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• Agamben's Aesthetics Explained in 1000 Words

  

  My previous work was concerned with the “Literary Agamben” although its primary interest was Agamben’s extensive work on poetry. Read more

  The 04 February 2013 by   Williamwatkin
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• Noir Killers, Family Men, Methodist Clergy, and Debauched Authors

  

  Here's an old CBC interview with Somerset Maugham, possibly 'the most debauched man of the 20th century',whom Ward Cleaver held up as a model for his youngest... Read more

  The 03 February 2013 by   Praymont
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• Phallic Rivers of Faith

  

  The esoteric and erotic are sometimes linked, though not often do we find them together in a work of comparative religion. In 1883, James Forlong published a... Read more

  The 31 January 2013 by   Cris
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• Freud’s Theory of Religion

  

  In the final installment of the series (Hume, Feuerbach, Marx, and Darwin) on early naturalist-explanatory theories of religion, we come to Sigmund Freud. Read more

  The 30 January 2013 by   Cris
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• Kant's Aesthetics of Communicability in 300 Words

  

  Kant uses the idea of communicability in several texts, but its sustained development is the early sections of Critique of Pure Judgement where he develops his... Read more

  The 28 January 2013 by   Williamwatkin
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• Agamben, Language, Communicabiity

  

  Opening of the final chapter of my book Agamben and Indifference dealing with language in The Sacrament of Language. One of the earliest pieces of important... Read more

  The 28 January 2013 by   Williamwatkin
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• Deleuze and Badiou

  

  I have been of the opinion for some years now that the future of philosophy and theory in general lies in the decision between the philosophical system of... Read more

  The 27 January 2013 by   Williamwatkin
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• Mayer Zald on His Development as a Sociologist

  I had the opportunity to have lunch with Mayer Zald in July last summer, a few weeks before his death. Our conversation was wide-ranging, but one segment in... Read more

  The 27 January 2013 by   Dlittle30
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• Is Hefting to Perceive the Affordance for Throwing a Smart Perceptual Mechanism?

  

  In the last post, I reviewed Geoff's first paper looking at whether people can perceive the affordance for throwing an object to a maximum distance and a first... Read more

  The 24 January 2013 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Clear as Mud: Scientology

  

  When you are asked to do a piece for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, I can only assume it’s an honor that pays. So when Michael Kinsley was asked to... Read more

  The 21 January 2013 by   Cris
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