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Monthly Archives: August 2007

In Process [Updated]

3 Comments Posted by on August 14, 2007

Just so Alexei doesn’t feel too different, I thought I should point to the current Now-Times (hmmm – can one have past Now-Times?) post on self-reflexivity “self-referential, performative actualization” that continues the cross-blog discussion on self-reflexivity begun at Larval Subjects, and that also responds to Gabriel Gottlieb’s reflections (non-reflexive reflections?) on Fichte over at Self [...]

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

Self-Reflexivity Beyond the Self

11 Comments Posted by on August 13, 2007

So of course I’ve been thinking about the recent conversations on self-reflexivity, at Larval Subjects and Now-Times – and, specifically, thinking about my own tendency to take a term that has quite a long-standing history (as the Now-Times’ post so elegantly demonstrated) and use the term in a somewhat perverse and idiosyncratic way. Now-Times pointed [...]

Conversations, Self-Reflexivity

Mirror Mirror

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 12, 2007

Alexei from Now-Times has written an extraordinary piece On the Concept of Reflection, which builds on elements from the recent discussion of self-reflexivity over at Larval Subjects. To be honest, at the moment I’m finding Alexei’s piece too perfect to respond to – I seriously doubt I have anything useful to add, but want at [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory, Self-Reflexivity

Nuncstans

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 9, 2007

So I’ve been feeling guilty at not having gotten back to my off and on commentary on Hegel’s Phenomenology. I expect this guilt to increase, as I’ve now somehow managed to get myself invited to present a paper on the subject of “Hegel and Solidarity”. Given that I’ve accepted, this suggests I should perhaps do [...]

Critical Theory, Events, Links, Philosophy of History, Reading Group

Free Associations

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 8, 2007

Sinthome from Larval Subjects has written a beautiful reflection on self-reflexivity and the formation of collectives, beginning with the lovely multi-layered play on words in its title (free associations indeed), organised around a series of reflections on Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, and ranging both widely and masterfully through concepts from critical philosophy, social and [...]

Conversations, Self-Reflexivity, Social Movements, Transformation

Turning the Tables

3 Comments Posted by on August 7, 2007

Lumpenprofessoriat has tugged on some of the threads from my recent post on Devaluing Labour. Lumpenprof raises explicitly one of the issues that was in the back of my mind when I wrote the original post – the common perception that the rise of information and communications technologies has entailed a fundamental transformation in the [...]

Fetish, Links, Materialism, Political Economy, Technology

Ticket Insurance

2 Comments Posted by on August 2, 2007

Via Marginal Revolution – perhaps Russ should use this concept in his Transport Planning course? “My favourite ticketing system was in Mumbai, India,” Kim enthuses. “No one actually buys a ticket, but you can buy ‘ticket insurance’ from private entrepreneurs who work at the entrance of the station. The ‘ticket insurance’ is about half the [...]

City Planning, Links

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