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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Another Weekend in Film

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

This weekend too was characterized by a lot of bad movies. For instance,
Silent Hill – Normally we really like movies based upon video games. What could be stupider? Here’s a possible answer: this movie. We had absolutely no clue what was going on. The movie started out dumb and generic (girl has nightmares suggesting underlying [...]

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Reviewing The History of Madness

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Andrew Scull’s “fair and balanced” review of the new translation of Michel Foucault’s History of Madness has been making the rounds. Those who find fair and balanced reviews to be little more than displays of pettiness and resentiment may want to look at Colin Gordon’s review, which, it seems, has been read by next to [...]

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The Weekend in Film

Monday, March 19, 2007

Rather that producing work over the weekend (it was my intention to write my final lecture on Agamben and Butler), we ended up watching a bunch of movies. Reviews are not in chronological order:
Running With Scissors – The advertisements seemed to suggest that it was (1) funny and (2) possibly in the vein of Wes [...]

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‘American’ Sociology

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

For those who – quite understandably – can’t be bothered to read the Canadian Journal of Sociology, the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, and the official newsletter of the Canadian Sociology Association, Society, may not know that the disciplinary boundaries of Canadian sociology, as well as the meaning of practicing sociology qua sociologist, has [...]

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Baudrillard is Dead

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Jean Baudrillard passed away today at age 77. International Herald Tribune, Nouvel Observateur, New York Times. Discussion, perhaps, at Long Sunday.

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Hobbes

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Can any of my theologically inclined colleagues tell me if the last half of the Leviathan has any lasting importance and, thus, should be read? While it appears to be largely about “political theology,” I’m hesitant to read a hundred and fifty pages on the Christian commonwealth and another hundred and fifty pages on the [...]

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Reading (and some Writing)

Thursday, March 1, 2007

I have been interested in the question of reading – how to read; the politics (as it were) of reading; why some texts conjure certain sorts of readings. The texts that bring the strangest readings are the texts that produce high degrees of affect in their readers – Thomas Hobbes, Benedict de Spinoza, Karl Marx, [...]

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