Archive for September, 2008
Francois Cusset’s recently translated book, French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States, has been reviewed in the NDPR by Ethan Kleinberg.
Kleinberg is appreciative (yet with a dash of the critical) – as is expected in any good review. He’s disappointed with the lack of substantial analysis, [...]
Notes for the coming community reflects on the discipline of academia… brilliantly written. Among his reflections, this on Agamben:
…when all is said and done, people will come to realize that today’s greatest thinker is a man who never studied in graduate school; a man who deems his short formal studies as worthless; a man [...]
When we talk about things – about anything in actual fact – we normally give them, whether implicitly or explicitly a kind of history. We imply the genesis of this or that, its heritage and kinship. It’s how we make sense of the world, we relate things to each other in a web [...]
Phew! That’s one beefy chapter. I finished a draft of a chapter last week – it’s the first I’d done, and although I’m pretty sure it fill morph at some future point, the bones are there. Crazily though, it weighed in at about 33,000 words. Hmmmmm.
Perhaps a touch on the weighty side for a journal [...]
