just storing this for later. it's a repository of works by Martin Shaw on questions of war, warfare, dialectics, and all other related matters.

I really hope the rumors are true that Balibar is coming to Chicago in the fall to give a series of lectures.

"On his first visit to the church he now belongs to, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Obama said, "I was introduced to Jesus in a way I had never been before." Part of his mission as a politician, he said, is "to go out and do the Lord's work." Recounting the biblical story of the Good Samaritan, Obama said, "Our commitment cannot rest so long as we are still divided by race" and have homeless veterans, poor schools, uninsured people and unemployed workers. "

what the fuck is that shit?
goddamit, will we ever see the end of jesus freaks in the white house??!!! FUCK!

Quoted: On his first visit to the church he now belongs to, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Obama said, "I was introduced to Jesus ...

part 2.
(see prev dot)

Shaviro has an interesting 2-part introduction discussion of Ranciere here which i found particularly provocative at points given his bent towards Kant and Deleuze.

i don't know if i like the ideas of this guy yet, but so far i'm intrigued enough to keep reading. he ties a lot of shit together, but i'm not clear as to the fundamental approach taken yet toward political economy.

Quoted: from an interview on his site: "Among the abiding questions at the intersection of economics and anthropology are the following: Is the economists’ aspiration to place human affairs on a rational footing an agenda worthy of anthropologists’ participation or just a bad dream? Since economics is a product of western civilization – and of the English-speaking peoples in particular – is any claim to universality bound to be ethnocentric? If capitalism is an economic configuration of recent origin, could markets and money be said to be human universals? Can markets be made more effectively democratic, with the unequal voting power of big money somehow neutralized? Can private and public interests be reconciled in economic organization or will the individualism of homo economicus inevitably prevail? Should the economy be isolated as an object of study or is it better to stress how economic relations are embedded in society and culture generally? None of these questions is exclusive to economic anthropology."

A conference about ontology and politics in light of Deleuze, Whitehead and Badiou. Oliver Feltham, Jeffrey Bell and Bruno Bosteels are going to be lecturing, among many others.

godammit! why do I always hear about these things too late? i still wanna go really bad though. really....bad....want...to...

Quoted: event and decision conference

In this interdisciplinary conference, the philosophies of Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead become sites for reflecting on Ontology and Politics in the many fields of its productive presence and novelty: philosophy, cultural studies, social and political theory, art, literature, and religion. How does the concerted call for the event uncover deep questions and directions of thought in the philosophies of Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead? How does an “ontology of decision,” an emphasis on event, multiplicity, and becoming change the framework and landscape in which these disciplines operate?

Lecturers

1. Jeffrey Bell, Southeastern Louisiana University
2. Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University
3. James Bradley, St. John’s, Newfoundland
4. David Brockman, Southern Methodist University
5. Justin Clemens, University of Melbourne
6. Roland Faber, Claremont Graduate University
7. Oliver Feltham, American University of Paris
8. Catherine Keller, Drew University
9. Henry Krips, Claremont Graduate University
10. Graham Livesey, University of Calgary
11. Helmut Maaßen, European Society For Process Thought
12. Keith Robinson, University of South Dakota
13. James Williams, University of Dundee
14. Adrian Parr, University of Cincinnati

Commentators

1. Philip Clayton, Claremont Graduate University
2. Anselm Min, Claremont Graduate University
3. Masahiro Yamada, Claremont Graduate University

Plenary Address

1. Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate University

WHOA! this looks good. the books is available entirely online, and its on Deleuze and Marx.
Levi Bryant's said the following about it (i haven't had time to read much of it) :
"Thoburn’s book on Deleuze and Guattari’s politics–...is well worth the read. The text is characterized by a sobriety, seriousness, and critical attentiveness to actually existing situations that is often lacking in studies of Deleuze (i.e., it doesn’t prattle on about “creating monsters” and speak as if politics simply consists in creating works of art or inventing new perversions). However, more importantly, the text works very closely with the works of Marx, taking up the Marxist question of how one might draw on the potentials haunting actually existing capitalism so as to shift our contemporary socio-political organization. As such, it rises to poses a very serious challenge to a number of criticisms of Deleuze and Guattari such as those found in Zizek, Badiou, and Hallward. This is one of the more exciting books I’ve read on Deleuze in some time."

Apparently chapter four is missing, but those who are interested can download it from Questia by doing free seven day trial with their service.

this guy teaches in my program here in Lo(w).
i didn't have time to finish the whole article, but I'm passing it along so that people can look at the whole volume, which has some other interesting-looking pieces in it too.

Quoted: If the cell form of capitalism is the commodity, the cellular form of a society beyond capital is the common. Nick Dyer-Witheford discusses the circulation ...