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Étienne Balibar turns 82 years old today!
In celebrating his birthday, I am reposting a conversation Frank & I had with him.
He is undoubtedly one of the most important contemporary thinkers, an incredibly generous& kind person.

Happy birthday, Étienne!

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'Objection to scientific knowledge: this world doesn't _deserve_ to be known.' -- Cioran

Slavoj Žižek:

'Happy Birthday Kant, You Lousy Sadist'

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Happy birthday to two very strange bedfellows: Immanuel Kant and Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - Lenin.

'German endurance knows no limits - even in madness: Nietzsche endured his eleven years, Hölderlin forty' -- Cioran

For your weekend playlist:

1) Catherine Malabou, 2) Slavoj Žižek, 3) Cornel West, 4) Robert Pippin, 5) Jacques Rancière, 6) Judith Butler 7) Alenka Zupančič, 8) Étienne Balibar, 9) Sebastian Wolff.

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Malabou:

'The spirit that awakens knows also crises of somnambulism, delirious manias; at times it consults the stars or magnetizers, at times it weeps endlessly over those it has lost whom it never managed properly to mourn.'

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Althusser:

'Only a religion can pretend to ‘‘say everything.’’

Check out our two part interview with MLADEN DOLAR.

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The Ljubljana school, structuralist revolutions, reading Hegel through Lacan, May 68, & Žižek’s influence & lasting contributions to philosophy…Mladen was there for it all.

Excited that the new journal I am co-editing with Magdalena Zolkos has published it first issue! #Philosophy #politicaltheory #critique Edinburgh University Press

Zupančič:

'The (psychoanalytic) subject is nothing but the failure to become an (Althusserian) subject.”

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Part 2 of our interview w/ MLADEN DOLAR talking the early days of the Ljubljana school, the structuralist revolution, Hegel through Lacan, & the Frankfurt school.

Next up is our interview with SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK from our time with him in New York!

Re-reading Silvia Federici's 'Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women'.

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AK Press

Zupančič:

The bio-morality is replacing the classical notion of responsibility with the notion of a damaged, corrupt being: the unhappy &the unsuccessful are somehow corrupt already on the level of their bare life and all their erroneous actions or nonactions follow from there.

Jacques Rancière:  

'Une esthétique spinoziste est-elle pensable?'

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This is perhaps Žižek's most profound and in-depth engagement with Christianity.
An absolute must read!

Bloomsbury Philosophy

Zupancić:

'There is a spectacular rise of what we might call a bio-morality (as well as morality of feelings and emotions), which promotes the following fundamental axiom: a person who feels good (and is happy) is a good person; a person who feels bad is a bad person'