Communism at Birkbeck

I'll be there On the Idea of Communism

I will make a bombardment when I'm back

see you

Fark Yaraları Roll'da

Roll dergisi ali tekintüre abimizi konuk ettiği son sayısında, bloga da "ansiklopedi" kısmında yer vermiş sağolsun. ilgili bölümü taradım (derginin tamamını da taramak aklımdan geçmedi değil). bakınız

metindeki hurafelere dair:

- karadeniz bölgesiyle alakam yok, hiç sevmem, yeşilin düşmanıyım

- felsefe değil, sosyoloji okuyorum, + yandal olarak felsefe

- heidegger'den sonra "felsefe", bourdieu'den sonra "sosyoloji" diye iki ayrı alan kalmadı: ontikle ontolojiğin sarmalında (merleau-ponty'nin ipine sarılarak) "tecrübe"nin dünyanın dünyasallığına açılma anındaki ahvali (kaygıdan sınıfa tek 'beden'de [corpus]) düşünülür oldu (bkz. Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, Malabou).

sevgiler, saygılar.

[edit: tamamen barış çubuğum ağzımda yazdım, ayar vermek gibi 1niyetim yok, yanlış anlaşılmasın (daha kimse birşey demedi lakin pınar, 'biraz sert' dedi, odun kesmek dedi, dedim Roithaimer kitsch çağının zirvesinde yaşıyoruz)]

edit2: yahu ben neden bu post'u attığımı yazmamışım, diyeceğim oydu ki teşekkür ederim, bu blog'u imkanlı kılan, destekleyen, köstekleyen, fitilleyen herkese müteşekkirim. birçok blog, kişi ve hoca blog'un tanıtılmasında gönüllü oldular, eyvallah.

bir de eğer niyeti bozmuş insanlar varsa orada bir yerlerde, iletişime geçsinler, türkiye'de dergilerde çevrilip kalmış önemli makaleleri tarayalım.

tekrardan selamlar.

(ilk pınar gördü, helal olsun.)

Have We Arrived? (Beckett there somewhere)

At that time when the dawn star passes across earth, harbinger
of light, and after him dawn of the saffron mantle is scattered
across the sea, the fire died down and the flames were over.
The winds took their way back toward home again, crossing
the Thracian water, and it boiled with a moaning swell as they crossed it.

- Iliad, book 23, 226-30 (trans. lattimore)

After him, remembrance of a saintliness, which "derives from a theorem, that is, from pain. Such is the act"(1), blooms "and of a sudden he is off again, on his wanderings, passing from light to shadow, from shadow to light, unheedingly"(2). They crossing the channel heard "I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patinece without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids"(3). One of them wrote a letter:

"Would like to address myself, in a straight line, directly, without courrier only to you, but I can't manage to arrive, and that is the worst of it. A tragedy, my love, of destination" (4).

In this transhumance "without habitat" (5), "you are lost in the forests of high threshing ferns or whirled far out on the face of wind-swept wastes, till you being to wonder if you have not died without knowing and gone to hell or been born again into an even worse place than before"(6). He tried to respond this friend: "of that life too I shall tell you perhaps one day, the day I know that when I thought I knew I was merely existing and that passion without form or stations will have devoured me down to the rotting flesh itself itself and that when I know that I know nothing, am only more or less openly (7)... I listen and the voice is of a world collapsing endlessly, a frozen world, under a faint untroubled sky, enough to see by, yes, and frozen too (8)".

No one knows. Someone survived, effaced the traces (derrida), remembering them said in the end "In finitude, therefore, a thought does not complete the meaning (of what) it thinks, and thus lets this 'object'-the thingitself- have the weight that carries away from completed, presentified, or signified meaning... that which constitutes meaning by exceeding all meaning. The existence of the slightest pebble already overflows; however light overflows; however light it may be, it already weighs this excessive weight... We need an art -if it is an 'art'- of thickness, of gravity. We need figures that weigh upon the bottom rather than extracting themselves from it. That stave it in and expose it. We need a thought what would be like a mass out of true, the fall and the creation of the world"(9).


