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How a Book on Nihilism Ended Up on Jay-Z’s Back and Glenn Beck’s Show
A New School professor’s book ended up in fashion magazines and music videos before setting off conservative alarmist.
Submit Your Essays! Unbecoming Queer Narratives
You’ve got until December 1!
Submit Your Papers! Discipline and Punish 40 Years On
Nottingham Trent University is now accepting submissions for their 2015 conference on Michel Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish.” The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2015.
Submit Your Papers! Critical Animal Studies Conference 2015
The Institute for Critical Animal Studies is now accepting submissions for their 2015 conference to be held at Binghamton University.
The conference will be held from April 17-19, 2015. The deadline for submissions is January 10, 2015.
Editor Calls Badiou a “Frozen Dinosaur,” Badiou Gives the Perfect Response
Earlier this month Laurent Joffrin, Editorial Director of the French publication Libération, criticized Alain Badiou for his take on the Chinese Cultural Revolution. It wasn’t just his criticism that drew Badiou’s ire, but his choice words – Joffrin said Badiou “was a kind of Maoist dinosaur lost in our time.”
Submit Your Papers! Fifth Annual Radical Democracy Conference
The New School for Social Research is now accepting submissions for their fifth annual Radical Democracy conference in New York City. This year's keynote speaker will be Michael Hardt, author of the acclaimed "Empire" series with Antonio Negri.
Read the full call for papers below.
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Submit Your Papers! Vassar Journal of Philosophy
You’ve got until February.
Hannah Arendt Gets a Google Doodle
Today is Hannah Arendt’s birthday, and Google has modified their homepage in select countries to celebrate the occasion.
Zizek’s Latest Plagiarism Scandal is a Non-Issue
Earlier this week, yet another plagiarism allegation was brought against Slavoj Zizek. The Slovenian cultural theorist, who previously apologized for accidentally plagiarizing a white supremacist magazine and later got in trouble with the New York Times for self-plagiarism, is now accused of lifting a paragraph from Jean-Marie Muller in his book “Violence.”