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Monthly Archives: June 2008

That Philosophy Woman

11 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on June 30, 2008

Someone just wandered past as I sat in my coffee shop, laptop at the ready, works by Derrida and Spivak scattered around. They did a quick double-take, walked over to my table, and burst out: “Hey! Are you that philosophy woman?” Is there supposed to be only one of us?

Overheard, Professional Life

Hand Waving

11 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on June 29, 2008

So just to lob one more random association into the cross-blog discussion of whose hands Derrida is amputating when he edits the passage in which Marx christens the fetish. We’ve discussed the possibility that these are Marx’s hands and Heidegger’s hands – what about Husserl’s? From On Touching (2005 pp.179-180): This last example (the visible [...]

Conversations

Weekend Relations

2 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on June 29, 2008

My coffee shop has recently begun opening on weekends.

Coffee, Overheard, Procrastination

Elsewheres

4 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on June 28, 2008

I’ve banned myself from substantive writing until I finish the remnants of my marking, but wanted to point to interesting things happening elsewhere. First, for those who haven’t seen, Praxis is heading into blogging hiatus – I suspect very much not in order to enable greater laziness, as claimed. A medium-term blog holiday, Praxis suggests [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory, Fetish, Marxes, Philosophy of History, Political Economy

The Exorcism of the Exorcism

17 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on June 25, 2008

So, since Praxis and I hatched this scheme of writing a collaborative piece on Derrida’s Specters of Marx, all sorts of fantastic conversations and debates around the work have cropped up around the blogosphere. Unfortunately, I’ve been either been preparing to be away, or actually away, while most of these discussions unfolded, meaning that I’m [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory, Fetish, Marxes, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Religion, Technology, Transformation, Writing

The Monstrous Body of Capital

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on June 25, 2008

Continuing my process of catching up on things that have been written while I was away, I wanted to post a pointer to Steven Shaviro’s fantastic series of reflections on Capital and contemporary Marxism over at The Pinocchio Theory. The first post introduces the problematic: Of course, there is a good reason why recent Marxist [...]

Critical Theory, Links, Political Economy, Transformation

Making Scarce

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on June 23, 2008

Lots of really good work has gone up – in the form of both individual blogging and cross-blog discussions – while I’ve been away. I’m only very slowly catching up – I’m fairly far away from being able to comment sensibly. Over the next few days, I’ll at least try to toss up some pointers [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory, Political Economy

Social Construction

2 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on June 22, 2008

Okay. This post is a mess. Not up for serious reflection. But Praxis opened a discussion of something slightly related to these issues that I’ve been neglecting while I’ve been away from Melbourne, and… enough time off, I suppose. I step tentatively here in the direction of some of Praxis’ questions, reaching for a bridge [...]

Critical Theory, Metatheory, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity, Transformation

Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey

1 Comment Posted by N Pepperell on June 21, 2008

Just stumbled across davidharvey.org, which is serialising 13, two-hour lectures from David Harvey, focussed on providing a close reading the first volume of Capital – up to chapter three so far, with chapters 4-6 due online in 6 days.

Marxes, Political Economy, Reading

MSCP Winter Session

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on June 21, 2008

Still not “here”, but for those who are, I meant to plug this weeks ago: the winter session of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy begins on Monday. The winter session runs for three weeks. Each week, two sessions run on different topics: Week 1: June 23 – 27 History of Philosophy III: Aristotle – [...]

Events

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