I welcome comments on the below. It is a condensation of some ideas for my diss I have been playing with lately. Note this is not my diss! It is more a cut’n’pasted note to myself to enable me to think the argument for my diss. Some of the ideas catalysed in response to a […]
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Badiou and Zizek
Robin over at Irrational Numbers has superb posts and photographs on a recent conference (“Is the politics of truth still thinkable?”) that included Badiou and was organised by Zizek. My favourite line is one of Robin’s: Anyhow it did serve strikingly to take me right back to AntiOedipus: oh, how marxists and lacanians alike flinch […]
Blogtalk Paper Redux
Came across this blog that mentions my Blogtalk paper The Evental Potential of Blogs (the way it was written on the Blogtalk website and conference program as ‘Eventual Potential’ was wrong and so was my name, ‘one-n’ Glen, not ‘two-n’ Glenn! These minor errors have been rectified it seems, but the page is really slow […]
Baudrillard
Via theoria Baudrillard is interviewed for the New York Times Magazine: Some here feel that the study of the humanities at our universities has been damaged by the incursion of deconstruction and other French theories. That was the gift of the French. They gave Americans a language they did not need. It was like the […]
Giving Conference Papers and all that jazz
So the CSAA conference is in a few days. I think I might start writing my paper again (3rd time lucky!). Who is going? Who will be at Prefix? Hurrah! Yes. Yes. After all the online grumpiness I think it is time for a few soothing ales. Do I hear any seconders? Has anyone else […]