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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Bibliographies

Saturday, January 13, 2007

I enjoy reading bibliographies, but I hate writing them. Although I have a copy of EndNote, I’ve never really gotten into that program: I guess I didn’t like it in some way. I still make my bibliographies the old way: keeping note of what I cite or otherwise refer to. It’s time consuming; especially when [...]

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Musical Friday

Friday, January 12, 2007

Eschaton Edition In honor of the recent blog battles over the place of “progressive” Christianity and politics, I bring to you Musical Friday: Eschaton Edition. Beulah “Maroon Bible” [mp3] from the “Handsome Western States” album; Godspeed You Black Emperor! “East Hastings” [mp3 - large file; reduced bitrate] from “F#A#∞” album; Sebadoh “Jealous of Jesus” [mp3] [...]

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Cavafy: “Waiting for the Barbarians”

Friday, January 12, 2007

Constatine Cavafy’s poem, “Waiting for the Barbarians,” is below the fold. Evidently the inspiration for Coetzee’s novel of the same name.

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“Deleuze Camp” at Cardiff

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

“Deleuze Camp” A Summer School for postgraduate students interested in the work of Gilles Deleuze. Who? Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, Gregg Lambert, Paul Patton and  Daniel W. Smith. What? A hectic combination of lectures, seminars, and workshops on the work of Gilles Deleuze lead by some of the most important Deleuze scholars writing today. The [...]

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Nietzsche: BGE 257

Monday, January 8, 2007

Section 257 of Part Nine, “What is Noble?”, from Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. Every enhancement of the type ‘man’ has so far been the work of an aristocratic society – and it will be so again and again – a society that believes in the long ladder of an order of rank and differences [...]

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Musical Friday

Friday, January 5, 2007

The Return of Musical Friday Edition First, the official song of Mickey. Also, two songs that Mickey never heard, but would have liked: Built to Spill “Big Dipper” [mp3] Built to Spill “Car” [mp3] Both from their “There’s Nothing Wrong With Love” (1994) album. Not only did Mickey enjoy constellations, but he also liked dinosaurs [...]

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Benjamin: “The Destructive Character”

Friday, January 5, 2007

First in an occasional series: documents in barbarism. Walter Benjamin’s “The Destructive Character” below the fold.

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CFP: The Human Condition – Empire

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS October 31st, 2006 THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES Inaugural International Multidisciplinary Conference Conference Theme: EMPIRE May 17-19, 2007 Laurentian University, Georgian College Barrie, Ontario http://humancondition.wordpress.com/

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