http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com media & film, design, philosophy, politics Tue, 18 May 2010 02:12:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About five months ago the head psychiatrist at the clinic where I work approached me about starting a peer supervision group for the Interns and Externs training there. He wanted to construct a space where they could present and discuss their cases, receive feedback from their peers and also raise ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2010/05/reflections-on-the-peer-supervision-process/ The Inhumanities and Speculative Heresy are hosting a cross-blog event on the topic of critical animal studies from the perspective of speculative realism. The first post up – on Levinas, the Other, and animals – has set the stage for what promises to be a lively, rich discussion, centered around ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/09/speculative-realism-and-animal-studies-discussion/ The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations by Daniel Heller-Roazen 295 pp. | 6 x 9 Available November 2009 FORTHCOMING from Zone Books: The pirate is the original enemy of humankind. Before humanitarian organizations, human rights, and the establishment of international law in the early modern period, the Roman statesmen already made ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/09/the-enemy-of-all-piracy-and-the-law-of-nations/ Via Mariborcan, see Open Reflections' round-up of (and commentary on) the major text, philosophy, and theory sharing sites, which are: Fark Yaralari = Scars of Differance Multitude of Blogs Museum of Accidents Discourse Notebook AAAARD.ORG However, as counterpoint to Janneke Adema's echoing of John Perry Barlow's well-known declaration that "information wants to be free", it ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/09/pirated-theory-sites/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Cheddar Mortadelle Cosmos, 2005, by Philippe Mayaux"][/caption] My last post on the Biblical and philosophical concept of "kenosis" ended with a reference to Emmanuel Levinas, whose essay, "Judaism and Kenosis," though unread at the time seemed to promise an altogether different approach that that found in contemporary ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/06/the-lesser-power-levinas-on-judaism-and-kenosis/ Brad DeLong, whose blog I otherwise follow for its sober commentary on the economic collapse, yesterday posted what can only be considered an overly-simplistic and by all accounts intellectually-insulting paper on Karl Marx. At one point, he even stoops to entertaining Paul Samuelson's "joke" that Marx was but a "minor post-Ricardian theorist". In ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/04/brad-delongs-lecture-on-marx/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Point and Shoot, 2008, by Martha Rosler"][/caption] It's a common accusation of the left that politics, liberal and conservative alike, becomes "aestheticized" through persistent suspensions of law and declarations of emergencies. But what, exactly, Neil Levi asks, in a timely, subtle paper on Carl Schmitt, is so ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/04/neil-levi-on-carl-schmitt-and-the-question-of-the-aesthetic/ "Sunaisthēsis is the distant origin of the modern "synaesthesia"; the verb from which it was drawn, sunaisthanesthai, can be found in two passages of Aristotle's treatises. "Formed by the addition of the prefix 'with' (sun-) to the verb 'to sense' or 'to perceive' (aisthanesthai), the expression in all likelihood designated ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/04/synaesthesia-aristotle-and-product-experience/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Textile display, 1972, Eaton's Department Store"][/caption] There are, it would seem, two kinds of novelty: the one that breaks from tradition, ushering in a new order, and the one that perpetuates the same under the guise of change. The latter, associated with fads and trends, marks the ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/03/novelty-and-the-commodity/ Surprising no one, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's new entry for the "Philosophy of Technology" severely under-reports contributions from the continental tradition. Heidegger, the Frankfurt School, and Latour are confined to parentheses, and folks like Deleuze, Benjamin(!), and Serres go completely unmentioned. This is no doubt to be expected -- ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/03/the-philosophy-of-technology-according-to-the-stanford-encyclopedia-of-philosophy/