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May Day.
Because this is a lay space (and we therefore do not share common epistemological grounds), a caveat to ward off the inevitable accusations from passerby that by having written this article I am 'advocating suicide' or somesuch: I am, of course, not. This is a very specific kind of discussion of a very specific kind of suicide - those that are ( Read more... ) -
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 3 March 1946 - 1 December 2011
The enduring possibility of justice inheres chiefly in one site, one habitus, the very body - if we dare so term it - of the political qua political: Freundschaft.
( Good-bye, my friend. Our friend. ) -
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As you may know, Brandon McInerney's case ended today in mistrial.
As you may know, the jury split on the charge, with 7 insisting on "voluntary manslaughter" and only 5 holding out for murder.
As you may know, the juridical definition of voluntary manslaughter is the unlawful taking of a human life in which the offender has no prior intent to kill ( Read more... ) -
Spin
The movements and thinkers grouped together under the general rubric "poststructuralism" are more diverse and, often, more at odds, than that lazy taxonomy would suggest, but what they all have in common in some way is the awareness that the fundamental gesture of hegemony is deceit.
I am going to keep this very straightforward and simply say that ( Read more... ) -
Because zeno's_arrow asked me to change it from a Friends-locked post to a public one.
And because I am strongly disinclined to deny him anything, and because we've all been on a train in the deep night, and we've all been tired, felt ineffectual in the face of everything, have forgotten, for a moment, the actual power of love, and what it would mean for all of us to be in it together. Moving this from vest pocket to billboard meant ( Read more... ) -
Obscene.
"We don’t think it’s in the interest, not only of the Smithsonian but of other federally supported cultural organizations, to pick fights."
Someone asked me this morning why I haven't remarked this week on Martin Sullivan's act of profound cowardice and incomprehensible dereliction of duty. I haven't remarked on it, not here, not there, because-- ( Read more... ) -
CFP
Biosemiotics conference down the street in hot hot June of next year.
Abstract deadline is November 30, 2010. Sure, technically that's today;
that's enough time for you to write one, innit?
dactylfoundation.org/
p.s. There are entirely too many hipsters at Dactyl now; if you go, prepare to be very annoyed.
p.p.s. If you go, could you stop by Lem's ( Read more... )
