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21 Nov

New Translation of Laruelle’s ‘Biography of the Eye’

Biography of the Eye by François Laruelle Originally published as “Biographie de l’oeil,” La Decision philosophique 9 (1989): 93-104. for Adolfo Fernandez Zoila “Man is this night, this empty nothingness…
Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 2:26 am By Taylor Adkins 5 Replies
02 May

Ipseity and Illeity, or Thinking Ethics without the Other of the Other

In conversation three of Ethics and Infinity, Levinas recounts the philosophical and existential implications of the il y a, the ‘there is’ or what he calls the “phenomenon of impersonal…
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 6:39 pm By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
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28 May

Explosions in the Sky

Common to both capitalism and democracy is competition as the basic principle of social organization. Politics in a purely competitive key has a majoritarian ring — it is monistic, totalizing,…
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 11:16 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
14 Jan

Notes on Ethics and Difference

Notes on Ethics and Alterity 1. From Music Could we imagine that the ethical is a musical progression, and has the same sort of double articulation as a musical passage?
Monday, January 14, 2008 at 10:48 pm By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
21 Sep

Bakhtin’s Chronotopic Events: Notes on Novelistic Space-Time

Bakhtin, Mikhail. “Form of Time and Chronotope in the Novel.” The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Austin: UTP, 1981. 84-258. I apologize ahead of time for the informality…
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 9:48 pm By Taylor Adkins 6 Replies
22 Jun

Time Warp

A little time warp this time. This extract is from the first ‘series’ of scattered early writings, almost two years ago now. I hate looking at old stuff but in…
Friday, June 22, 2007 at 5:33 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
30 Mar

Against Culture

The identity of the same is an equivocation, a place without place. The “I am” is an assertion of allegiance before it attains any sort of meaningful substance, and this…
Friday, March 30, 2007 at 6:44 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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