Sean Noah Walsh (FIU): Masters of Hyperreality: Injustice in the Discourse of Deconstruction. Jan Jagodzinski (Alberta): Struggling with Zizek's Ideology: The Deleuzian Complaint, Or, Why is Zizek a Disguised Deleuzian in Denial? Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy (UWO): What’s the "Matter"...
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As a promo for Matthew Taylor's annual lecture as RSA chief executive on thursday , Madeleine Bunting - who will be chairing the meeting - writes in the Guardian that Taylor's talk will presage his coming publication on the idea of a 21st century enlightenment which like the original enlightenment...
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From In These Times, why do they want to do us harm? Helen Thomas asked the question, the White House stonewalled, here are answers (and part 2 and part 3). Olivier Roy talks to Eren Gvercin about issues central to the debate about Islam in Europe, from revolutionary milleniarism to Muslim Luthenarianism....
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From Collegium Dave Laing of the Institute for Popular Music in Liverpool provides insights into the present state of the global music industry in World Music and the Global Music Industry: Flows,Corporations and Networks For the rest of this special issue on music click here
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Scientists have extracted DNA from a bone discovered in Siberia that almost certainly belongs to a new kind of human species one that may have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago. Will this transform our views of human evolution? First it was thought Homo sapiens were the only human species, then Homo...
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A couple of pieces by/on Tony Judt. This article by Judt on the need for a new way forward in politics in The Guardian. There is an insightful interview with Judt in The LRB.
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