Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living

Revisiting

I wish I read Spanish. Paulo Virno has just edited a book on Argentina. And it features a discussion of the “polemic between N. Chomsky and M. Foucault.”

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Adapting a Woody Allen joke

So, Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault are in some kind of critical theory afterlife. They get talking, and at some point Foucault asks Benjamin, “Do you think sex is boring?” Benjamin grins and nods, and says, “Yes, if you do it right.”

Curse you, Richard Dawkins

I had intended to return to a more regular blogging schedule with one or more tremendously scholarly posts about silent films. Obviously, the problem there is that I then don’t write anything at all until I’ve got time to discuss the finer details of Hegel’s relationship to Buster Keaton. So, thanks to Rachel for tagging […]

Why is Habermas so dumb?

Maybe I subsconsciously believe the analytic misrepresentations of Derrida. At least, I wouldn’t have expected that in a debate between Derrida and Habermas, it would be Derrida who provides the lucid, rigorous arguments. But what else are we to make of passages like this: The specialized languages of science and technology, law and morality, economics, […]