Review of Benjamin Bio| Radical Philosophy

via Short life, long book | Radical Philosophy.

Violence: Thinking Without Banisters // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Seyla Benhabib has an appreciative review of Richard Bernstein’s latest in the NDPR (not sure how someone didn’t pick out the year of Burke’s Reflections as about 30 years off), a book waiting for me in St. John’s and which seems to go chapter by chapter through works I’ve assigned for my own courses on violence: Violence: Thinking Without Banisters // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame.

Lacan Deleuze Badiou // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Adrian Johnston reviews in the NDPR Lacan Deleuze Badiou by A. J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens, and Jon Roffe (Edinburgh University Press, 2014): Lacan Deleuze Badiou // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame.

A Summer in the New Yorker Archive

For those looking for summer reading, the New Yorker has opened up a bit of its archive: A Summer in the New Yorker Archive.

A Fight for the Right to Read Heidegger – NYTimes.com

Michael Marder offers a less than stirring defense of reading Heidegger (why not offer some of the insights mentioned beyond just citing being-in-the-world?) at the NYT’s Stone blog: A Fight for the Right to Read Heidegger – NYTimes.com.

Defining Neoliberalism

Robin James gives it a go:

I think the term “neoliberalism” can mean something useful and specific if we’re more cognizant of its use.It seems to me that a lot of the confusion around the term is that it is used in at least two senses: one indicates a period in time, and one indicates an ideology. Just as “the Cold War” or “modernity” can refer to both a historical time-frame and a dominant ideology that shaped that historical period, “neoliberal” can mean both “now” and the ideology that informs this “now.”

via An attempt at a precise & substantive definition of ‘neoliberalism,’ plus some thoughts on algorithms » Cyborgology.

A Review by Miriam Tola of Two Spinoza Books

Including Antonio Negri’s Spinoza for Our Time (Columbia University Press, 2013) and Hasana Sharp’s Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization  (University of Chicago Press, 2011), which I reviewed here: Reviews in Cultural Theory | Home.

Guattari, Felix 2012 Schizoanalytic Cartographies, reviewed by Thomas Jellis | Society and Space – Environment and Planning D

Thomas Jellis reviews Felix Guattari’s book Schizoanalytic cartographies, Bloomsbury, London, 2012.

via Guattari, Felix 2012 Schizoanalytic Cartographies, reviewed by Thomas Jellis | Society and Space – Environment and Planning D.

A Critical Take on the #Accelerate Reader

At the The New Inquiry.

Guest Post: Hear Ye Plebs, a Provost Speaks!

This is some deserved satire of an Inside Higher Ed piece comparing universities to cruise ships.