Bibliography
(1) Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe (2005 [1995]) "Pasolini, an improvisation (OF A SAINTLINESS)" in Umbr(a): The Dark God, p.92
(2) Beckett, Malone Dies, grove, p. 206
(3) Molloy. p. 107-8
(4) Derrida & Malabou, Counterpath, sup, p.193
(5) ibid. p.166
(6) malone dies p.226-7
(7) molloy p.25
(8) ibid. 40
(9) Jean-Luc Nancy, The gravity of a Thought, p. 84.

painting by Cy Twombly "The Fire that Consumes All before It"
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I know I promised for Brennan and Bourdieu, yet noticing that 1953, Jan 19th is the premier of Waiting for Godot at Théâtre de Babylon, I decided to make up a Beckett issue.

see you next month.
unutmadan güle güle simit.

To link all Beckett at one time:
http://farkyaralari.blogspot.com/search/label/beckett

Understanding Samuel Beckett

Understanding Samuel Beckett
(Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature)
by Alan Astro

# Hardcover: 240 pages
# Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr (September 1990)

Presents an overview of the work of Samuel Beckett. Discussing his famous as well as lesser known texts, the book shows how his characters incorporate silence in their speech to narrate their deaths. Finally it examines "Stirring Still", his last text, which evokes his own imminent death.

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Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O'Casey, Beckett

Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O'Casey, Beckett
by Ronan McDonald

In Tragedy and Irish Writing McDonald considers the culture of suffering, loss, and guilt in the work of Synge, O'Casey, and Beckett. He applies external ideas of tragedy to the three dramatists and also discerns particular sorts of tragedy within their own work. While alert to the real differences among the three, the book also traces common themes and preoccupations. It identifies a conflict between form and content, between heightened language and debased reality, as the hallmark of Irish tragedy.

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The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett

The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett
by Lee Oser

# Hardcover: 196 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 29, 2007)

"Oser's book would be of most interest to philosophers, religious studies and literary scholars exploring the intersection of art and ethics, religion and culture."
-Alyda Faber, Atlantic School of Theology, Studies in Religion

link (I can't understand these backcover stupidities)

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett
(Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Ronan McDonald

150 pages

'... it is an excellent book: it does exactly what it says on the tin. ... The greatest strength of the book is in McDonald's ability to articulate a shapely overview while maintaining a sharp sense of the distinctions ...' Irish Studies Review


what there

Theatre on Trial: Samuel Beckett's Later Drama

Theatre on Trial: Samuel Beckett's Later Drama
by Anna McMullan

# Library Binding: 176 pages
# Publisher: Routledge (July 1993)

Theatre on Trial is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett's later drama in the context of contemporary theatre. Audrey McMullan employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, voyeurism, gender, and the ideology of stage and TV space. Recent work in the field of critical theory has suggested new ways of looking at performance practice. And, argues McMullan, what makes an understanding of Beckett crucial to these debates is that his theatrical practice foreground processes which are central to much current thinking in the area. Beckett's Stages will be of vital interest to students and teachers of performance studies. The author's application of theories of deconstruction and psychoanalytic feminism to Beckett's work will break new ground in theatre studies.

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Samuel Beckett's New Worlds: Style in Metafiction

Samuel Beckett's New Worlds: Style in Metafiction
by Susan D. Brienza

# Hardcover: 290 pages
# Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (March 1987)

Beckett's fiction since The Unnamable (1958) abandons complete sentences for repeated phrases and a "midget grammar." Brienza has undertaken the first stylistic analysis of Beckett's condensed prose, 12 pieces altogether in which "style and content reflect each other endlessly as in a fun house mirror." Since Beckett rarely uses the same stratagem twice, each work is treated separately, and the French original is often compared with the author's English version for clues to his meaning. Brienza is asking readers to do no less than create a vocabulary and syntax before they can begin to read Beckett's new fiction. This intellectual deciphering may or may not be emotionally satisfying, but it does yield a highly readable study of Beckett's impenetrable prose. Recommended for academic libraries. Lisa Mullenneaux

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Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body: The Organs and Senses in Modernism

Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body: The Organs and Senses in Modernism
by Yoshiki Tajiri

Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body is a study of the representation of the body in Samuel Beckett's work (both novels and plays), specifically focused on the 'prosthetic' aspect of the organs and senses. While making use of the theoretical potential of the concept of 'prosthesis', this book aims to resituate Beckett in the broad cultural context of modernism in which the impact of new media and technologies was variously registered.

