January 2013
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A recipe for my sister: Pork and Walnut Pasta
Dinner the other night was an experiment spawned from the recesses of someone else’s blog post. It’s the way these things happen sometimes. If you’re allergic to walnuts like a certain legal theory comrade of mine, then I suppose you could try substituting almonds or cashews for the walnuts. Parmesan cheese is crucial to this recipe as it adds vitality and depth to the sauce, an...
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October 2012
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August 2012
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French Toast
I don’t share recipes very often.
Ingredients
4 Eggs
2/3 Cup of Milk
2 tsp of cinnamon
8 thick slices of bread (best to buy unsliced loaf and slice your own)
butter or vegetable oil
maple syrup
zest of 1/2 an orange
1/2 tbl of triple sec or cointreau
Directions
Mix eggs, milk and cinnamon together in a bowl. Add the orange zest and triple sec. Whisk until well blended. Pour the...
July 2012
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March 2012
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November 2011
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Wine Tip
Wine Tips - by Andrew Corrigan Master of Wine
“Air Force” – breathing and decanting - Part 1
Most wine consumers have heard of decanting and “breathing”. The image is strong of beautiful glass decanters, candles and waiters with starched white aprons. A decade or so ago, in the era of fine dining and silver service, restaurants used to decant wines! Decanting was part of the “table theatre”...
September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Nietzsche: the Dionysian/Apollonian tension vs the...
The Dionysian presupposes its Apollonian ‘other’, but the ethos of Christian modernity for Nietzsche is inherently decadent and a perversion of the Apollonian, rendering order and harmony in slavish and meek rather than noble or transformatively affirming terms. This is more a trio in Nietzsche, where the corrective tension towards the Dionysian is demanded to enliven the...
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June 2011
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Eo ipso
Another day, another lesson on reflecting on one’s own existence. My perennial winter philosophy class has begun again. This week and next I’m taking a small group of 30 students through the trials and tribulations of Schelling’s philosopby of Freedom, the psychoanalysis of desire, and Zizek’s ideologiekritik. All these are, in my view, vital ways to access the subterranean...
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Musings of an Inappropriate Woman: Mentoring week:... →
rachelhills:
Previously: It’s mentoring week here at Musings of An Inappropriate Woman.
Broadly speaking, there are three types of mentors:
1. The Mentor-Mentor. Someone you like/admire who has knowledge or experience you currently don’t have but would like to have some day. You converse from time to…
I’ve a mentor who straddles 1 and 3 with great ease: Prof William MacNeil of...
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May 2011
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Love, draft
((At our wedding reception on Saturday Sally will say thank you to everyone so my job in our shared speech is to be a philosopher… This is a first draft.))
To follow on from Sally, thank you so very much for joining us today to celebrate this moment. We both feel, however, that it would be amiss to not say something of love itself. All of the poetry and other words you heard during the...
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Roughing it out: drafting yet another course
I’m in the midst of redesigning a course. The loose title is “Science and Religion: revolutionary shifts” but we’ll see where that goes. Early days with the structure too. At the moment it looks like a mish-mash of eras.
Intro
Ancient Greece: Sophocles’ Antigone and orders of the world
Ancient Greece: Aristotle and the prime-mover
Medieval Scholasticism: Augustine and the...
April 2011
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Ontological comedy
While delivering my seminar for the Legal Intersections Research Centre Seminar series, I happened upon my favourite piece of thinking from the current writers on Subjectivity in German Idealist philosophy, i.e. Markus Gabriel, Slavoj Zizek, Ian Hamilton Grant, Peter Hallward:
We are the narrative fictions we tell ourselves, we are the lies we tell ourselves; the fictions that fill the...
Tumblr Staff: Running out of Post IDs →
staff:
Y2K might have been made up by the media, but there is another very real limit in computer software: the 32-bit integers that represent most numbers max out at 4,294,967,295. (See this chart for reference)
We never fathomed Tumblr would come close to 4 billion posts, so, unfortunately, our…
March 2011
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CFP: In the Aftermath of German Idealism
So wonderful, I wish I could go.
In the Aftermath of German Idealism May 14-15, Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kolleg”, Bonn Keynote speakers: Markus Gabriel, Universität Bonn, author of Der Mensch im Mythos and Transcendental Ontology (forthcoming by Continuum) Jean-Christophe Goddard, Université de Toulouse le Mirail, author of La philosophie fichtéenne de la vie: Le...
February 2011
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Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web
thisfeliciaday:
via youtube.com
Very interesting comments about piracy from one of my favorite writers!
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January 2011
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CFP: Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving...
Dear Colleagues,
Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image is now accepting submissions for the 2nd issue. Editors welcome articles that fall under the broad rubric of the relations between cinema and philosophy.
Submission deadline: March 1, 2011 (abstracts) and June 1, 2011 (completed papers)
Areas include, but are not limited to: *philosophy of cinema today *epistemology ...
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CFP: Sociology - The Sociology of Human Rights...
Call for Papers: The Sociology of Human Rights, special issue of Sociology, journal of the British Sociological Association.
This special issue, to be published in October 2012, addresses human rights as a crucial theme for contemporary sociology globally. The concept of human rights has become pervasive. Whether endorsed or criticised, it poses a challenge to which sociology must...
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“The New Zodiac
ARIES = APRIL 19 - MAY 13
TAURUS = MAY 14 - JUNE 19
GEMINI =...”
– New Zodiac sign 2012 - rah’s posterous
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Soliloquy: FLOOD →
dorksandsporks:
I hope everyone knows that these floods in Australia are just the effects of El Nina that have reached our country. It happens every 7 years here. I don’t know why people are making a big deal out of it. It’s not the end of the world. Although, my heart does go out to those…
But it WAS the end of the world for those that were killed. And it IS a big deal for those whose...
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I'm burning, I'm burning.: UGH. →
soliloquee:
xmylasttango:
People are submitting messages to fuckyeahilaughed saying that they live in America and could care less about the Australian floods. Someone said there are worse things that have happened than people dying in a flood.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!?!?! I hate people that give Americans a…
There is something clearly very wrong with those people. I would even...
75% of Queensland is now a national disaster area....
jumpinapuddle:
Fuck this.
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Message from Jacques-Alain Miller
Jacques-Alain Miller
Letter to the Freudian Field Paris, 9 January 2011 Dear Colleagues and Friends,
In this beginning of the year 2011, I anticipate the end of a work that has taken me a long time. Indeed, I finalised, what is strictly speaking called The Seminar of Jacques Lacan – which is the 25 Books that go from Freud’s Papers on Technique to Moment to Conclude. What still...
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“What is transference?
When the dynamic was first observed by Freud,...”
– Psychoanalysis FAQ
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a wandering reflection on the ECC and abstraction
Thank you. The entry has now been added to the final manuscript.
And so off goes the final of my three contributions to the Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, forthcoming with CQPress/SAGE later this year.
The project itself has Dale Southerton as its editor-in-chief and covers a wide array of material. I was really happy with the variety of contributions I got to make which included...
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Transference, Repetition and the Sexual Real
For whatever weird reason, I couldn’t get the footnote links to work and I’m feeling too lazy to go through and edit all of the anchors so you’ll just have to scroll to the bottom if you’re curious.
TRANSFERENCE, REPETITION AND THE SEXUAL REAL
Jacques-Alain Miller
A reading of Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis1
Changing the Order of Freud’s...
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