Upcoming Conferences of Interest

26Oct12

There a quite a few interesting philosophy and theory conferences coming up in the next few months so I thought I’d do a post here: Feminism, Science and Materialism Feb 14-15, 2013 Keynote: Karen Barad CUNY, NYC 1000 w abstracts due November 1, 2012 Duquesne Graduate Conference in Philosophy (Philosophy and Nature) Feb 23, 2013 […]

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Tags: Adrian Johnston, apocalypse, cuny, dolar, duqesne, karen barad, nature philosophy, Philosophy, politics, quantum physics, technology, villanova, Zizek, zupancic

The doom that came to Middlesex

29Apr10

Having just returned home from work I am late to hear that Middlesex has decided to terminate every component of its philosophy program. Posts abound with Nina already cataloging the response here. It is hard to believe that such a program could be so carelessly obliterated at the hands of academic bean counters but alas…capitalist […]

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Tags: middlesex, Philosophy, philosophy departments, save middlesex

Freedom’s Fairytale? Pt. 2 or Love and Temporality

19May08

In a recent episode of Lost entitled “The Constant”, Desmond, a character who up until the previous episode had believed to be clairvoyant, begins jumping back and forth through time – his visions acknowledged as incomplete memories. Desmond eventually learns that he has become ‘unstuck’ in time – his consciousness begins to swing back and […]

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Tags: Free Will, Lost, Love, Philosophy