In the new JFFP, Douglas Low writes on Merleau-Ponty's reading of Husserl's 'The Origin of Geometry,' drawing critical contrast with Derrida's reading of the same. Interesting essay with a lot to say about perception, meaning, and difference.

Read here:

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Some of my favorite digital archives

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium: iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view……

Walter Benjamin Digital: walter-benjamin.online

Hannah Arendt's Papers: memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendtht……

NYPL Digital Collections: digitalcollections.nypl.org

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With critical relation to Lacan', Jacqueline Dalziell's 'Testing Anthropocentrism: Lacan and the Animal Imago' focuses on 'the chimpanzee as a site of ethological comparison which in effect provides an animal analogue to the mirror stage phenomenon.'

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Philip Mills' essay 'The Seduction of Metaphors' offers a really compelling reflection on the rhetorical and performative work of metaphors by way of Nietzsche and Cixous.

Read here: jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/jffp/artic…

Alžbeta Kuchtová and Rui Matsuba discuss the meaning of hunger in Levinas' work in a series of incisive reflection. Read 'La radicalité du manger' (en français) here w/o paywall:

jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/jffp/artic…

Michael Steinmetz offers 'an interpretation of the interrelation of hermeneutics and dialectic in the context of Ricœur’s theory of the self' in the new issue of the Journal. Great stuff, take time to read (w/o paywall, as always). Smart and interesting:

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Jacob Saliba deploys Jean-Paul Sartre's work to describe pain from an existential-phenomenological perspective. Smart and compelling essay.

Read without paywall here:

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Espen Dahl and Theodor Sandal Rolfsen explore the limits and possibilities of a phenomenology of pain and pleasure, working from the insights of Michel Henry and Emmanuel Levinas. Really interesting stuff, no paywall.

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New issue of the Journal includes these provocative reflections on Foucault and neoliberalism - great essay by Tim Christiaens. Read and share, really fantastic work here.

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'...in the wake of terror, enslavement, colonialism and violence, is there a place for literature? Where is there a place for the author?' Read Sophia Jahadhmy's brilliant piece in the new issue of the Journal - no paywall - here:

jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/jffp/artic…

Our podcast is back from hiatus with this fantastic conversation - Drew M. Dalton talks about his new book The Matter of Evil, just out with Northwestern University Press. Listen in!

Available here or on most streaming services under Conversations in Atlantic Theory:

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This year is the 150th anniversary since Spain ended slavery in #PuertoRico in 1873. Through our collections, examine the island’s history from a former Spanish colony to U.S. territory. #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth #SchomburgCenter nypl.org/blog/2023/09/1…

JOB OPPORTUNITY
Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies (tenure-track)

The newly-formed Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) at Stanford University is searching for scholars who research and teach in the field of Caribbean Studies.

caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/assistant-prof…

A really interesting piece by Bright Gyamfi, from last October's issue of African Studies Review: 'The Africa-Diaspora Orbit: Anani Dzidzienyo’s Contributions to African/Black Studies and Black Liberation'

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Conversations in Atlantic Theory • Rima Vesely-Flad on Black Buddhists & the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation

newblackmaninexile.net/2023/07/conver… via Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy

One last link for Frantz Fanon's birthday: a long conversation, via our podcast Conversations in Atlantic Theory, w/Nigel Gibson, Rosemere Ferreira da Silva, and Lou Turner about the collection Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth

open.spotify.com/episode/7uiZpE…