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Samuel Beckett and the Primacy of Love

Samuel Beckett and the Primacy of Love
by John Keller

# Hardcover: 272 pages
# Publisher: Manchester University Press (March 7, 2003)

"John Keller has written a book that threw more light onto the Beckettian murk...for this reader...than has been available before. The readings...are highly convincing and in places quite stunning. Beckett Studies...will never be quite the same again." -- Lance Butler, Universite de Pau

"Keller utterly convinces the reader of his basic, fundamental premise that Beckett’s work is ‘primarily about love’. This is an astounding conclusion which will change the nature of Beckett Studies. [This book] is a significant intervention and a work of true originality." -- Shane Murphy, Co-ordinator, Irish and Scottish Studies Programme, University of Aberdeen

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Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image

Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image
by Anthony Uhlmann

# Hardcover: 198 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (January 15, 2007)

Beckett often made use of images from the visual arts and readapted them, staging them in his plays, or using them in his fiction. Anthony Uhlmann sets out to explain how an image differs from other terms, like 'metaphor' or 'representation', and, in the process, to analyse Beckett's use of images borrowed from philosophy and aesthetics. This is the first study to carefully examine Beckett's thoughts on the image in his literary works and his extensive notes to the philosopher Arnold Geulincx. Uhlmann considers how images might allow one kind of interaction between philosophy and literature, and how Beckett makes use of images which are borrowed from, or drawn into dialogue with, philosophical images from Geulincx, Berkeley, Bergson, and the ancient Stoics. Uhlmann's reading of Beckett's aesthetic and philosophical interests provides a revolutionary new reading of the importance of the image in his work.

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Proust, Beckett, and Narration

Proust, Beckett, and Narration
by James H. Reid

# Hardcover: 206 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (October 13, 2003)

"Proust, Beckett and Narration is a welcome addition to the literature on novelistic self-consciousness." - Derek Schilling, Rutgers University

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Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies

Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies
by Lois Oppenheim (Editor)

# Paperback: 288 pages
# Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (September 4, 2004)

Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies explores the evolution of critical approaches to Beckett's writing. It will appeal to graduate students and advanced undergraduates as well as scholars, as it offers both an overview of Beckett studies and investigates current debates within the interdisciplinary critical arena. Each of the contributors is an eminent Beckett specialist who has published widely in the field.

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Images of Beckett

Images of Beckett
by James Knowlson (Author), John Haynes (Photographer)

'... these theatre photos are among the most resonant of the past century ... Haynes doesn't so much snap a production as x-ray its heart ... Biographer Knowlson examines Beckett's character ... visual influences and directorial working method in three beautiful essays that go well beyond the merely dutiful in this tremendous picture book.' Plays International 'A stunning collection ...' London Review of Books

Review
"This is a worthy volume, fascinating, not heavy-handed, and the pictures from Beckett's various plays, not to say his astonishing face, are a trip."
L.W. Milam, The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities

"For those interested in Beckett's complex dialogue with art, Images of Beckett is richly rewarding."
American Theatre

"It offers a fresh look at a writer about whom much has already been written."
Irish America

"...a major contribution to the way we see modernism... the photos show us not only what Beckett's plays looked like in their original production, but also what Beckett had wanted them to look like. They are the closest we can get to seeing the plays realized in the way he had envisaged them today."
James Joyce Literary Supplement


destory, destroy

How It Was - A memoir of Samuel Beckett

How It Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett
by Anne Atik

faber and faber edition

2006 marks the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth. To most, he was a brilliant artist who shied away from celebrity and photographers, but to the distinguished painter Avigdor Arikha and his wife, author Anne Atik, Beckett was the close friend with whom they shared countless drinks, meals, and rich conversations. As intimates and artists, they interacted with him several times a week for over four decades. In 1970, Atik began jotting down notes on her relationship with Beckett. "After fifteen years of memorable conversations with Beckett," she writes, "I realized that I could not depend on my memory. The unforgettable was becoming the irretrievable." The three could just as easily discuss their personal lives as ponder the state of art. This book documents not only Beckett’s passions, but is filled with drawings by Arikha, snapshots, and letters. There are also drafts in Beckett’s own handwriting that would eventually become part of his formidable canon, covering the breadth of his knowledge of literature by detailing his opinions and influences. An intimate collage, How It Was offers a unique insider’s portrait and gives the reader a chance to sit down with one of the great literary masters of the twentieth century.

