Paint it Black

"A swarming machine that blackly paints glass"; further work needed

Apocalypse Again

Another chance to read my piece on Eurozine; unremixed I'm afraid. Currently working on my paper for Rotterdam, which will focus on political disorientation as self-serving motif, the concrete v. the abstract, and the relation of politics and philosophy, all via Kant, Heidegger and Schmitt, with perhaps some Badiou/Jameson thrown in (as the bifurcation of 'political' Marxism and 'economist' Marxism). Then on to the planning for HM 2010 and, volcano willing, a holiday...

Saturday chairing a panel at this internal event if you're on the south coast and the weather isn't good... Starts at 1pm, registration shortly before

service update

Thanks to Rob

indexing

TRG event next week (x-advertised)

It's here, you are welcome, and if you don't know the place contact me via here.

My Letter to Middlesex

Dear Professor Driscoll, Professor Ahmad, Professor House, and Professor Esche,

I am writing to protest at the decision to close the philosophy department at Middlesex University and to urge you to urgently reconsider. My reason for writing is my dismay at the threat to such a valuable and internationally recognised philosophy department, and to those who teach, research, and learn in the department. Working myself in the field of Continental philosophy I have regularly attended events organised by your philosophy department, I use and engage with work published by the staff, and have personally been in dialogue with Professor Peter Hallward. I also regularly read and cite material published by the journal Radical Philosophy, which is edited from Middlesex, and I know as friends and colleagues many who have attended and graduated from the philosophy programme at Middlesex. I can personally and professionally attest to the centrality and importance of the philosophy department at Middlesex to the field, and to Britain's cultural engagement with philosophy.

The philosophy department has made a sustained, innovative, and profound impact on the field, making Middlesex known as a university that encourages and develops teaching and research that has shaped contemporary culture. Middlesex is abandoning this reputation by closing the philosophy department and, once again, I would urge you to reconsider your decision.

Yours sincerely,
Dr Benjamin Noys
Reader in English, The University of Chichester

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The individual, in truth, is nothing ... the nothing that must be dissolved into a we-subject
- Alain Badiou


Metallurgy of the Subject is an attempt to present philosophical re-conceptions of community and communism allegorically as an alchemical process of sacrificial transmutation.


Animation. Accompanied by:
Kinetic rubber sculptures jerk and flap about. Spastic decor. A chorus of idiots.