Book Review
Posted by Farhang Erfani on July 5th, 2008
A review of Allen Wood’s Kantian Ethics
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on July 5th, 2008
A review of Allen Wood’s Kantian Ethics
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on July 5th, 2008
Judith Butler,‘What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue’
Robert J.C. Young,‘Foucault on Race and Colonialism’
Scu’s new blog, Critical Animal, entries on Foucault’s ‘Society Must Be Defended’
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on July 5th, 2008
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on July 4th, 2008
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on July 3rd, 2008
Russian Aesthetics under Capitalism
Russian Aesthetics under Capitalism: An Introduction — Yulia Tikhonova
Why I Am a Marxist — Vladislav Sofronov
The Theory of Marxism: Questions and Answers — Vladislav Sofronov; Fredric Jameson; Jack Amariglio; Yahya M. Madra
The Karl Marx School of the English Language — David Riff
You Can’t Anticipate Explosions: Jacques Rancière in Conversation with Chto Delat — Jacques Rancière; Artemy Magun; Dmitry Vilensky; Alexandr Skidan
Profanation of the Profane, or, Giorgio Agamben on the Moscow Biennale — Alexei Penzin
The Story of Angry Sandwich People, or, In Praise of Dialectics — David Riff; Dmitry Vilensky
Legally Soviet: A Conversation — Yevgeniy Fiks; Olga Kopenkina
Foucault, Marxism, and the Cuban Revolution: Historical and Contemporary Reflections — Sam Binkley; Jorge Capetillo-Ponce
Foucault and the “New Man”: Conversations on Foucault in Cuba — Sam Binkley; Jorge Capetillo-Ponce
Massive Change: The Exhibit as Apology for “New Capitalism” — Lauren Langman
From Principle to Context: Marx versus Nozick and Rawls on Distributive Justice — Xiaoping Wei
Development, Capitalism, and Socialism: A Marxian Encounter with Rabindranath Tagore’s Ideas on the Cooperative Principle — Anjan Chakrabarti; Anup Kumar Dhar
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on July 2nd, 2008
NYRB: By Mary Beard
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes, by Jim Holt
Just over halfway up the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome is a memorable, and unsettling, scene. Although practically invisible from ground level, and almost crowded out by the images of violent conflict between Roman legions and German tribes which spiral up the shaft, it has often caught the attention of archaeologists. For it shows a young child being torn from the arms of his German mother by a Roman soldier–and still reaching out to her, as he is roughly hauled away.
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on July 1st, 2008
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on June 30th, 2008
Articles are available here
Frederic Will — Can We Get Inside the Aesthetic Sensibility of the Archaic Past?
Maryvonne Saison — “The People Are Missing”
Thomas Leddy — The Aesthetics of Junkyards and Roadside Clutter
Emmanouil Aretoulakis — Aesthetic Appreciation, Ethics, and 9/11
Dan Disney — Toward a Poeticognosis: Re-reading Plato’s The Republic via Wallace Stevens’ “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven”
Jonathan Davis — Questioning “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”: A Stroll around the Louvre after Reading Benjamin
Grant Tavinor — Definition of Videogames
SYMPOSIUM: Danto’s The Transfiguration of the Commonplace Twenty-Five Years Later
Ivan Gaskell — The Riddle of a Riddle
Thomas E. Wartenberg — Not Just Mere Things
Cynthia Freeland — Danto and Art Criticism
Arthur C. Danto — Ontology, Criticism, and the Riddle of Art Versus Non-Art in The Transfiguration of the Commonplace
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Posted by Farhang Erfani on June 30th, 2008
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