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Beckett's Eighteenth Century

Beckett's Eighteenth Century
by Frederik N. Smith

# Hardcover: 231 pages
# Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (March 20, 2002)

Beckett's Eighteenth Century is the first book-length study of Samuel Beckett's affinity with the British eighteenth century and of the influence of its writers on his work. Reading Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Johnson, Gray, and other writers of this period, this study demonstrates how he was not only influenced by them, but interprets them for us in quite a modern way.

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Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity

Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity
by Shane Weller

# Hardcover: 232 pages
# Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (July 21, 2006)

If there is one trait common to almost all post-Holocaust theories of literature, it is arguably the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity that resists all dialectical mastery and makes possible a post-metaphysical ethics. Beckett's oeuvre in particular has repeatedly been deployed as exemplary of just such an affirmation. In Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity, however, Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work.

take five!

Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency

Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency
by Andrew Gibson

# Hardcover: 336 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 8, 2007)

The book is impeccably researched...Badiou's reading of the author has hitherto been less influential in the Anglo-Saxon (empirical) context than it has in le monde francophone. Gibson's book constitutes the first sustained study of the subject. In its depth of analysis, it will be difficult to surpass. Ulrika Maude, Modernism/Modernity Gibson's book, with its intricate layers of theoretical complexity and its vast ambition, is certainly a formidable feat of scholarship. The book is a testimony to its author's intense participation in in a set of intellectual debates and exchanges which are - or at least should be - of the greatest significance in literary studies. English Gibson is masterful in his grasp of Badiou's system (even its more knotty mathematical formulae, and he effortlessly weaves his argument from Badiou's theorems to Beckett's literary texts...By suggesting that Beckett's work describes a waiting for something (the event) as well as an aimless, anxious, endlessly postponed process (of intermittency), Gibson provides an absorbing account of the hesitant expectancy of Beckett's writing. Benjamin Keatinge, Irish University Review scrupulous, immensely well-read Leslie Hill, French Studies Beckett and Badiou is all the better for its inherent difficulties, and even uncertainties, for its ultimate twisting and turning on itself...a nuance and rigour that make it a richly satisfying and productive account of Beckett's oeuvre. Gibson probably takes us further than any other recent reader of Beckett, in the direction of grasping the full social and critical form of his art. David Cunningham, Radical Philosophy Gibson's book, with its intricate layers of theoretical complexity and its vast ambition, is certainly a formidable feat of scholarship [and is] also hugely enjoyable The Journal of the English Association


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Samuel Becket the Critical Heritage

Samuel Beckett the Critical Heritage
(The Critical heritage series)
by Lawrence Graver (Editor), Raymond Federman (Editor)

# Hardcover: 372 pages
# Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul (June 1978)

The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These carefully selected sources include: * contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media. In these students can read about how Lady Chatterly's Lover shocked contemporary reviewers or what Ibsen's Doll's House meant to the early women's movement * little-published documentary material such as diaries and correspondence - often between authors and their publishers and critics * significant pieces of criticism from later periods to demonstrate how an author's reputation changed over time

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Beckett and Authority: The Uses of Cliche

Beckett and Authority: The Uses of Cliche
by Elizabeth Barry

The book covers Beckett's early fiction, mature fiction, theatre and his spare late prose works, situating Beckett in a philosophical tradition and literary tradition that has argued for the creative value of stupidity; a key concept in the thinking of philosophers such as Wittgenstein and Deleuze, and central to the practice of writers such as Wordsworth, Flaubert, Baudelaire and Joyce. The book investigates the relationship between verbal cliché, memory and authority in Beckett's prose and drama, arguing that by consciously manipulating the language of cliché, Beckett can interrogate the assumptions made in the discourses of social and intellectual authority without assuming a superior and complacent authority of his own.

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The Tarnac Affair: Symptomatic of a Psychotic Social Order

this piece appeared at
Telos Press Blog (Jan 11, '09)

Jean-Claude Paye, a sociologist, is the author of Global War on Liberty, available from Telos Press. This essay was translated from the French by Henry Crapo.

