By Emily Apter In his post for this week’s 13/13 Bernard Harcourt exhorts us to essentially “forget Nietzsche” (using Nietzsche contra Nietzsche, as only Nietzsche might commission his own, nihilistic self-forgetting); to provincialize Nietzsche in line with Dipesh Chakrabarthy’s injunction… Continue Reading
By Joseph F. Lawless In 1296, the city-state of Venice declared its spectacular Carnevale a government-sanctioned festival, employing ornate ritual and bacchanalian excess to publically inscribe the brilliance of Venetian history. Throughout the festival, the Venetian state presented the past… Continue Reading
Livestream of Alan Badiou NOW at the CCCCT: Find attached Alain Badiou’s article, “Who is Nietzsche?”, published in Pli 11 (2001): 1-11.
By Vered Engelhard While a number of my professors told me that they do not participate on social media for political reasons, I couldn’t help thinking about how my generation doesn’t have the luxury of withholding our information from the… Continue Reading
By Jiwon Hahn Employing Nietzsche’s concept of eternal return, Maurice Blanchot explores the temporality of writing, reading, and speaking as well as their plurality and relationship to self. In Blanchot’s view, Zarathustra’s announcement of the God’s death marks both the… Continue Reading
By Lea Jenny Sophia Gekle In the discussion following the 2/13 Nietzsche session, Prof. R. C. Morris was asked by the participants of the seminar session to expand upon two concepts that she had introduced in the day’s presentation. One… Continue Reading
By John Rajchman By ‘Deleuze’s Nietzsche’, I don’t mean simply what Deleuze wrote about Nietzsche but also how Nietzsche figured in the larger ‘image of thought’ he tried to work out throughout his career and the new ideas or questions… Continue Reading
Before I begin, I would like to sincerely thank Bernard E. Harcourt, Jesus R. Velasco, and their whole team for this invitation. After many years work, following behind Foucault, on the birth of American neo-liberalism, your invitation gave me a… Continue Reading
In the short time available I want to ask some questions and present an “application” of Deloozian thinking to my fieldwork in the swamps of northern Colombia subject to paramilitary-backed African Palm plantations displacing peasant farmers. Questions: How does one… Continue Reading
After reading Annelies Shuldte-Nordholt’s text, I completely agree with the idea that Blanchot’s relationship to Nietzsche is never to be taken in isolation, but always in “constellations” where Nietzsche appears at the same time as a “companion” to other author (or a latent source… Continue Reading