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Reading suggestions for the summer
Let's read something together. Or more than one thing. This would be pleasant. Suggestions below?
(Envisioning a start time of mid-to-late May, to give folks the chance to finish their semesters & obtain books, if needed) -
Chromophobia, continuums, and interdisciplinarity
You guys, I feel like the parts of my brain that understand theory are atrophying. My new department is not open to theoretical discourse. I don't think they're actively hostile toward it, but there's no one to have conversations with about this stuff. Except for you, Theory Is Hot Crew. Our attempts at group reads don't seem to work out so ( Read more... ) -
Things I never thought I'd see, but are sort of awesome
Most recent issue of the Continental Philosophy Review: "Hegel and Deleuze on the metaphysical interpretation of the calculus".
Just wanted to share my delight with you all. -
Claude Lévi-Strauss comic in the Financial Times
By the authors of Logicomix: "Exclusive Claude Lévi-Strauss cartoon" -
theoretical Application
I put together this list more than a month ago, when perpetua54 advertised at academics_anon. Then I sat on it for awhile, until the early semester crazy faded and I now am just a bit more available to parry your challenges, quench your queries, and prostrate my intellect for your procrastinatory amusement. So have at it!
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Good night, sweet prince.
Claude Lévi-Strauss 1909-2009
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I am not at home, but my roommate informs me that the the Great Thumpkin has come in my absence. Oh great and powerful theory fairy, thank you for The Resistance to Theory and Cinema 2! Max, now I can find out if this is the one where he talks about bacon. -
Apparatus
I just read Agamben's What is an Apparatus.. It's a clearly written and deep archaeology of Foucault's notion of the apparatus or dispositif (who I understand was accustomed to being hoisted on his own petard and various other apparatuses after moving to California) that traces it back through Hegel to the early church's theological notion of " ( Read more... )