The Tarnac Affair:
Symptomatic of a Psychotic Social Order

by Jean-Claude Paye

On November 11, 2008, within the framework of Operation "TAIGA" [1], one hundred and fifty police encircled the small village of Tarnac, in Corrèze (southwest France). Simultaneously, evidence was seized in Rouen, Paris, Limoges, and Metz. An arrest of young people was made, above all as a spectacle to incite fear. Their arrest was said to be in connection with the sabotage of the train lines of the SNCF [2], which on November 8 caused delays for certain TGVs on the Paris-Lille line [3]. These malevolent acts, which knocked down several overhead wires, were characterized as terrorist in nature, despite the fact that they never, at any moment, put human lives in danger. The prosecution, which says it possesses several clues, recognizes that it has no material evidence or proof.

It is the character profile of the arrested youths that justifies their being held for questioning. They were arrested because "they used radical language and had relations with foreign groups," and because a number of them had "participated on a regular basis in political demonstrations"—for example, in "marches held in opposition to the Edvige [Exploitation documentaire et valorisation de l'information générale] file system [4] and against the reinforcement of measures against immigration." As for their residence, it was described as "a meeting place for indoctrination, a base camp for violent action."

Although accused of constituting a "hardcore cell that had armed struggle as its purpose," they were rapidly set free, some conditionally so, while others were confined to their residence. Only the "chief" and his companion would be held in jail. On December 26, the appeals court in Paris had, at the request of the prosecution, cancelled an order that Julien Coupat be released. The request for release of his companion had been previously refused.

The discourse of the government illustrates a kind of double displacement: first, simple acts of sabotage, such as those one might find in any social movement, are qualified as "terrorist," and these acts are attributed to the youths of Tarnac, despite the fact that the police admit to the absence of any material element of proof. The image of terrorism construed by the State creates a reality that is a substitute for the facts. The facts are not denied, but they are denied any explanatory capacity. The acts of sabotage cannot be other than the acts of persons designated as terrorists. The act of naming, prior to any procedure of objective evaluation, trumps the latter and seals it in an empty form.

The absence of material elements that would permit the pursuit of the incriminated persons is not denied, but the necessary prevalence of facts is overturned, in the interests of the primacy of the image constructed by the State. The position of the Minister of the Interior, Madame Alliot-Marie, is particularly interesting: "They have adopted underground methods. They never use mobile telephones, and they live in areas where it is very difficult for the police to gather information without being spotted. They have managed to have, in the village of Tarnac, friendly relations with people who can warn them of the presence of strangers." But, the minister admits, "there have been no indications of attacks against persons."

These declarations nicely sum up the affair. What makes these young people terrorists is their way of life, the fact that they attempt to escape the economic machine and that they do not adopt a "proactively" submissive attitude with respect to procedures of control. Not to have a cellphone is proof of terrorist intentions. Participating in a social network is also incriminating behavior, because this practice permits the construction of a protective shield against the deployment of unrestricted power by the State.

In its declarations, the reference to acts, in the absence of any convincing material elements of proof, cannot be rationally assimilated, and induces a phase of aberration, a reconstruction of reality with the image of terrorism as support. This process is equally visible in the police reports, which utilize, from a purely semantic point of view, an entirely phantasmagorical reconstruction of reality. Thus, the police, as if referring to material proof of the culpability of the accused, speak of "documents noting the times of passage of trains, village by village, with the times of arrival and departure from the stations." An SNCF timetable thus becomes a particularly troubling document, and its possession necessarily implies participation in the material destruction of railway equipment.

The staging of these arrests and the bringing of charges against the "autonomous youth of Tarnac" is a phenomenon that reveals a profound mutation of the symbolic order of the society. The State has the ability to create a new reality, a virtual reality that does not suppress, but rather supplants, the facts. The weakness of the social movement and the failure of the symbolic function explain the absence of constraints on the domination of the State, which exhibits itself as an all-inclusive entity in the guise of a maternal image. Where a social order reveals itself to be contradictory, a psychotic structure takes its place, an order that suppresses all conflict and all possibility of confrontation with reality.

Notes

1. TAIGA (traitement automatique de l'information géopolitique d'actualité) is French spyware, developed in 1987, which uses somewhat outmoded computer technology based on the semantic analysis of information intended for the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE). (The DGSE, which is subordinate to the Ministry of the Defense, is responsible for military intelligence as well as for strategic information, electronic intelligence. It is also responsible for the counterespionage outside the borders of the national territory.) TAIGA technology was used by the FBI to gather information on Julien Coupat's supposed subversive activities in the United States, whence the operations code name "EAL."

