Badiou, Being And Event... It's nuts!

I muddled over the second meditation during lunch. It deals with non-being in Plato's Parmenides. Those of you who know a thing or two about ancient Greek philosophy can probably already smell the aroma of cognition-twisting that I'm about to reveal. For those of you who know nothing about Plato's P: it is the ( Read more... )

The Online Debate we're using as part of the assessment for this moral philosophy course seems to be working really well. But I from time to time I have ferociously intervened. And this morning I'm being intellectually violent again. Muahahaha.

The student posted a reply to one of my posts: First of all, I'm not sure I understand your post. But I ( Read more... )

As thefuriouscynic was flaunting her participation in this, I thought it might be nice to tap all you cinephiles on the shoulder and point out how sometimes theory COMES TRUE! It's especially dreadful when it's ideology-critique ( Read more... )

The readings for the first two weeks are down right depressing. A motto like "give up, but keep on going anyway!" seems quite appropriate.
( a sketch: Relativism, Absolutism, and Religion in Ethics )

Has anyone else seen the X-Play clip on the Mii? It's too damn hilarious for words... But I can't share it because it's in the Pile and not appearing in the podcast on iTunes.

The details are:
X-Play: Tough To Be Mii
2/14/2007

Now go and get angsty with your Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, etc!*
~Niveau

*it's obvious I' ( Read more... )

Okay, my recent impromptu chat with Paul has just revealed a killer teaching load through March this year. Yippee ( 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... )

Impending Penguin release from William Gibson: Spook CountryI'm a bit annoyed that I haven't been able to incorporate Gibson's spec fic into my thesis more strongly. Early on it seemed like I could use the work of this particular 'god father of cyberpunk' to enhance and demonstrate how we deal with technology in its socio-political dimensions. Now ( Read more... )

Somebody let the birthday monkey out of the bag again did they illdrinn? Hehe, enjoy the electro-raver monkeys with zombie bat wings for a while longer m'kay ;)

Oh such a morning. Thanks for the Christmas card bragi_gwydion, but I need to know one thing: does the angel monument have to have its wings bound like that for safety purposes? It seems no where near your ( Read more... )

Get along and catch Prof Badiou if you can. He's one of my favourite speakers. They man has a wicked sense of humour too.

ALAIN BADIOU

LACANIAN INK EVENTS

for the launching of LACANIAN INK 28 - Profane Illuminations
http://www.lacan.com/cover28.htm"Truth Art as a place for politics without pace ( Read more... )