Inter-disciplinary.net and At the Interface holds a conference on Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. I have had a paper accepted on Cloverfield and the evil of terrorism. The abstract is below.
Cloverfield’s monster is effective precisely because we never really see it, because it remains in our peripheral vision and seems […]
Louis Althusser, in his essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (which is available online here), argues for an interconnection between the subject and ideology. It is also here that he develops his basic argument for interpellation. The following is a brief discussion of this, but I’m not trying to be particularly innovative or say anything […]
By Steen | January 23, 2007
This is a book that I know I don’t fully understand, but it really doesn’t matter. The reason I don’t understand it, is the fact that it deals extensively with philosophy, primarily moral and political. This is a subject that I only have cursory knowledge of, but the novel is still fabulously funny.
A few notes from David Harvey’s excellent work The Condition of Postmodernity. In the following, I am mostly interested in his concept of time-space compression and the cultural and aesthetic responses to it.
A sequl to Empire, this book examines the “other side” of Empire; ie. the different groups and formations that resist Empire. Much of the book is a historical in addition to a philosophical investigation of these developments. The most useful aspect of their book, is the concept of the multitude, which allows for a broader […]
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