2. The French National Railway Company (SNCF) is a French public enterprise.

3. The TGV (train à grande vitesse) is the French high-speed train.

4. French revolt over Edvige-Sarkozy's Big Brother computer, which will spy on citizens.

Derrida & Chérif - Islam and the West [made in istanbul]

[scars of différance presents]


Islam and the West:
A Conversation with Jacques Derrida
(Religion and Postmodernism Series)
By Mustapha Cherif


University Of Chicago Press



In the spring of 2003, Jacques Derrida sat down for a public debate in Paris with Algerian intellectual Mustapha Chérif. The eminent philosopher arrived at the event directly from the hospital where he had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the illness that would take his life just over a year later. That he still participated in the exchange testifies to the magnitude of the subject at hand: the increasingly distressed relationship between Islam and the West, and the questions of freedom, justice, and democracy that surround it. As Chérif relates in this account of their dialogue, the topic of Islam held special resonance for Derrida—perhaps it is to be expected that near the end of his life his thoughts would return to Algeria, the country where he was born in 1930. Indeed, these roots served as the impetus for their conversation, which first centers on the ways in which Derrida’s Algerian-Jewish identity has shaped his thinking. From there, the two men move to broader questions of secularism and democracy; to politics and religion and how the former manipulates the latter; and to the parallels between xenophobia in the West and fanaticism among Islamists. Ultimately, the discussion is an attempt to tear down the notion that Islam and the West are two civilizations locked in a bitter struggle for supremacy and to reconsider them as the two shores of the Mediterranean—two halves of the same geographical, religious, and cultural sphere. Islam and the West is a crucial opportunity to further our understanding of Derrida’s views on the key political and religious divisions of our time and an often moving testament to the power of friendship and solidarity to surmount them.

NEW LINK (and I think it is the only one that works)

mediafire link: thanks enes for the pdf, in this time of extreme unsociability

rapidshare link

+
Derrida interview on Holocaust

"Tarnac" (for urgency urges)

Support is still needed, so please sign the petition.

http://www.soutien11novembre.org/

http://www.mesopinions.com/petition-de-soutien-aux-inculpes-du-11-Novembre-petition-petitions-81da97ce3744e2e84a145009aadbc0f9.html

Comité de soutien aux inculpés de Tarnac, le bourg, 19170 Tarnac

Financial help is also needed for the support group. Cheques can be made payable to Comité de soutien aux inculpés de Tarnac and sent to Comité de soutien aux inculpés de Tarnac, le bourg, 19170 Tarnac The use of the term terrorism in this affair is extremely disturbing. Thanks!!

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Daniel Bensaïd, philosophe
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Slavoj Zizek, philosophe

from the comment by g [a letter, an indication, a heterogeneity shines forth; glory for the finitude we share. thank you.]

Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum, or the issue for thinking "world" anew

"the seasons change continually while I stand at the window... I see how the catastrophe is shaping up; looking out of the window I see it shaping up noiselessly, taking place noiselessly. I am not allowed to speak of it."

Gargoyles, Thomas Bernhard Vintage press, p.192-8

being exposed to the hetero-affection through/of the lines of Nancy's "The Creation of the World or Globalization," transcribing experience of an (more) originary repetition - 'order of things' (sens) on the way to think world anew, are being torn asunder. no system, no more alwayss, just fragments to directives (Lingis) through the imperative. a dedication which demands a soberness to bear this pain transcribed in the lines of Bernhard.

with these motivations in mind, I made up this collection.

thanks for the e-mails asking if I am sick or finished up with blogging. sorry for such a long delay, I'll try to discipline myself for posting in a more regular fashion.




