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Monthly Archives: February 2007

More on the End of Ideology

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Jon used to post a lot about his “post-hegemony” thesis – not so much anymore! Two more examples of the bankruptcy of ideology, this time from Canada: earlier in the week, the Prime Minister announced he would only accept candidates for federal appointments to the courts who would find the legislation his government passed to [...]

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On Bad Ways of Reading Schmitt

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Carl Schmitt, I think, is more often cited than read (the same is truthfully said about Bodin, by the way – why do we cite the major theorists of sovereignty and power and rule without ever reading them? the only edition of Bodin’s Six Books of the Commonwealth presently in print in a reasonable edition [...]

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New Issues of Baudrillard, Foucault and Zizek Studies

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The fourth issue of Foucault Studies, the first issue of Zizek Studies, and the first issue of the fourth volume of Baudrillard Studies are all available.

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Dissertation

Friday, February 16, 2007

Now that my proposal has been accepted, I need to begin working on the dissertation proper. My biggest fear heading into this project – the evidence being derived from my comprehensives and the proposal itself – is that the final product will become overwrought; that I’ll refuse to let it go. Last night I was [...]

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New Book: Julian Reid – “The Biopolitics of the War on Terror”

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The Biopolitics of the War on Terror
Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies

Julian Reid

Manchester University Press, Reappraising the Political Series (Jon Simons and Simon Tormey eds.)

December 2006

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Approved!

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Pending a footnote on savages and barbarians in the Scottish Enlightenment and a few minor editorial changes, my dissertation proposal has been approved. (That approval is, of course, subject to formal rubber-stamping at the Faculty level; I’ve never heard of the Faculty refusing a proposal, however.)

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The Politics of Idiocy

Monday, February 12, 2007

Some from Mark Featherstone’s “The End of History: Utopian Realism and the Politics of Idiocy” (best title on an article so far this year) in the current issue (March 2007, 7(1)) of the Journal of Classical Sociology. Admittedly, it isn’t entirely clear why Featherstone published the article here, but the journal has published solid work, [...]

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Musical Friday

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Noticing that I had not gotten around to posting Musical Friday yesterday, Mandos has kindly done one of his own, which can be found here – video, rather than MP3!

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Musical Friday

Friday, February 2, 2007

Admitting I Can Be Wrong Edition
A couple years ago, Sam Roberts became a minor star in Canada for some really shitty song and its accompanying video in which he looked like Jesus stuck in a dingy at sea. I didn’t particularly care for it, but the mainstream media thought that he was one of those [...]

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