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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 the following question: While speculative [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 and poststructuralist philosophies, which remain in large part derived from the Christian tradition. From Luther to Hegel [...]
Might the jingle be a very old thing, pre-dating radio and television? Here is Bakhtin trying to explain the type of orality featured in Rabelais through the medieval and early modern cris, or street cries: “The cris were loud advertisements called out by the Paris street vendors, and composed according to a certain versified form; [...]
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 any event, it makes [...]
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 “aesthetic” about political decisionism, a doctrine still fresh on our lips in the Obama era. [...]
“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 a ‘feeling in common,’ a [...]
Greg Mankiw, the well-known Harvard economist, mentioned in passing in a post today that as a freshman at Princeton more than thirty years ago he had the good fortune of taking an introductory philosophy course taught by Richard Rorty. The lessons learned have stuck with him. In a post honoring Rorty’s recent death, Mankiw recounted [...]
A brilliant case of analytic sophistry can be observed unfolding in the counterpetition to the petition to reform the American Philosophical Association’s current failure to exclude, or at least reprimand, academic institutions that explicitly their staff from engaging in “homosexual acts”. Basically, as the counterpetition puts it, accurately it would seem, The American Philosophical Association [...]
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