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    • Michelle Foucault

      You can find here the latest iteration of quotes from a philosopher cleverly juxtaposed with incongruous pictures. I think maybe that philosophers divide into those whose prose works well for this kind of thing and those for whom it doesn't. Anything even slightly portentous works, and if you are skilfull in choice of images, I think…

    • S*%# Philosophy Professors Say (hat-tip Joshua Heller w.r.t. The Tubes)

      < Justin Weinberg has a nice post and discussion at the dailynous of the old story that people on airplanes ask us for our sayings (it's variously attributed, twenty-five or so years ago Charles Hartshorne told me it happened to him). It was kind of a cool synchronicity that on the same day I read…

    • Ferraris on Strawson and a Heidegger on Kant

      Nice NDPR review here by Riccardo Pozzo of Maurizio Ferraris' Goodbye Kant!: What Still Stands of the Critique of Pure Reason. According to Pozzo, the book is actually a best-seller in Italy, which is pretty cool. There's also this very funny passage (have to read it through to the end): For Ferraris, given that "ontology includes…

    • Adam Kotsko provides helpful feedback to Derrida

      This is very funny. In the spirit of Derrida responding to Searle, I'll just go ahead and fully exerpt Kotsko's annotated version of the first two paragraphs of "Structure, Sign, and Play:" Perhaps [weasel-word!] something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an “event,” if this loaded word [loaded…

    • SPEP program on-line

      The program for the up and coming SPEP conference in New Orleans* is on-line here. Compared to the last two years, Badiou and German Idealism are very well represented this year. Cool stuff!  I'm pouring a little bit of rum** on the ground every night in the hope that it will propitiate whatever gods might have some…

    • Cool conference on analytical existentialism

      I'm breaking our policy* of not posting calls for papers for three reasons: (1) two friends of the blog are involved in this, (2) the topic concerns things we've blogged about at newapps before, and (3) crossover material is part of this blog's raison d'etre (prounounce that like Joe Bob Briggs would). The department of…

    • Types of men that can’t sit still

      Leg bouncers – Tend to bounce at a rhythm of around ten times per second, achieved by pressing and releasing the forward part of the metatarsals on the floor while the calcaneus remains consistently raised. Foot bouncers – Legs are crossed, and the tallus of the raised foot is held still, while the phalanges move…

    • Yisroel Rabon – Pain

      Do you know the pain of women you sometimes see flying on carts with bottles of vitriol in fingers that burn? Do you know the sorrow of strong wild madmen, when hoses of water stream on their bare necks? Do you know the hatred to life of people dying with a rope on their neck…

    • Yehuda Amichai – The Diameter of the Bomb

      The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from,…

    • Happy Birthday, Paul’s Boutique! (hat tip Joshua Heller)

      Twenty five years ago today, the last great example of an artform destroyed by the Disney copywrite regime.The band members are still being sued for the sampling. I was going to post one of the videos from the album, but MCA would have preferred the video at right.