March 2010
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Yet more of a reworking it seems
Introduction - Introducing Slavoj Žižek! (Course Outline; Johnston, ‘Preface’ in Žižek’s Ontology, pp. xiii-xix; Parker, ‘Yugoslavia - To Slovenia’ in Slavoj Žižek, pp. 11-35) SCREENING: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema part 1 How to Read Žižek - Philosophy, Politics, and Psychoanalysis (Daly & Žižek, ” in Conversations with Žižek, pp. 52-79) SCREENING:...
Mar 30th
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Yet another attempt to teach ideology-critique
Introduction - Introducing Slavoj Žižek! (Course Outline; Johnston, ‘Preface’ in Žižek’s Ontology, pp. xiii-xix; Parker, ‘Yugoslavia - To Slovenia’ in Slavoj Žižek, pp. 11-35) Freedom’s Origin - Schelling on Freedom’s Origin (Žižek, ‘Schelling-in-itself’ in ŽižekReader, pp. 251-267; Johnston, ‘The Terror of Freedom’ in Žižek’s Ontology,...
Mar 28th
The circus will be in town for winter →
The university has agreed to let me run a philosophy school over the winter break: two intensive weeks of contemporary philosophy and popular culture! It’s quite a coup because the whole thing is my…
Mar 25th
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Grouchy early effort at winter intensive outline
Intro – Slavoj Žižek as a ‘contemporary philosopher’ Fantasy I – What is Fantasy? (Zizek, ‘Seven Veils…’ in Plague of Fantasies, pp. 3-44) Fantasy II – Fantasy and the Law (prev + Zizek, ‘Obscene Object…’ in Zizek Reader, pp. 37-52) Freedom I – Existence and the Rotary Drives (Zizek, ‘Schelling-in-itself’ in Zizek Reader, pp. 251-267) Freedom II – Hegel’s Logic of Essence (Zizek, ‘Hegel’s...
Mar 23rd
PHD Comics: Contes de la route: Equal Opportunity →
Jorge Cham’s take on the French education system is probably a good warning model for Australia. The higher ed reforms that were tabled and then slipped behind the GFC hubbub were leaning in this sort of direction.
Mar 18th
Mar 9th
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International Journal of Žižek Studies, Vol 4 No 1...
Žižek and Ideology - Guest Editors: Heiko Feldner and Fabio Vighi Table of Contents Articles Žižek’s Notion of Ideology Critique in Context Heiko Feldner, Fabio Vighi ‘Thought is Grievance: On Žižek’s Parallax’ Rex William Butler The Real Internet Jodi Dean Struggling with Žižek’s Ideology: The Deleuzian Complaint, Or, Why is Žižek a Disguised Deleuzian in Denial? Jan...
Mar 8th
program-glitch-esc →
Surely they can’t mire the new Tron in a ‘lost Father’ scenario the entire time…
Mar 8th
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Mar 1st