January 02, 2008

New issues of journals

Theory and Event, volume 10, number 4 is out:

Nietzsche and the New Image of Thought
Brook M. Blair

The LSD-Event: Badiou Not on Acid
Arun Saldanha

Trauma and Community: The Visual Politics of Chinese Nationalism and Sino-Japanese Relations
William Callahan

The Effects of Viewing: Caravaggio, Bacon, and The Ring
Davide Panagia

The Democratic Deadlock
Jodi Dean

and, so is the International Journal of Zizek Studies, volume 1, number 4:

Why Heidegger Made the Right Step in 1933
        Slavoj Zizek

The Burning Cup: Or, Im Anfang war die Tat
        Richard Polt

Where’s the Point?  Slavoj Žižek and the Broken Sword
        Gregory Fried

Another Step, Another Direction: A Response to Zizek’s ‘Why Heidegger
Made The Right Step in 1933
        Miguel de Beistegui

The Life of the Universal: Response to Slavoj Zizek
        Bernhard Radloff

A Reply to Zizek (Forthcoming)
        Michael Lewis

Slavoj Žižek e l’immaginario
        Marco Senaldi

The Materialism of Spirit - Žižek and the Logics of the Political
        Glyn Daly

Fictional Symptoms in Lorrie Moore's "People Like That Are The Only People
Here"
        Tom Ratekin

De Maistre Avec De Sade, Zizek Contra De Maistre
        Matthew Sharpe

A Mass Media Cure for Auschwitz: Adorno, Kafka and Zizek
        Henry Krips

Jan 2, 2008 5:56:53 PM | Something new

5 Comments

Alain

Hi Jodi

I don't think the links are working.

Posted by: Alain | January 03, 2008 at 03:51 PM

Dejan

Would you PLEASE send me the article on Caravaggio and the Ring, I've been looking for something like that for ages because I wanted to compare it to the use of the Ring in Twin Peaks, please!

Posted by: Dejan | January 04, 2008 at 11:17 AM

Jodi

Alain--theory and event is behind a firewall; I hoped that the link would work, but I guess not.

Dejan--the article can be accessed at the IJZS, which I linked to in the post and which is on my link list.

Posted by: Jodi | January 04, 2008 at 11:11 PM

Dejan

Jodianne,

The Effects of Viewing: Caravaggio, Bacon, and The Ring
Davide Panagia

is apparently only available to the staff and students of your academy, so if you'd please send it to me I would be so grateful I would give you another Parody Oscar!

Posted by: Dejan | January 05, 2008 at 07:06 PM

Dejan

Jodianne,

The Effects of Viewing: Caravaggio, Bacon, and The Ring
Davide Panagia

is apparently only available to the staff and students of your academy, so if you'd please send it to me I would be so grateful I would give you another Parody Oscar!

Posted by: Dejan | January 05, 2008 at 07:07 PM

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