FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Slavoj Žižek
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Thinking Things with Graham Harman: Whitehead’s Way Beyond Philosophies of Human Access
Rahul Samaranayake has had me on his podcast a few times over the years, including an especially generative conversation with Peter Rollins last year. This time he invited me and Graham Harman into dialogue.…
Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Bruno Latour, David Chalmers, Descartes, Emmanuel Levinas, Evan Thompson, Fichte, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, Henri Bergson, Hume, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, Schelling, Slavoj Žižek, speculative realism, Spinoza, Steven Shaviro, Wittgenstein -
Reflections on My Dialogue with Peter Rollins: Pyrotheology Meets Process Theology
Earlier today I had the chance to speak with Peter Rollins on Rahul Sam’s podcast (video below). The conversation brought up many threads that have shaped my life over the last two decades.…
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Re-Thinking Economics and the Meaning of Value with Tim Adalin and O. G. Rose
It was a genuine joy to be in dialogue with Daniel and Tim yesterday. I want to reflect on some of what I shared during our discussion. The first thing…
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Naturphilosophie as Process Philosophy in Schelling and Whitehead
Christopher Satoor and I discussed Schelling, his German Idealist context, and Whitehead’s inheritance of Schellingian ideas about mind and nature.
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Brian Swimme, Carl Jung, Darwin, Descartes, Edmund Husserl, Fichte, Gilles Deleuze, Goethe, Graham Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, Hume, Iain Hamilton Grant, imagination, Jakob Böhme, Kant, Ken Wilber, Meister Eckhart, Modern Philosophy, Plato, politics, reason, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, Slavoj Žižek, speculative realism, William James -
Immanent Law, Transcendent Love, and Political Theology
I’m going to attempt to clarify my own position in relation to that of Levi Bryant’s on the issue of the potential role of religion in revolutionary politics. Bryant has…
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Simon Critchley’s “Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology”
Just ordered his newest book Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology (2012) after watching Critchley and Cornel West’s recent discussion. There are many reviews of the book around, but…
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[Rough Draft] “The Re-Emergence of Schelling” – Literature review
Again, sorry for the lack of italics. I don’t know how to paste from Pages while keeping the formatting. For a PDF of the document (with italics in tact!), click: The…
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Zizek on Al Jazeera – “Now the Field is Open”
Al Jazeera brings us Zizek on the crisis of capitalism. “The world is asking for a real alternative.”
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Žižek on the worldlessness of global capitalism
He nails it (from a recent column in the London Review of Books about the UK riots): “Alain Badiou has argued that we live in a social space which is increasingly…
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Post-Secular Spirituality
Michael over at Archive Fire recently linked to a published essay by a friend and former colleague at CIIS, Annick Hedlund-de Witt. Annick researches the way changing world-views in America and Europe stand to…
