interventions

tech problems in japan

Administrator — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:20:46 +0000

Althusser in New Zealand

Administrator — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:32:08 +0000

I received an email just now from Scott Hamilton, who has been writing a doctoral thesis on Althusser and E.P. Thompson. He has written a very interesting review of the latest Althusser volume, where he discusses not only the contexts of Althusser’s interventions but also the contexts of its reading, especially its effects in [...]

CFP: Rethinking Marxism Conference 2006

Administrator — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:03:09 +0000

Call For Papers

I should have posted this a while ago. Better late than never …

Rethinking Marxism 2006

Thursday, October 26th through Saturday, October 28th 2006.

Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society is pleased to announce its 6th major international conference, to be held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on October 26-28, 2006. [...]

Illusions of Identity: resisting (beyond) identity politics

Administrator — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:34:54 +0000

A CFP from Elise Thoburn for a Canadian postgrad conference on identity politics

CALL FOR PAPERS: PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WILDLY

Illusions of Identity: resisting (beyond) identity politics An interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, Canada

October 14-15, 2006

With the limits of contemporary leftist social movements becoming increasingly apparent, [...]

Misery Index

Administrator — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:15:14 +0000

Got a nice email just now from Jason Netherton of Misery Index, who has checked out this blog. If you get a chance to check them out on tour for their new album make sure you do! He also directed me to his blog: http://demockery.org/

Out now: Philosophy of the Encounter

Administrator — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:26:43 +0000

Rowan Wilson sent the following email today:

NEW TITLE FROM VERSO:

Philosophy of the Encounter Later Writings, 1978-1987

Louis Althusser

Edited by François Matheron

Translated and introduced by G.M. Goshgarian

“Althusser traversed so many lives—so many personal, historical, philosophical and political adventures; marked, inflected, influenced so many discourses, actions and existences by the radiant and provocative force of his thought—that the most [...]

borderlands e-journal 4:3 now out

Administrator — Sun, 28 May 2006 13:30:16 +0000

http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au

VOLUME 4 NUMBER 3, 2005

:: Gandhi, Nonviolence & Modernity :: Editors: John Docker & Debjani Ganguly

INTRODUCTION by John Docker. ESSAYS by Frances Peters Little, John Maynard, Rhonda Y. Williams, Brian Martin, Sean Scalmer, Leela Gandhi, Debjani Ganguly, & John Docker. REVIEWS by Ernesto Verdeja, Daniel McLoughlin, Andrew Jakubowicz, & Jacinta O’Hagan.

This issue is the last [...]

Advance copy of new Althusser volume arrived yesterday

Administrator — Tue, 16 May 2006 22:54:57 +0000

A copy of Philosophy of the Encounter arrived in my letterbox yesterday, courtesy of Rowan Wilson in Verso’s publicity department. Angela Mitropoulos (owner of the archive: s0metim3s blog) and myself plan to review this volume for a forthcoming issue of borderlands e-journal. The official release date of the book is June 5, 2006.

Conference on Judith Butler and Political Theory

Administrator — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:32:18 +0000

I received the following announcement today from Samuel Chambers via the Post-Structuralism and Radical Politics Group of the PSA:

A Politics of Contingency: Critical Assessments of the Political Theory of Judith Butler

The Department of Politics and International Relations at Swansea University is pleased to announce a one day international conference on the political theory of Judith [...]

Conference feat. Yann Moulier-Boutang @ Cambridge University

Administrator — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:08:59 +0000

IMMATERIAL LABOUR, MULTITUDES AND NEW SOCIAL SUBJECTS: CLASS COMPOSITION IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM

To be held on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th April 2006 in the Keynes Hall, King’s College, University of Cambridge, with additional events in other venues on Friday 28th April.

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