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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Glowing Review!

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Elsewhere, an admiring and jealous reader – no doubt jealous of my good looks, encyclopedic knowledge, and vast intellect – writes, “I [i.e., my admiring and jealous reader] post ‘tiresome tripe’? Well, of [sic] the RSS you go. [...] In this sense, Craig — despite being a stupid idiot of a pseudo-Foucauldian in desperate [...]

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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

As I’m sure everyone has heard by now, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe passed away over the weekend. Obituary – as the French, unlike the English speaking are prone to do (except in the case of battle-obits in the NYT), are prone to do – in Le Monde. If I could be so bold as to make the [...]

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Glass Ceiling in Canadian Universities

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Hardly a surprise, but female professors in Canada are underpaid in comparison to male professors at the same rank, they are hired at a lower rate (i.e., disproportionate to number of female doctorate graduates), and have a harder time securing promotions. Article “below the fold.”
This is on top of the annual audit of the Canadian [...]

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Musical Friday

Friday, January 26, 2007

The Ongoing Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted Edition
People continue to be excessively concerned with the end of the world – or at least excessively concerned with those who are excessively concerned with the end of the world. So, this week’s “Musical Friday” continues the “rapture,” “eschaton,” “apocalypse” tone.

The Unicorns – “I Don’t Wanna Die” [mp3], “Sea [...]

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State of the Union

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

I’m a little upset – but also relieved – that Boston Legal is being pre-empted for the State of the Union address. Do we really need to have an annual address? Has a President ever concluded that the Union is anything but “strong”? And, since Will Forte is no longer Bush on SNL, what’s the [...]

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Lecture: Gayatri Spivak

Monday, January 22, 2007

The Public Faces of Ethics

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Director, Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University

7:00 pm, February 8, 2007
Alumni Theatre
Carleton University, Ottawa
Co-sponsors: the Centre on Values and Ethics, the Office of the VP-Research, the Departments of English, Law, Political Science, and Philosophy, the College of the Humanities, and Cultural Mediations.
Biography
Gayatri [...]

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Dissertation Proposal

Sunday, January 21, 2007

One title page, two epigraphs (Walter Benjamin and Constantine Cavafy), five sections, seventeen footnotes, fourteen pages of prose, seven pages of bibliography itself divided into three sections… pending approval by committee (hopefully by email rather than meeting), my revised proposal is complete. New title: Savages, Barbarians and Citizen-Subjects. Forthcoming in late 2008 or early 2009. [...]

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CFP: “Cylons in America”

Friday, January 19, 2007

Call For Papers – Edited Collection
Cylons in America:
Critical Studies of Battlestar Galactica
Edited by C. W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter
(University of British Columbia)
Proposals are invited for an edited collection of original essays that examine BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, an award-winning science fiction television series presently in its third season. Since its debut as a 2003 miniseries, the current [...]

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CFP: “Foucault Studies” Issue 5

Friday, January 19, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS
We are delighted to announce the continuation of the Foucault Studies journal under the new editorial structure of Sverre Raffnsøe as editor in chief. At the same time, we welcome submissions for issue no. 5 of Foucault Studies, to be published September, 2007.
Foucault Studies is an electronic, international, peer-reviewed journal for the discussion [...]

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Derrida Help

Sunday, January 14, 2007

I’ve asked Matt and Adam and neither can confirm or dis-confirm my belief that Derrida said somewhere, “a culture has no origin.” Can anyone confirm or dis-confirm? If they can confirm, can they say where it is? Outside possibility that what I’m remembering is something like, “Derrida said ‘a culture has no origin.’” That wouldn’t [...]

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