disturbed by McCain’s recent surge in the polls. Or maybe I … more →

Tags: Economics, Theory & Analysis, Colin Campbell, consumerism, consumption, election, McCain, obama, social value nexus


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