VersoBooks.com. Since Noam Chomsky’s "Fantasies" (July 21, 2013) present themselves as a reaction to my reply to his interview with a critical dismissal of my work, a brief clarification is needed.
What Chomsky refers to as my "reply" is a non-authorized and not accurate transcription of my answer to a question from the public during a recent debate at Birkbeck college in London. VersoBooks.com. Slavoj Žižek Publishes a Very Clearly Written Essay-Length Response to Chomsky’s “Brutal” Criticisms. Los Angeles Review of Books - John Gray’s Godless Mysticism: On "The Silence Of Animals" Triptych image: Mariechen Danz, "Ye (3)," 2006Photo: Andrea Huyoff.
Slavoj Žižek · Resistance Is Surrender: What to Do about Capitalism · LRB 15 November 2007. One of the clearest lessons of the last few decades is that capitalism is indestructible.
Marx compared it to a vampire, and one of the salient points of comparison now appears to be that vampires always rise up again after being stabbed to death. Even Mao’s attempt, in the Cultural Revolution, to wipe out the traces of capitalism, ended up in its triumphant return. Derrida: The Excluded Favorite by Emily Eakin. In May of 1951, at the age of twenty, Jacques Derrida took the entrance exams for the prestigious École Normale Supérieure a second time, having failed, as many students do, in his first attempt the previous year.
Fueled by amphetamines after a sleepless week, he choked on the written portion and turned in a blank sheet of paper. The same month, he was awarded a dismal 5 out of 20 on his qualifying exam for a license in philosophy. “The answers are brilliant in the very same way that they are obscure,” the examiner wrote, encapsulating a sentiment about Derrida’s work that has since become a commonplace: That Thing that You Do: Comment on Joseph Massad’s “Empire of Sexuality” Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology? Ideology means many things, but one of them is the difference between who gets the maximum benefit of the doubt, and who gets the presumption of guilt.
I know what I see, when I see this clip: I see a law professor shoving a student—shouting “Get away from my space, you prick”—making more threatening movements, attempting to provoke a fight verbally, and grabbing a student’s cell phone out of her hand. I see the student who was pushed and threatened staying calm and passive, even trying to defuse the situation. I see the student whose phone was taken from her hands defending herself verbally and no more.
A Living Death : THE FUTURE LASTS FOREVER: A Memoir, By Louis Althusser . Translated by Richard Veasey . Introduction by Douglas Johnson; Editors' foreword by Olivier Corpet and Yann Moulier Boutang (The New Press: $25; 365 pp.) The Interpassive Subject. YouTubing Theory. Theory is usually associated with a one-to-one indirect relationship based on reading and absence.
One person reads a book by another person, a person who is not present. The question of how to develop this into a different, more dynamic type of relationship is a valid and difficult question. The usual answer, and not only in the art field, is to stage a conference and hope for the best. A conference is usually marked by an impossible promise of open discussion and participation, so it’s very easy to dismiss conferences but very difficult to find better solutions. Derrida, Jacques Derrida (by Pablo Secca) Jacques Derrida was one of the most well known twentieth century philosophers.
He was also one of the most prolific. Distancing himself from the various philosophical movements and traditions that preceded him on the French intellectual scene (phenomenology, existentialism, and structuralism), he developed a strategy called “deconstruction” in the mid 1960s. Although not purely negative, deconstruction is primarily concerned with something tantamount to a critique of the Western philosophical tradition. Deconstruction is generally presented via an analysis of specific texts. Deconstruction has at least two aspects: literary and philosophical. Chapati Mystery. [What precisely is a response to the drones?
Recently Teju Cole introduced drones in first lines of well-known fiction works and got more tweets than any of the current drone strikes. Almost simultaneously, Himanshu Suri (aka HEEMS) released the video of his "Soup Boys" single which feature drones. Deconstructing Afghanistan - By John Arquilla. After more than a decade of nation-building in Afghanistan, with at best mixed results, perhaps it is time to take an opposite tack: "deconstructing" that sad land.
This would entail some very bold policy shifts, beginning with a willingness to see our very "structures of thought come undone," as Jacques Derrida, the great philosopher of deconstruction, once described the first step in the process. In practical terms, this would mean challenging the guiding notion of democratization that has, thus far, cost us and our allies several thousand casualties and about a trillion dollars -- to little effect. The key to deconstruction is to search out the inherent contradiction that lies at the heart of virtually every strong belief. As another leading theorist of deconstruction, Paul de Man, once put the matter, the central task is to "undo assertions...by means of their very own elements.
" Arens: CL382: Kristeva and Žižek Read Lacan. V For Vile. At first, I was nervous.
I am not a hater by nature; I generally consider myself an enthusiast. How could I, then, participate in this Festival of Hate? Is there a way to responsibly choose something that’s worth hating on? Perhaps, I thought, I should just refuse to participate all together. Noah asked me to pick my candidate for Worst Comic Of All Time. There were several candidates that leapt to mind, but were unable to fulfill all four. From “hyper” to “in”: on visibility. Several weeks ago, I wrote about the “fear of being missed (FOBM).” Drawing - Art. Pen and ink, marker and crayon on paper. Marc has begun to take commissions to re-draw any of the images in this series. All drawings will be completed with sakura pigment ink gel pens and Windsor Newton watercolour on acid free paper. The drawings are 9 x 12 inches (23 x 30.5 cm). The number of re-drawings for each original image in the series will be limited to 5. Each commissioned piece will be numbered and signed. For prices, shipping, and placing orders, please visit the Happy Sleepy Art and Toy Shop on Etsy or send a message on the contact page.
If you have purchased a drawing on Etsy select your choice of images from any on the page. Strong and Mild Digital Dualism. Mo melanin mo problems: tightening & whitening. Redefining the Right Wing. An Interview with George Scialabba. Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias. War Games & War Stories: Part I – Black/white/gray all over.
A version of this essay was delivered at the military sociology miniconference at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, 2011. Hipsters and Low-Tech. ‘Salientification, Explicitization, Deobscuration’: Looking for Less-Awkward Words. Balibarism!