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Monthly Archives: November 2007

(Self?-)Contradictions

2 Comments Posted by on November 30, 2007

I’m very pressed for time today, and am thinking very roughly… I just wanted to pull into greater prominence a small bit of the discussion going on with Andrew Montin in the discussion thread for the Modernities conference paper. While the full discussion is ranging across a number of interesting topics, what I wanted to [...]

Contradiction, Critical Theory, Fetish, Metatheory, Negations, Self-Reflexivity

What in the hell…

1 Comment Posted by on November 29, 2007

did you make me do, Nate? I’ll be blaming you when I’m not sleeping tonight… ;-P What I’ve done here is what I sometimes also do with L Magee (who will, no doubt, be glowering at me for working on this, rather than on Brandom…) – which is to provide your comments in full, in [...]

Abstraction, Conversations, Critical Theory, Critique, Dialogue, Events, Materialism, Metatheory, Negations, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity

IRCT?

1 Comment Posted by on November 29, 2007

Nate over at what in the hell… has just written a fantastic response to my conference talk from last week. He summarises the key points of my talk (which would have been much more interesting to hear, I think, if I had a similar skill with expression) and asks all sorts of questions that I [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory, Critique, Events, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity

Impure Thought

2 Comments Posted by on November 28, 2007

Wildly Parenthetical has posted an evocative brief reflection, taking up initially from a comment about writing, from Phaedrus, but leading to a set of questions about memory – and the relational possibilities for forms of subjectivity: Memory is thus presented as authentic, self-sufficient and almost a way of investing the thought within oneself rather than [...]

Dialogue, Links, Transformation, Writing

Fragment on the Working Day

2 Comments Posted by on November 27, 2007

To celebrate Labor’s victory in Saturday’s election, I thought it might be appropriate to post some rough thoughts on Capital, volume one, chapter 10 – The Working-Day. Note that, since I haven’t worked up to this chapter in the systematic reading I’ve been trundling through recently, these comments will be much more provisional than my [...]

Abstraction, Critical Theory, Fetish, Negations, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity, Social Movements

Modernities Conference Talk

27 Comments Posted by on November 22, 2007

Too tired to post anything substantive tonight. I’ve posted the conference talk to the Modernities: Radicalism, Reflexivity, Realities conference below the fold, for the curious. A few folks at the conference also asked where they could find the background material that lies behind the reading of Marx hinted at in the conference paper. In case [...]

Abstraction, Critical Theory, Critique, Drafts, Events, Negations, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity, Transformation

The Deserving Lost

3 Comments Posted by on November 21, 2007

So my Delegate Survival Kit has finally arrived. Sadly, its contents are disappointingly mundane: how to get from the airport to the conference, how to forage in and around Hobart (much mention of food, but not a single mention of coffee – I am deeply suspicious about the implications of this omission…). One provision did [...]

Events, Overheard

Modernities Conference Info

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 20, 2007

The programme and venue information for the Modernities: Radicalism, Reflexivity, Realities conference has finally been posted online. The event will be held at the Graduate Centre at Melbourne University (which, I am told, is in the Gryphon Gallery, 1888 Grattan St. Carlton, near the corner of Grattan and Swanston), on Thursday and Friday this week. [...]

Critical Theory, Events, Writing

Concentration

2 Comments Posted by on November 19, 2007

The other day, I received an out-of-the-blue apology from a friend. This deeply confused me, as I had no idea what had given them the impression they needed to apologise. I eventually worked out that they had passed by me on the street, said something to me, and I had walked past without acknowledging them [...]

Coffee, Writing

Lyric and Performance

8 Comments Posted by on November 4, 2007

Nate over at what in the hell… manages to capture pretty much every critique I’ve ever written of another theorist, in a post on immanent contradictions within musical forms: …most of my favorite songs have a pretty despairing content lyrically. It’s part of that sensibility I like of being trapped as opposed to lost. At [...]

Conversations, Critique, Self-Reflexivity, Transformation

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