On Saturday night we went to the Crosstown Eating House for dinner with my mum and sister and, I have to say, it was a very enjoyable experience. Good food. Will return ( Read more... )

The university has agreed to let me run a philosophy school over the winter break: two intensive weeks of contemporary philosophy and popular culture! It's quite a coup because the whole thing is my baby and could be the new regularly appearing course in the Contemporary Culture and Society major (basically sociology/philosophy/political economy) ( Read more... )

Enjoying Italian Studies conference... Back in gear after the weekend.

~Niveau

This morning SH and I had coffee with an old highschool friend, Mez, at Aromas. Mez was always a bigger girl at school, but she's really trimmed down and looks gorgeous. She's quite a friendly dame too, and off to Perisha soon to break some arms hearts on the ski slopes ( Read more... )

Okay, I want to get Giorgio Agamben out here next year for a speaking tour. Does anyone know if Prof Agamben is anywhere near the southern hemisphere in 2008?

~Niv

Of course all you Z-man-philes have heard of this already, but for the rest of the audience:

'Materialism Today' Conference 22nd & 23rd June Room B34 Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX ( Read more... )

While my German isn't crash hot, I did manage to nut out most of what this conference outline says (after I dug around and found my German/English dictionary): and I like it!

Einladung zu Beiträgen ( Read more... )

from Bruce Stirling

"This is the moment for data visualization! Regular people are paying attention to this sort of thing ( Read more... )

The back-cover of this Spinoza volumes says: This is a permanent book. The book is made from paper, has a sewn spine, and isn't terribly big. I'm just wondering if they found some way to anoint it with a suitable sacrament for an immortal tome. You could give it the last rights just to tease the remark on the cover.

( Some musings on the Amor intellectualis Dei of Spinoza )

For a panel to be proposed for the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, we invite proposals for presentations interrogating ( Read more... )