Maimon Reading (Preliminary) Schedule

UPDATE (5/3): So I revised the run-down: chapters are very uneven length-wise, so I combined them (expect for Chapter 1 to get things going and Chapter 2 since it is the largest) – see below. I think that putting “Short Overview of the Whole Work” at the end makes sense as it is a separate [...]

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Ah, Well Now It Makes Sense.

Despite the argument that Arizona’s new law was supposed to deal with illegal immigrants only, it’s stories such as this that show the obvious fact that it’s nothing but good old xenophobia and racism. In the 1990s, Arizona hired hundreds of teachers whose first language was Spanish as part of a broad bilingual-education program. Many [...]

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A Portrait of Eliane Radigue (2009)

Can’t embed flash on WordPress, so it’s just a link. A short video about Eliane Radigue. A Portrait of Eliane Radigue (2009) from Maxime Guitton on Vimeo.

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Axing Successful Programs: The Case of Middlesex

Across the world there are administrators making piss poor decisions in response to budget crises. Add another one to the list. Via Infinite Thought: University News – Philosophy at Middlesex Wednesday 28 April MIDDLESEX TO CLOSE ITS TOP-RATED SUBJECT Late on Monday 26 April 2010, the Dean of the School of Arts and Education at [...]

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David Harvey: Enigma of Capital (LSE Lecture)

Enigma of Capital Lecture at LSE The Enigma of Capital London School of Economics Department of Geography public lecture Monday 26 April 2010

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Can Philosophy Comprehend Life? (A Talk by Eckart Förster)

Great talk by Eckart Förster (discussing Evan Thompson’s book Mind in Life, among other things, and the relationship between scientific discourse and philosophy, including a reference to Naturphilosophie and Goethe) found here. There is also a talk by Evan Thompson following Eckart Förster.

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It’s Official

So Maimon reading thing will commence on June 15th, 2010 (changed from June 1st due to Jon Cogburn’s schedule, but I might post something or solicit posts on Maimon’s colorful biography in the first couple of weeks of June). Continuum was nice enough to plug it on their blog here. So we can’t back out [...]

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More Special Effects, Please: (L’Objet Danse)

Watching this rather amusing (and spectacular) period film about Louis XIV and Lully (and other things) called Le Roi Danse. Whoever claimed that it is only in the twentieth century that we have become addicted to special effects (and 3D glasses, and the spectacle) is only correct to a certain extend – this looks pretty [...]

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More Summer Reading.

Adrian Ivakhiv is proposing to do a reading of Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. He doesn’t have any details yet, but hopefully that works out. Could be a fun summer then.

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BBC Proms 2010 Guide

Just out (print version out as well). Looking through it. All of the BBC Prom concerts are usually available through BBC3 Radio (live or recorded for 7 days). Get your highlighters out! Three Proms jumped at me immediately – looking for more:

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