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Monthly Archives: October 2007

“Mainstreaming” Academic Blogging

16 Comments Posted by on October 30, 2007

I have all kinds of responses owing to various people – apologies for this: I’m booked absolutely to the gills this week, conducting field interviews for a community development project, and then involved in an annual planning process within my university. I really do want to pick up on the various hanging threads, but may [...]

Blogging, Professional Life, Writing

Habermas and Brandom, Facts and Norms

3 Comments Posted by on October 29, 2007

Update: This piece has subsequently been revised into a conference paper. The revised version is available online, and the comments section there includes a very good discussion and debate about the conference paper. We recommend that readers interested in this piece, consult the revised version and the subsequent discussion to see the further development of [...]

Critical Theory, Dialogue, Events, Linguistics, Reading Group

Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: The Universal as Particular

9 Comments Posted by on October 28, 2007

I’ve spent a great deal of time over the past couple of days trying to distil my professional and intellectual biographies down into a coherent (?) written narrative, which has somewhat thrown me out of the series on the first chapter of Capital. Let’s see if I can ease my way back in, through a [...]

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

Do You Believe in Me?

7 Comments Posted by on October 25, 2007

Via Acephalous: my author function has been analysed! Critical Theory and the Academy, a course blog that provides the nucleus for several student blogs that explore major themes in critical theory, has assigned the following task this week: First, you will discuss a specific point in Barthes’s “The Death of the Author” or Foucault’s “What [...]

Blogging, Links, Professional Life

At Your Service

6 Comments Posted by on October 25, 2007

My schedule is very compressed at the moment, and I have no time for serious writing, but I’ve been meaning for the past couple of days to post a pointer to a discussion going on over at Nate’s what in the hell…, sparked by Nate’s dissatisfaction with Negri’s claim that recent transformations in the nature [...]

Conversations, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity

Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: Random Metatheory

6 Comments Posted by on October 24, 2007

My previous post in the series on the first chapter of Capital has prompted a nice set of meta-theoretical questions from Nate, revolving loosely around the question of whether some of my formulations suggest the need to breach the immanent frame of the analysis. This discussion is still continuing in the comments, but some of [...]

Abstraction, Conversations, Critical Theory, Critique, Fetish, Materialism, Metatheory, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity, Social Movements

Don’t Panic

9 Comments Posted by on October 22, 2007

I just received what identifies itself as a “Vital Update” from a conference I’m due to attend. Among other things, the update tells me: “We will also have a “Delegates Survival Kit” ready for you very soon.” I’m not sure I’ve ever received a “Delegates Survival Kit” for a conference. Wondering a bit what I’ve [...]

Events, Overheard

Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: Relativism, Absolutes, and the Present as History

11 Comments Posted by on October 21, 2007

Okay. Back to Capital. The third section of the first chapter. When I was last discussing this section, I had just finished an analysis of the section on the relative form (3.A.2), which would suggest that I should perhaps pick up with the subsequent section on the equivalent form. But of course that would be [...]

Abstraction, Critical Theory, Fetish, Materialism, Metatheory, Negations, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity

Potentials

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 20, 2007

A few days late, as this was posted while I was away at the conference, but I wanted to draw attention to a fantastic post from Nick at the accursed share, which explores the complexities of grasping potentials for political change within a philosophy of immanence. The full post covers a great deal of ground, [...]

Critical Theory, Links, Transformation

Summer Philosophy in Melbourne

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 19, 2007

I am utterly wiped out at the moment – head full of static and completely unable to write anything serious (or, for that matter, even to respond to Claude’s meme [Claude, I found myself looking at it, and literally going, "fantasy... what's the title of a piece of fantasy I liked... hmm... maybe the next [...]

Critical Theory, Events, Links

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