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Monthly Archives: September 2006

(Re)Learning Languages

Monday, September 4, 2006

Because I’m a lazy and negligent idiot, I missed the registration period for the Alliance Francais for the current semester – which begins on September 5. This means I am forced to seek other alternatives: private tutor or self-directed study. Generally disliking the presence of others (which likely accounts for my problem in the first [...]

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Racism and the Norm

Sunday, September 3, 2006

A final chunk from Foucault’s ‘Society Must be Defended,’ where he, perhaps unwittingly, provides the question to which the “War on Terror” is the answer – that is, how does one exit the problem created by the Cold War policy of mutually assured destruction?

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Savages, Barbarians and Society

Saturday, September 2, 2006

Another excerpt from Foucault’s ‘Society Must be Defended’ lectures.

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Aristocratic Political Theory

Saturday, September 2, 2006

Classically, the political is thought in the forms of regimes referring to the number who rule: simply, the one, the few or the many. That is, respectively, royal power, aristocratic power and popular power. None have argued that in each type of regime that the other two are not present in some way (the reduction [...]

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CFP: Nietzsche, Power & Politics

Friday, September 1, 2006

THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELANDNietzsche, Power & Politics March 23 – 25, 2007 UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS CALL FOR PAPERS Nietzsche’s legacy for politics and political thought is profoundly ambivalent and controversial. A self-declared ‘antipolitical’ German, he condemned politics and all things political, yet he also called [...]

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