DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM. Materials for Students: Writing in the Social Sciences: Writing the Sociology Paper. Fascist Architecture in Thomas Pynchon. The Dark Joys of Social Control in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland "With his own private horrors further unfolded into an ideology of the mortal and uncontinued self, Brock came to visit, and strangely to comfort, in the half-lit hallways of the night, leaning in darkly in above her like any of the sleek raptors that decorate fascist architecture.
" Thomas Pynchon, Vineland. Proto-Facism in America - A Review. Proto-Fascism in America: Neoliberalism and the Demise of Democracy - A Review by Adam Fletcher "War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.
" - George Orwell in 1984. This book is an intelligent, defining account of our times. Moral spaces: rethinking ethics and ... A resounding challenge to the entrenched thinking and political inertia of international relations, this collection of essays overturns some basic assumptions about the relationship between ethics and international affairs -- and about the very nature of these terms. Rather than pursue the traditional search for overarching, supranational principles, the contributors focus on specific, historically situated encounters.
The result is a sustained consideration of the relationship between space, subjectivity, and ethics. Moral Spaces takes a position "against" theory, ethics, and justice -- a position opposing the orthodox renderings of these domains, with their ethical political effects. KUNSTHALLE GWANGJU - The Flower of May. Bicycling from Karl-Marx-Allee through the Brandenburger Gate – Meditating Berlin 1989 (video, 13 min, 2007) Rainer Ganahl was accidentally born in Austria in 1967 and has been living in New York since 1990 as Austrian and American citizen. His artistic work often deals with educational, political, ecological and linguistic issues. He studies foreign languages, reads books with people and rides bicycles in a crazy manner. He dreams frequently, loves his girlfriend Romana and wants to study and work in China. The artist rides against the traffic without holding the handlebar on a very poor bike.
The claims of literature: a Shoshana ... The Authenticity of Self: Conceptualization, Personal Experience, and Practice : Sociology Compass. The Authenticity of Self: Conceptualization, Personal Experience, and Practice By Phillip Vannini and Alexis Franzese , School of Communication and Culture, Royal Roads University Department of Sociology, Duke University ( September 2008 ) Section: Social Psychology & Family. On Being Authentic - Phenomenology - Philosophy.
Book Summary To thine own self be true.' From Polonius's words in Hamlet right up to Oprah, we are constantly urged to look within. Why is being authentic the ultimate aim in life for so many people, and why does it mean looking inside rather than out? Is it about finding the 'real' me, or something greater than me, even God? And should we welcome what we find? Butler - Precarious Life (2004) - Synopsis. Meeker - Utopia Limited: Response to Richard Rorty.
Badiou. The Cyberspace Real. Cyberspace Between Perversion and Trauma Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained by any symbolic Law or by any impossibility of some Real?
Giorgio Agamben on Hannah Arendt's "We Refugees" This is an essay by Giorgio Agamben on Hannah Arendt's writing "We Refugees" which was published in 1943, and in which she develops the idea of "the right to have rights.
" Giorgio Agamben. We Refugees. Translated by Michael Rocke. 1. What is to be Done? Alain Badiou and the Pre-Evental (Nick Srnicek) Badiou and the Pre-Evental the subject is taken up into the infinite procedure of fidelity to an event.More generally, the infinite is secularised and made banal by Cantor’smathematical treatment of the concept, thereby revealing that ever ysituation of being is infinite.
On the other hand, rather than a focus onhow linguistic and semiotic structures de-centre the subject, Badiou (likeJacques Lacan) argues that subjectivity punctures a hole in the system of constituted knowledge. The subject, rather than existing solely by virtueof its linguistic position, instead “in-exists,” thereby opening the spacefor it to construct a truth that necessarily evades knowledge.This new conception of the subject is, in turn, marshalled to-wards an explicitly militant politics of truths. Doxa. Alain Badiou - Being and Event - Reviewed by Peter Dews, University of Essex - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame. One way of locating Alain Badiou's magnum opus (first published in 1988, as L'être et l'évènement) on the large-scale map of modern philosophical endeavour would be to look back to mid-nineteenth century controversies over the superseding of religion.
In the early 1840s there occurred an impassioned -- and deeply symptomatic -- clash between Ludwig Feuerbach, one of the leading thinkers of the Left Hegelian movement, and Max Stirner, an obscure figure on the margins of Berlin's radical intelligentsia. The impact of Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity (1841) had stemmed from its pioneering of the view (adapted from Hegel) that religious consciousness is -- inherently -- an alienated form of consciousness. Feuerbach's 'genetic-critical' method allowed him to decode the notion of a transcendent deity as an abstract projection of human capacities.
To Stirner, however, Feuerbach's stance -- for all its proclaimed atheism -- still looked profoundly, pathetically religious. Philosophy. Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of ... Transnational Refugees: The Transformative Role of Art? Volume 9, No. 2, Art. 59 – May 2008 Transnational Refugees: The Transformative Role of Art?
Maggie O'Neill Abstract: This paper focuses upon the transformative role of art and the methodological approach of working with artists to conduct ethnographic research with refugees and asylum seekers. In exploring the space or hyphen between ethnography (sociology) and arts based practice (photos, installations, textual practice) I suggest that the combination of biography/narrative (ethnography) and art (mimesis) becomes a "potential space" for transformative possibilities. More specifically, drawing upon Walter BENJAMIN's (1992) The Storyteller I will discuss the methodological contribution of combining biography/narrative with art forms (ethno-mimesis) in creating a "potential space", a reflective/safe space for dialogue and narratives to emerge around the themes of transnational identities, home and belonging.
Table of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. Lack and Liberation in Self and Society: An Interview with David Loy. Vol. 1, No. 1 (2005)www.holosforum.org Professor David R.
# PALESTINE /// If Antigone was a Refugee / Zizek, Badiou and Aloni’s lecture yesterday for the Jenin Freedom Theater. Philosophers Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek and filmmaker Udi Aloni were invited yesterday in New York (peculiarly enough, hosted by St Paul’s Church in Manhattan which seems to have an interesting priest) by the famous Jenin Freedom Theater (located in Jenin’s refugee camp in the West Bank) in order to expose their thought about the current Palestinian situation.
It would be hard for me to make a coherent summary of those three talks and I am unfortunately lacking of time to do so; however I wanted to report several points which were evoked yesterday: ALAIN BADIOU: - The Palestinian weakness is and has to be an affirmation of existence - Under the name of Palestinian lies something universal - Palestinians are being presented but not represented UDI ALONI (who wanted to talk as an “Israeli Jew”): - It is very important to distinguish which art if the official art and which one is the resistive one. Like this: Refugee (film) A refugee is a person who has left their home country under threat of their life, and cannot or will not return there.
Refugee may also refer to: Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. Book Review. Becoming Deleuzian. Becoming Deleuzian. Semiotics. Semiotics frequently is seen as having important anthropological dimensions; for example, Umberto Eco proposes that every cultural phenomenon may be studied as communication.[2] Some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science, however. They examine areas belonging also to the life sciences – such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis).