Meditations on breath and sexual difference Praxis/Theory: Between East and West By Arundhati Katju How can Luce Irigaray help us think through the difference between Eastern and Western thought? In Between East and West Irigaray offers two focal, intertwined points… Continue Reading
Nietzsche and the 20th-century Arab Intellectual Tradition Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto (Work in progress, please do not cite without permission of the author) Übrigens ist mir alles verhasst, was mich bloss belehrt, ohne meine Tätigkeit zu vermehren… Continue Reading
Notes on Nietzsche and Hélène Cixous When asked to comment on the relation between Hélène Cixous and Nietzsche by way of Cixous’s “Before the Law (Blanchot, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector)” in Readings (Minnesota 1991), I decided to take the suggested… Continue Reading
The Laugh of the Medusa
“Do you prefer to spill over or to taste your depths? When you soar highest, where do you go?” Marine Lover of Friederich Nietzsche Allow us the gesture of reading Nietzsche after feminism, or else, of returning to… Continue Reading
One of the themes that emerged from Nietzsche 6/13 on Césaire, Nietzsche, and the Struggle Against Colonialism, is the question of “essentialism”. In popular discourse, responses to anti-black racism often bring forth accusations of ‘counter’ or ‘reverse’ racism. In academia,… Continue Reading
Review of “Poetry and Knowledge” by Aimé Césaire Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. – Aimé Césaire (1990, p.17) The science versus art dichotomy is not a new one. It resonates closely… Continue Reading
By Joseph F. Lawless I will be speaking about the gift, about what it has meant and what it might mean to be situated within the gift event, about the discourse of gift-giving manifest within the work of Nietzsche and… Continue Reading
Nietzsche and Metaphor is Sarah Kofman’s attempt at a “Nietzschean reading of Nietzsche” (Kofman 1993, p.xxii). Whereas a significant amount of work on his thought is concerned with his larger ideas (Übermensch, Eternal Return, etc), Kofman’s is a primarily textual… Continue Reading
The philosopher Peter Hallward has explained that Frantz Fanon’s diagnosis of colonialism is “first and foremost an immense project to break the will of the colonised people” (2011, p.109). In other words, colonialism according to Fanon, was and attempt to… Continue Reading