The Sense of Being(-)With Jean-Luc Nancy – Ignaas Devisch
The 'passivity' of language or thought is an act; it forms an active power that requires strength, work; effort and rigor. But because it does not pass over the limit,…
Textual Communities: Nancy, Blanchot, Derrida – Kuisma Korhonen
You find yourself in a dark room with a table, a chair, and a small circle of candlelight. On the table lies an open book. You are facing the text,…
Community: Commme-un? Dorota Glowacka
In recent years, the notion of community has emerged as an important but also contested field of enquiry. The 'new' discourse of community has challenged the understanding of community as…
Can Desire Go On Without A Body? Pornographic Exchange and the Death of the Sun
Dougal Phillips 'While we talk, the sun is getting older' Jean-François Lyotard) Introduction One statistic among many: Every day there are 68 million search engine requests for pornographic material, making…
Jacques Rancière (2004) The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible
Trans. and introd. Gabriel Rockhill. London and New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-7067-X. Sean Sayers Jacques Rancière is one of the most important and original contemporary French philosophers. This book provides…
Dianne Chisholm (2004) Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN: 0816644047. Catharina Landström In Queer Constellations (2004) Dianne Chisholm extends the territory of literary scholarship beyond the analysis of writing. She develops theory, reconfigures…
Vincent Mosco (2004) The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace.
Cambridge and London: MIT Press. ISBN: 026213439X Bernadette Wegenstein The Digital Sublime is a useful book for those of us semioticians who are interested in understanding the discourse universe around and…
Matthew Wilkens (ed.) (2005) ‘The Philosophy of Alain Badiou’, Polygraph 17
ISSN 1533-9793 Encountering Badiou Benjamin Noys 'While dialogues are commonplace, encounters are rare'. (Zizek, 2004: xi) In his book on Deleuze Alain Badiou notes, with obvious approval, that Deleuze 'felt…
Colin Davis (2004) After Poststructuralism: Reading, Stories and Theory.
London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-31609-X. Reading Remains Iain Morland '"My death, is it possible?" asked the late philosopher Jacques Derrida in his book Aporias', reported the web log Low Culture (2004);…
Josh Cohen (2003) Interrupting Auschwitz: Art, Religion, Philosophy.
New York and London: Continuum. ISBN 0 8264 5552 2. Dorota Glowacka Shortly after the first images from the Nazi death camps shocked the Western world into moral stupor, political…
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