Cum On Feel the Noize

Review of Greg Hainge, Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise, New York: Bloomsbury, 201

The Life of the Party: A Brief Note on Nietzsche’s Ethics

As a philologist, Nietzsche had to be a materialist – a materialist of letters. If letters are not life, however, they are the indices of its limits. You can’t live except at the limit; to get to a limit, you have to reconstruct a genealogy for yourself; once you know where you are, you have the opportunity to lose yourself again, this time effectively. Life is whatever will have greeted you in that loss, the disappearance at the limit

Of Avatars and Apotheoses. David Fallon’s Blake

Članek prinaša sinoptični pregled nekaterih tem sodobnega Blakovega kriticizma, sklene pa se z recenzijo knjige Davida Fallona: Blake, Mit in razsvetljenstvo: Politika apoteoze, v kateri je apoteoza obravnavana z vidika mitične, literarne in realistične uporabe.This paper provides a synoptic account of some of the themes of contemporary Blake criticism, culminating in a review of David Fallon’s Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment: The Politics of Apotheosis, in which apotheosis is considered through its mythic, literary and realist uses

Had We But Worlds Enough, and Time, This Absolute, Philosopher...

In Logiques des Mondes, Paris, Seuil, 2006, Alain Badiou has produced a sequel to his magnum opus Being and Event. Whereas Being and Event primarily restricted itself to the relationship between ontology and the event, mathematics and poetry, the new book seriously extends and revises certain of its predecessor#39;s propositions in order to construct a logic of different 'worlds'; This article outlines some of the major doctrines, arguments, and motivations for the new work, as well as several points of possible difficulty

Oath, torture, testimony: language, law and life in the work of Giorgio Agamben

In this paper, I will argue that Giorgio Agamben has provided for a radical theory of the import of torture on human life, one that provides a different genealogy and projects different implications for the relation between torture and politics than have otherwise been given. I will begin by examining some of the features of the current, post-September 11 ‘debate’ about torture, before moving to an exegesis of Agamben’s theses and their import for thinking politics today.En este ensayo, defenderé que Giorgio Agamben ha propuesto las bases de una teoría radical de la importancia de la tortura sobre la vida humana, que proporciona una diferente genealogía de la misma y proyecta diferentes implicaciones para la relación entre tortura y política de las que se han dado hasta la fecha. Quiero comenzar por examinar alguno de aquellos rasgos del debate actual sobre la tortura tras el 11 de septiembre, antes de pasar a una exégesis de las tesis de Agamben y su importancia para el pensamiento político actual

The Age of Plastic; or, Catherine Malabou on the Hegelian Futures Market

Review Article:  Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic, preface J. Derrida, trans. L. During, London & New York, Routledge, 2005

Galileo’s Telescope in John Milton’s Paradise Lost: the Modern Origin of the Critique of Science as Instrumental Rationality?

“Almost in the same historical moment when Galileo directed all modern physics to the reading of that book which Nature was supposed to have written herself in geometric or, subsequently, algebraic signs, the modern novel and modern theatre stepped in as evidence that modern readers and spectators enjoy the effects of those fictions most of all when they are altogether free of science.”Friedrich Kittler, “Man as a drunken town musician

Syllable as Syntax: Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de dés

Met kock je mojstrovina moderne literature in nekakšen povzetek življenjskega dela Stéphana Mallarméja. Delo ne bi moralo bolje služiti pisateljem in mislecem: na eni strani je v trenutku spremenilo področje takrat delujočih pesnikov – še tako različnih, kot sta Paul Valéry in Christopher Brennan, kot tudi njunih številnih naslednikov; na drugi strani pa je močna struja evropske filozofije – kot so Maurice Blanchot, J.-P. Sartre, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, J.-C. Milner, Quentin Meillassoux in številni drugi pesnitev označila za miselni dogodek. Soočen z zaporedjem pesniških in filozofskih komentarjev, se sodobni bralec upravičeno znajde v metodološki in intelektualni zagati. Kakšen bi bil lahko prispevek k danemu zaporedju branj, ki ne bi tudi sam postal nadštevno število, ki bi zmerom lahko bilo drugo? Toda kako se lahko izognemo občutku, da samo zaporedje zahteva dodatno štetje ozrioma naštevanje operacij te pesnitve? Prispevek oriše nekaj hipotez glede temeljev Mallarméjeve pesnitve z vidika novega razmerja med zlogom in skladnjo, kot ga vpelje Mallarmé.Un Coup de dés is one of the masterworks of modern literature, and a kind of summa of Stéphane Mallarmé’s lifework. It could not have been better served by writers and thinkers: on the one hand, it immediately transformed the field for working poets as different as Paul Valéry and Christopher Brennan, as for so many more thereafter; on the other, a strong lineage of European philosophy registered the poem as an event for thought, encompassing Maurice Blanchot, J.-P. Sartre, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, J.-C. Milner, Quentin Meillassoux, and many others. Confronted by this sequence of commentaries by poets and philosophers, a contemporary reader could be forgiven for experiencing a methodological and intellectual impasse. How could one add to this sequence of readings except as a supernumerary number that could always be another? Yet how could one also not feel that the sequence itself demands another numbering or enumeration of the operations of the poem? This paper sketches out a sequence of hypotheses regarding the foundations of Mallarmé’s poem in a new relation that he forges between syllables and syntax

Oath, torture, testimony: language, law and life in the work of Giorgio Agamben

In this paper, I will argue that Giorgio Agamben has provided for a radical theory of the import of torture on human life, one that provides a different genealogy and projects different implications for the relation between torture and politics than have otherwise been given. I will begin by examining some of the features of the current, post-September 11 ‘debate’ about torture, before moving to an exegesis of Agamben’s theses and their import for thinking politics today.En este ensayo, defenderé que Giorgio Agamben ha propuesto las bases de una teoría radical de la importancia de la tortura sobre la vida humana, que proporciona una diferente genealogía de la misma y proyecta diferentes implicaciones para la relación entre tortura y política de las que se han dado hasta la fecha. Quiero comenzar por examinar alguno de aquellos rasgos del debate actual sobre la tortura tras el 11 de septiembre, antes de pasar a una exégesis de las tesis de Agamben y su importancia para el pensamiento político actual