Goodbye Alexandros Grigoropoulos






more information on Tarnac 9 affair & Tiqqun

Coupat, a ph.d student at EHESS "école des hautes études sciences sociales" studied situationism, entitled 'perspective et critique de la pensee situationniste' (dea dissertation 1997).

http://notesforthecomingcommunity.blogspot.com/2008/04/tiqqun-de-la-noche.html
http://www.tiqqun.info/
http://www.softtargetsjournal.com/v21/tiqqun.php
http://info.interactivist.net/node/3556

Next Issue:

Marx
Bourdieu
Teresa Brennan

edit: I love this video by Beach House "used to be"

On the Study of Greek Poetry by Friedrich Von Schlegel [made in istanbul]

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On the Study of Greek Poetry
by Friedrich Von Schlegel

Stuart Barnett (translator and foreword)


after seeing that most of the people are not even aware of this text I felt an urgency to xerox it, an urgency to remind.


text of the epochal turn: a companion to planetary age

p.s. by mistake I named the file's author schelling

Philosophical Fragments by Friedrich Schlegel

Philosophical Fragments
by Friedrich Schlegel

Rodolphe Gasche (Foreword), Peter Firchow (Translator)

Fredrich Schlegel has long been recognized as the central force behind the early German Romantic movement. Schlegel first defined and coined the term “Romantic” in the present sense, employing a fragmentary yet forceful tone to proclaim the doctrine that became recognized as a philosophical position distinct from Idealism (Hegel) or the poetics of poetry (Holderlin) and ultimately ushered in the modern age in literature. At a time when the function of criticism is again coming under close skeptical scrutiny, Schlegel's unorthodox, highly original mind, as revealed in these foundational "fragments," provides the critical framework for reflecting on contemporary experimental texts.

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The Paradox of Existence: Philosophy and Aesthetics in the Young Schelling

The Paradox of Existence: Philosophy and Aesthetics in the Young Schelling
(Topoi Library)
by Leonardo V. Distaso

This essay reconstructs Schelling's philosophical development during the years 1794-1800. It emphasizes the role of Kant's heritage within Schelling's early philosophy, and the strong relationship between Schelling and Hölderlin during their Tübingen years. The central question it explores is how the Absolute relates to Finiteness - a relation that constitutes the basis of transcendental idealism as well as the essence of a transcendental philosophy, here radically understood as a philosophy of finitude and as a critical aesthetics. The essay shows the young Schelling as he presents a rich and novel field of inquiry, which provides a credible and engaging alternative to Hegelian thinking and anticipates themes from twentieth-century philosophy (Phenomenology, Existentialism, Critical Thinking). The volume thus provides both a historical and a contemporary look at Schelling's early philosophy, and at its original and speculative approach.

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The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time

The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time
(Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
by Jason M. Wirth

The Conspiracy of Life offers a series of meditations on the philosophy of F. W. J. Schelling (1775-1854), a great-and greatly neglected-philosopher of life. Rather than construing him as a loopy mystic, or as an antiquated theologian, Jason M. Wirth attempts to locate Schelling as the belated contemporary of thinkers like Heidegger, Derrida, Bataille, Irigaray, Foucault, Deleuze, Levinas, and many others. As such, Schelling is already at the central nerve of current discussions concerning the crisis of truth; the primacy of the Good; the ecstatic nature of time; the nature of art; deep ecology; the world as an aesthetic phenomenon; comparative philosophy; the possibility of non-dialectical philosophy; radical evil; the haunting of philosophy; and the possibility of a philosophical religion.


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Schelling - Historical-Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology

Historical-Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology
(S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling (Author), Jason M. Wirth (Foreword), Mason Richey (Translator), Marcus Zisselsberger (Translator)

Translated here into English for the first time, F. W. J. Schelling's 1842 lectures on the Philosophy of Mythology are an early example of interdisciplinary thinking. In seeking to show the development of the concept of the divine Godhead in and through various mythological systems (particularly of ancient Greece, Egypt, and the Near East), Schelling develops the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions. In so doing, he brings together the essential relatedness of the development of philosophical systems, human language, history, ancient art forms, and religious thought. Along the way, he engages in analyses of modern philosophical views about the origins of philosophy's conceptual abstractions, as well as literary and philological analyses of ancient literature and poetry.

"F. W. J. Schelling remains a uniquely passionate, daring, and untimely philosopher. Now, more than 150 years after these lectures were given in Berlin, his time has come. This material is always intriguing and often thrilling. Schelling's fertile imagination and prodigious learning are on full display here. Not only will those seeking a thought-provoking philosophy of mythology find this book rewarding, but also readers with interest in the philosophy of history, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of religion will be quickened by Schelling's forays in these areas. The translators, who have also provided copious notes and a glossary, have provided a genuine service." -- Bernard Freydberg, author of Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason


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