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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Spring Research Carnival

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on August 31, 2007

So that presentation on blogging that I mentioned a couple of weeks back, which was originally tentatively scheduled for today, has now been repackaged into something called the “Spring Research Carnival” – a set of events that will take place over the next few months, covering a range of topics (most of which are more [...]

Blogging, Events

Quick Reflexes

17 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on August 29, 2007

So I’ve finally finished my homework (or, as the case may be, other people’s homework that I’ve been marking), and can come out to play – only briefly, unfortunately, as today is a very heavy teaching day for me. I wanted, though, at least to begin to take up Joseph Kugelmass’ post on self-reflexivity (with [...]

Conversations, Critique, Self-Reflexivity, Transformation

Reflex Reflux

1 Comment Posted by N Pepperell on August 28, 2007

Just a very quick note, as I’m running and can’t comment substantively until later, that Joseph Kugelmass has picked up on the cross-blog discussion on self-reflexivity, with cross posts at The Kugelmass Episodes and The Valve that ask whether reflexive thought is possible – and whether such thought is really required for emancipatory transformation. Sinthome [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory, Self-Reflexivity, Transformation

Circulating Perspectives

3 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on August 26, 2007

Marx begins his discussion of the general formula for capital with an apparently strange distinction, between “money that is money only, and money that is capital”. In Marx’s account, money that “is money only”, is money in its role as a medium of exchange in a circuit in which commodity producers sell their commodities in [...]

Critique, Negations, Political Economy

Conferences without Confidence

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on August 24, 2007

So I was looking for information on a conference I might want to attend next year, and somehow stumbled across this rather self-effacing announcement for a completely unrelated event. Maybe it’s just me, but these folks sound like they’re meeting to decide whether to pack it all in, give up, and disband their field: (Re)Discovering [...]

Overheard

Reflexive Connections

7 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on August 20, 2007

Tom from Grundlegung has returned from much too long an absence (I’ve missed your voice around these parts!), to join the ongoing discussion of self-reflexivity. Tom points to some of the connections between the two senses of self-reflexivity the rest of us have been trying to distinguish during this conversation. I’m glad someone has written [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory, Critique, Self-Reflexivity

A Friend in Need

6 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on August 19, 2007

Naive netiquette question. I have a Facebook account, which I don’t use (I created it some months back for some specific reason I have now forgotten, but which didn’t involve an intention of using the account actively for the near future). I occasionally glance in to look at some of the discussions about my university, [...]

Blogging, Procrastination, Professional Life

The Ghost in the Machine

4 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on August 17, 2007

I had been trying to wait until I was over this cold to respond to the fantastic post over at Lumpenprofessoriat on Digital Fetishism. The cold refuses to go, and I don’t want to keep waiting for that apocryphal moment when the conditions are ripe for healthy posting – so up with the post, minus [...]

Conversations, Fetish, Political Economy, Technology

Online Tools for Building Research Networks

1 Comment Posted by N Pepperell on August 17, 2007

So I’ve been asked, somewhat at the last minute, to present as part of a panel on “Online Tools for Building Research Networks”. Specifically, I’ve been asked to speak on “Blogging about Research”. Hmm… is that what I do here? The other panellists won’t be bloggers (the intention of the event is to provide an [...]

Blogging, Events

Blind Process and Critical Vision

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on August 15, 2007

So, since today is a horrific day teaching, and I’m unlikely to find time to write anything here, another pointer to Now-Times, where the discussion on self-reflexivity continues to unfold, in two main posts (linked here previously, but just to mention that the discussion in both is still “live”). I also wanted to cross-post another [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory, Materialism, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity, Transformation

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