Theoria

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 [...]

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?

I’d hate to sound like a neo-liberal, but sometimes you just need to take responsibility for your actions and sometimes you’re just an asshole and not a psycho. The Associated Press reports today on a study by Emil Coccaro, “chairman of psychiatry at the University of Chicago’s medical school,” which has determined that sometimes men [...]

(Second in a series of short thoughts.) The discovery of society introduces a radical break into history. It is co-extensive with the destruction of what Michel Foucault calls the ‘classic episteme’ and the birth of the ‘modern episteme’; “it is a radical event that is distributed across the entire visible surface of knowledge.” Foucault’s periodization [...]