Month: December 2012

Vol 7, No 2 (2012) of PhaenEx is out…

Including my interview with Hasana Sharp (and her book panel) as well as many good articles: Vol 7, No 2 (2012).

Articles

Feelings of Loss and Grieving: Selves between Autonomy and Dependence view-pdf
HILDUR KALMAN 1-27
From Affectivity to Bodily Emanation: An Introduction to the Human Vibe view-pdf
JASON DEL GANDIO 28-58
Affective Resonance: On the Uses and Abuses of Music In and For Philosophy view-pdf
ROBIN JAMES 59-95
On Feeling Political: Negotiating (within) Affective Landscapes and Soundscapes view-pdf
JEAN-THOMAS TREMBLAY 96-123
Affect and Revolution: On Baldwin and Fanon view-pdf
JOHN E. DRABINSKI 124-158
Le rôle des affects : absurde et inquiétude chez Albert Camus et Jacques Lavigne view-pdf
PASCALE DEVETTE 159-184
Affects, Images and Childlike Perception: Self-Other Difference in Merleau-Ponty’s Sorbonne Lectures view-pdf
SHILOH WHITNEY 185-211

Book Symposium

Hasana Sharp’s Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization: A Response view-pdf
CHRISTOPHER SKEAFF 212-220
Commentary on Hasana Sharp’s Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization view-pdf
REBECCA TUVEL 221-228
Affirmation and Negativity in Spinoza: A Response to Hasana Sharp view-pdf
MATTHIAS FRITSCH 229-238
Hasana Sharp’s Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization, Feminism, and Embodiment view-pdf
MEGAN A. DEAN 239-247
Commentary on Hasana Sharp’s Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization view-pdf
KAREN HOULE 248-254
Response to Readers of Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization view-pdf
HASANA SHARP 255-268
Hasana Sharp in Conversation with Peter Gratton view-pdf
PETER GRATTON 269-275

Book Encounters / Notes de lecture

Le savoir contre lui-même : Initiation généalogique. Note de lecture sur Michel FOUCAULT, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au Collège de France 1970-1971 view-pdf
MARTIN BEDDELEEM 276-286
« Insurmontablement étranger au monde » : le Kleist de Gundolf. Note de lecture sur Friedrich GUNDOLF, Heinrich von Kleist view-pdf
NATHALIE LACHANCE 287-295
Grandeur et misère de la sociologie allemande : une introduction. Note de lecture sur Christian PAPILLOUD, Introduction à la sociologie allemande view-pdf
KAVIN HÉBERT 296-300
Truth and Science Reconsidered. An Encounter with: Paul Franco, Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period view-pdf
DANIEL HARRIS 301-313
Heidegger Uncovered. An Encounter with: Mark A. Wrathall,Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language, and History view-pdf
JONATHAN LEWIS 314-326
Notes on Contributors view-pdf
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The Salon interview with Zizek: I am not the world’s hippest philosopher! – Salon.com

Probably one of the better interviews with Zizek: I am not the world’s hippest philosopher! – Salon.com. It starts off well, asking about his strategy interviews, but then gets caught up talking about where he puts his socks (again). While I’m at it, here is Peter Osbourne’s critical assessment of Less than Nothing (2012), which portrays it as bordering on empty formalism.

China Miéville: the future of the novel | Books | guardian.co.uk

His keynote from the Edinburgh World Writers Conference:

I really, really don’t want to talk about genre, because I always really want to, and nerd-whines are boring. But a detente between litfic and its others is real. It’s a cliché to point out that generic tropes are infecting the mainstream, with a piling-up of various apocalypses by those guilty of literature. But on the other side, say, an extensive interview with Yinka Tutuola, son of the legendary Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, about his father’s work, is online not at any traditional outlet of the literati but at Weird Fiction Review, a fabulous site that emerges, with brilliance and polymath gusto, out of genre traditions.

BOOKS OF THE DECADE: ELIZABETH GROSZ’S THE NICK OF TIME AND TIME TRAVELS « Society and Space – Environment and Planning D

Kathryn Yusoff, Lancaster University picks her BOOKS OF THE DECADE: ELIZABETH GROSZ’S THE NICK OF TIME AND TIME TRAVELS « Society and Space – Environment and Planning D.

(I actually found the opposite, namely that I had expected a lot of those works and left disappointed. But that was more about expectations, and Yusuff makes a great case.)