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Monthly Archives: October 2006

Claude Lefort Special Issue of Thesis Eleven

Monday, October 16, 2006

The highly anticipated – for me, anyway – special issue on Claude Lefort in Thesis Eleven is now available to those with access to a decent library, SAGE online, or unscrupulous sorts who freely violate copyrights on behalf of others. I’ll comment on the papers anon, but, for now, the table of contents for the [...]

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Battlestar Galactica Comments

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Battlestar Galactica is, apparently, a favourite television show of the denizens of the so-called “blogosphere” – especially among American “liberals” and the “theoretical” left. The latter of which I am, apparently, a member. Consequently, it seems imperative that I catch up on the best show taking place in space since Firefly. (Another show I didn’t [...]

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Musical Friday

Friday, October 13, 2006

Sloan covering Eric’s Trip “Stove” and “Smother” [mp3] Eric’s Trip covering Sloan’s “Laying Blame” [mp3] And the originals of each (Eric’s Trip – “Stove” and “Blue Sky for Julie/Smother“; Sloan – “Laying Blame” [forthcoming - Thanks, Blythe - removed: some jackass, rather than downloading the file, is listening to it about a thousand times; I'm [...]

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Reflections on Political Theology

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Used in a rather imprecise – and, indeed, uninteresting – sense, society has two possible “origins” or “sources;” the “theological/mythical” and the “political.” That is, a transcendent or an immanent “source.” Analytically, these appear as two different “sources,” but, in actuality they are one: what we might call the “theologico-political” or the “politico-theological.” (Are these [...]

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Forgotten Classics

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Are there any books that you wished more people in your own area of study or, indeed, in other areas of study too (insofar as “academics” are concerned), were more widely read? It is my personal view that the world would be well-serviced if more people took the time to read Durkheim generally and his [...]

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Musical Friday

Friday, October 6, 2006

Kim Mitchell “Easy to Tame” [mp3 - removed: some jackass, rather than downloading the file, is listening to it about a thousand times; I’m not paying for that.] from “Shaking Like a Human Being” Kim Mitchell‘s 1986 album, “Shaking Like A Human Being,” would eventually go triple platinum (presumably only in Canada – but it’d [...]

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Further Apologies

Thursday, October 5, 2006

Commenting on the virtues of the recently (and ironically or appropriately) deceased Helen Chenoweth at Crooked Timber, Scott McLemee suggests if anyone deserves the appellation “wingut,” it is the former Representative Chenoweth. The subsequent comments were of two sorts: compiling evidence of just how insane Chenoweth was and the standard “don’t call people names because [...]

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With apologies to the readership…

Monday, October 2, 2006

Yawn, yawn and, oh, yeah, yawn. SEK comes across as particularly pathetic in the latter – at least our own Matt Christie fights his own battles. On a more interesting note, does anyone know why Jodi Dean’s book doesn’t ship in paperback in Canada until January 3, 2007?

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Copyright

Sunday, October 1, 2006

For the most part, copyright is arcane and uninteresting to me. Yet, I found myself browsing an article by Siva Vaidhyanathan in the Columbia Journalism Review entitled “Copyright Jungle,” on Google’s desire to digitize everything ever written. The following stuck out to me – not as an argument in favour of copyright law, but as [...]

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