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I recently interviewed the philosopher Simon Critchely on his new book, (co-written with his wife and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster) entitled, The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing for the online magazine Berfrois. There's a lot this book opens up not only for Shakespeare studies, but also for psychoanalysis. The idea that mosts interests me in …
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I gave a talk down in Nashville recently with a group called the Family of Abraham, a multi-faith organization that formed in response to intense religious intolerance following the attempt to ban shariah law in Tennessee. The local newspaper in Nashville, the Tennessean wrote a nice piece on the event, which you can read here, …
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I'm very happy to announce a panel I'm putting together at the 2012 Žižek Studies Conference, "Neo-liberal Perversions: Fantasy and Gaze in Contemporary Culture" at the College at Brockport (SUNY) April 28-29, 2012. At the recommendation of the conference director, Antonio Garcia (a great guy), I invited a few friends from the European Graduate School …
A review of Judith Butler's Giving an Account of Oneself by Daniel Tutt.
An experimentation in various brands of public political expression, of an exceptionally dramatic nature.
A Site for the Radical Left
This is why I hate intellectuals
Replacing your neurotic misery with ordinary human unhappiness.
communist interventions readers
Pluralism and Individuation in a World of Becoming
ruins of the buddhist real
From Bauhaus to Beinhaus
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Philosophical Writings
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Cosmism, Prometheanism, New Enlightenment
No bells, just whistling in the dark...
Media, Culture, and Theory
"It’s always with another key that you unlock the house—inside: the snowdrifts of what’s never spoken." —Paul Celan
researcher, lecturer and author in Contemporary European Thought: Atheism and Religion
an otherwise excellent blog
Politics of Space and Bodies
"The Ding is the True Secret"
Insta-punditry on political economy.
so behind we're ahead
It is up to you to be Lacanians if you wish; I am Freudian
let us drink to the success of our hopeless endeavor
Rising Above Limitations, Expectations & Conditions
to make a system out of delusions
Asymmetrical critique
“A man with one theory is lost. He must have several, four, many! " —Bertold Brecht
