It is impossible to under-estimate the exceptional contribution to political understanding provided in the writing of Judith Butler.
Read MoreWe need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees…
Read MoreJudith Butler discusses the gathering of crowds. About the Speaker: Judith Butler is an American philosopher.
Read MoreThe effort to revive and recover critical theory and its intellectual precedents has become more difficult at a time in which ‘critique’ is regularly denounced as negative, skeptical and anthropocentric
Read MoreIt is the best of times and it is the worst of times to declare oneself a feminist today. Presentations of that creature have been shape shifting for decades, though right now she suddenly seems more popular than ever…
Read MoreI can never go back and know what, as an infant, I first felt, what my original sensations were, nor can I recapture the initial experience of moving, of being touched
Read MoreA broader window into the corner of academia that is “theory” is provided by the defenders of Ronell. In May, some 50 prominent academics signed a pro-Ronell letter that was sent privately to NYU’s president and its provost.
Read MoreIf queer thinking were reduced to being the province of one particular thinker then its multiple localities would be worryingly narrowed and its localities would become merely parochial.
Read MoreWhether voiced in the first, second or third person, I take the stories that Masha Tupitsyn tells about her person to be selectively true.
Read MoreWhat we need is techne to attempt to approach, but we never will reach, as it were, since becoming is infinite – or eternal if we want to drop that bomb.
Read MoreEconomic mismanagement at the university and cuts from the State have created the most severe crisis in a generation that undermines the survival of some subjects in the arts and humanities.
Read MoreUntil very recently, I have avoided writing about Hamlet. With the occasional exception, I have also avoided teaching Shakespeare’s most famous play. I might have casually referred to this avoidance as “The Hamlet Effect.”
Read MoreIn postmodernity, localities, cities, nations, and all types of spaces and communities began to develop distinctive qualities to attract the flows of global capital. Postmodern culture was thus fully subsumed in the production and marketing of difference.
Read MoreI finally read Michael Walzer’s influential article on “Islamism and the Left,” after being told a number of times that I had inadvertently been echoing his opinion when I sided unconditionally with the caricaturists against the assassins who came to kill them.
Read MoreSure, #AllLivesMatter — but this is a call to remember basic human rights. No, #BlackLivesMatter is not the same thing, it is not a special interest within a larger existential frame. #BlackLivesMatter is not a reminder. It is a proclamation that enough is enough.
Read Moreby Russell Bennetts and Daniel Tutt Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He wrote The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing with his wife, Jamieson Webster. They see Hamlet as a play about nothing. We think they may have something there. Berfrois You’re a…
Read MoreThe different tools used to capture the frame and the wild variety in terms of image quality, which is the way films are remembered anyway, not always as pristine HD, but sometimes smudged and tangled up with our variances of mood. In The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes wrote that “the text chooses me, by a whole disposition of invisible screens, selective baffles.”
Read MoreGraphic by Michelle Jia. Image via Knoxville Museum of Art. by Ato Quayson I just finished reading a fascinating appetizer to John Carlin’s new book on Nelson Mandela, Knowing Mandela, and it set me wondering what might be the place of solitude in the narration of South African history. Some of the details of the…
Read MoreThe point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. ― Hannah Arendt Never work. ― Guy Debord Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love. ― Sigmund Freud The state produces hate speech. ― Judith Butler The Gulf War did not take place. ― Jean Baudrillard Make it new! ― Ezra Pound…
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