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.”
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Fastest Gun in the Continent [Comic]
Sartre and Heidegger go head-to-head in a duel.
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.
Fifth Annual Radical Democracy Conference
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Philosophers Make the Worst Tech Support [Comic]
The latest from Existential Comics.
Clickhole’s Latest Hilarious Punchline is Michel Foucault
In this video, entitled “This Teen Has An Inspiring Message For His Bully, Then Gets Totally Owned By The Bully’s Surprisingly Convincing Rebuttal,” a bullied teen stands up and proclaims to his aggression: “You don’t have the right!”
There’s a Book about Communism for Kids Coming Soon (Hopefully)
If you’re anything like me – you probably stay up at night figuring out new ways to corrupt America’s youth.
How do I get teenagers to stop buying iPads and start fomenting class revolution, and more importantly, how do I make my friend’s toddler throw off the ideological shackles thrown upon them by Dora the Explorer everyday from 11:30 AM to noon?
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.
7 Totally Continental Moments in Gilmore Girls
Stars Hallow: A secret haven for continental philosophy and critical theory?
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.”