January 2011
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Tim Laurie, "I Want Candy. Agency and Evaluation... →
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Music scholars frequently make evaluative claims about particular artists or genres, especially when considering the value of ‘popular’ music. This paper problematises the relationship between critical frameworks and objects of study, by investigating the agency of musical works in articulating the terms of their own comprehension, interpretation and reception. I examine Gilles...
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Gilles Deleuze a Vincennes. 1987. Cours sur l’Harmonie.
"Spoilers of Peace": Gilles Deleuze on Palestine →
This text originally appeared in Le Monde, April 7, 1978, and is reprinted in Two Regimes of Madness (Semiotexte, 2006)
How could the Palestinians be “genuine partners” in peace talks when they have no country? But how could they have a country when it was taken from them? The Palestinians were never given any choice other than unconditional surrender. All they were offered was ...
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TLS review of Roland Barthes' Preparation of the... →
The amazing about-face of Roland Barthes
Now available in English for the first time, a most unusual book by one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century
Mairéad Hanrahan
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Baudrillard and Film-Philosophy →
Film-Philosophy, 14/2 (2010). “Baudrillard and Film Philosophy”.
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FOUCAULT STUDIES: Number 10: November 2010:... →
Special Issue on Foucault and Agamben
Among other things:
Arne de Boever, “The Allegory of the Cage: Foucault, Agamben, and the Enlightenment”
Johanna Oksala, “Violence and the Biopolitics of Modernity”
Anke Snoek, “Agamben’s Foucault: An overview”
David Bleeden, “One Paradigm, Two Potentialities: Freedom, Sovereignty and Foucault in Agamben’s...
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Jacques Rancière on Martha Rosler: "The dialectic... →
“The view of the dead child in the beautiful apartment, with its bright walls and vast proportions, is certainly difficult to tolerate. But there is no particular reason why it should make those who see it conscious of the reality of imperialism and desirous of opposing it. The stock reaction to such images is to close one’s eyes or avert one’s gaze. Or, indeed, it is to incriminate the...
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Deleuze, Education and Becoming →
chikuwa4649:
By Inna Semetsky, PDF, 168 pages.