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November 26, 2008
ccindexed
Urbanomic is very pleased to be included in contemporary culture index. Ccindex is a multidisciplinary database indexing international journals and periodicals, and is an invaluable and unique resource offering a detailed searchable record of many current and past publications which fall outside the remit of major academic and specialist databases. Anyone can register for free, to browse and search ccindex.
November 25, 2008
Parallax + Digicult
parallax 49: Law and Visual Culture (oct-dec 08), includes a short review of Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound by Collapse editor R Mackay. Details should appear here eventually.
And for italophone VJ theorists, a review by the same author of VJAM Theory, grandly titled Teorie in Movimento, appears here, in Digicult's Digimag 39
November 23, 2008
New Parrhesia
New issue of Parrhesia is now available online. Contents include:
FEATURES
'You cannot make a living just being a theoretician': An Interview with Jean-Michel Rabaté With Jeroen Lauwers & Thomas Van Parys
Michel Foucault, Philosopher? A Note on Genealogy and Archaeology
Rudi Visker
ESSAYS
Beyond Resistance: a response to Zizek's critique of Foucault's subject of freedom
Aurelia Armstrong
Alain Badiou: Problematics and the Different Senses of Being in Being and Event
Sean Bowden
Eugen Fink and the Question of the World
Stuart Elden
Between Rupture and Repetition: Intervention and Evental Recurrence in the Thought of Alain Badiou
Hollis Phelps
REVIEWS
Jeff Malpas, Heidegger's Topology
Miguel de Beistigui
Steven Crowell and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Transcendental Heidegger
Ingo Farin
Eric Paras, Foucault 2.0: Beyond Power and Knowledge
Sam Rocha
November 19, 2008
Speculative Controversy
Nathan Brown replies to Peter Hallward's Review (in Radical Philosophy 152) of Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude : on Speculative Heresy
November 16, 2008
EPISODE
Information on an upcoming London event at which Collapse contributor Graham Harman will be speaking:
EPISODE: Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens-based Media
A one-day conference at Tate Britain
Friday 28th November 2008 10.00 - 1800
Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1A
£35 (£25 concessions), booking recommended
Includes drinks reception at the launch of the new book:
'Episode: Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens-based Media', published by Artwords Press.
For tickets call 020 7887 8888
or visit: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/
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Media-culture is an undeniable force in our lives. Its pervasive and pleasurable power has primarily been located in discourses on 'spectacle' and the persistent connections between technology and power in democracy. But when artworks can be seen to share the same experiential field as media-culture, both using and producing a media-culture, the question of how our experiences of it constitute the political is now imperative. How do media-culture and artworks, and the spaces they inhabit, produce and reform the naturalised and assumed realities of everyday praxis?
The research group Curating Video present a one-day conference on Friday 28th November 2008 at Tate Britain inviting nine speakers from the fields of visual arts, art history, cultural studies, media studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis and cultural studies to explore a new matrix of issues that have become crucial to the understanding of the affect of mediated images in our lives. Rethinking the power of fact that images generate, this conference seeks to put forth new dialogues, strategies and propositions to explore what is
now at stake for a politics of the mediated image.
Speakers include:
Bridget Crone, Director, Media Art Bath;
Dr. Graham Harman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy,
American University in Cairo, Egypt;
Professor Ahuvia Kahane, Director, Arts & Humanities Research
Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London;
Dr. Sharon Kivland, artist & Reader in Fine Art, Sheffield
Hallam University;
Professor Norman Klein, California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles, USA;
Dr. Suhail
Malik, Critical Studies Course Leader for Postgraduate Fine Art in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths,
University of London;
Dr. Philippe-Alain Michaud, Film Curator, Musée national d'Art Moderne, Centre
Georges-Pompidou, Paris;
Dr. Uriel Orlow, artist & AHRC research fellowship in Creative Arts at the
University of Westminster;
Dr. Johanna Sumiala, Lecturer at the Department of Communication,
University of Helsinki, Finland.
Throughout the day, three panels will each be chaired by Dr. Amanda Beech, Dr. Jaspar Joseph Lester, and
Matthew Poole.
