same as last dot. just keeping track of it.
and more props to dubya.

although, now that i read it, this remark from the blurb makes me want to read this like right now:
"Johnston develops a transcendental materialist theory of subjectivity—in short, an account of how more-than-material forms of subjectivity can emerge from a corporeal being."

this whole question of how the 'incorporeal' character of thought relates to the dimension of the corporeal has been at the forefront of my thinking lately. that and the Hen-Panta of Ferrera's face.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (SPEP): Adrian Johnston: Books

anyone read this, or know anything about it?

Quoted: Amazon.com: The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power: Travis Culley

"From Publishers Weekly
Puck, the scabby roommate from MTV's The Real World, remains the archetypal bike messenger: hyperkinetic, crass, hygienically challenged. But as Culley demonstrates in this exciting memoir of his years spent on two wheels, there's much more to the world of bike messengers than the stereotype. Many are artists, writers or revolutionariesACulley himself is all three. He got his start as a messenger in Chicago in the late 1990s by answering an ad in the newspaper after his small theater company went belly up. "The below-freezing winds burned my wrists and forearms," Culley says. "Thick bloodless cuts would open up along the lines of my fingerprints." He persevered and soon became (by his own description, at least) the fastest, best bike messenger in the city. Culley evokes the dangers of his profession, from careening taxis to yuppie road rage and broken bones. But there were also rewards, principally freedom from the cubicles of the corporate "wage slave." Culley's book is not just a memoir; it's also a political tract about the evils of the consumer economy and car-based capitalism. "The bicycle is a revolution," Culley says, "and I am using it like a hammer to change the world." Such statements may seem to many to veer toward the lunatic fringe, but to the bike messengers living on the edge of the system and constantly in danger from four-wheeled competitors, they'll make considerable sense. Offering a rare inside view of a maligned but ubiquitous urban subculture, this kinetic memoirAwhich is supported by a four-city author tour and ads in alternative weeklies"

Will - this dude is a student of Braudel...
thought you might be interested...

NEW TITLE FROM VERSO

Adam Smith in Beijing : Lineages of the Twenty-First Century
by Giovanni Arrighi
An authoritative exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of economic and commercial expansion in the world today
In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise invites us to read The Wealth of Nations in a radically different way than is usually done. He examines how the recent US attempt to bring into existence the first truly global empire in world history was conceived in order to counter China's spectacular economic success of the 1990s, and how the US's disastrous failure in Iraq has made the People’s Republic of China the true winner of the US War on Terror. In the 21st century, China may well become again the kind of noncapitalist market economy that Smith described, under totally different domestic and world-historical conditions.

(see prev dot first)

okay, apparently i've never read the New Statesman before, and this explains my surprise that they are completely conservative reactionaries.
cause they are and that's their thing, see?

this 'condemnation of postmodernism tout court' is one of the most ridiculous shrugging-offs of an entire generation of thought i've ever seen.

"When Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari say we should all become schizophrenic, when the gay Michel Foucault embraces the murderously homophobic Ayatollah Kho meini, when Zizek suggests a return to Leninist terror - these very positions are admissions that postmodernism is merely an unserious confection by intellectuals. It leads nowhere except to demoralisation and disaffection."

aww this hurts my ears more than an introductory class in existentialism from warnek.
ughhh.

Quoted: Johann Hari * The star philosopher Slavoj Zizek commits intellectual suicide in ...

how Sylvere Lotringer fucked over a good-willed translator.

Quoted: Grub Street Revisited
Semiotext(e) doyen Sylvère Lotringer tries to get his grubby paws in the honey pot

Known to many as an unassuming translator of Italian and French theory into English, for many years Arianna Bove has studied the question of ontology in the work of Michel Foucault. As part of her doctoral degree - awarded by the University of Sussex in 2005 - Arianna translated and published Foucault's own doctoral thesis, an investigation of Kant's Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view. She spent the summer of 2001 in the IMEC archives in Paris transcribing this little known text and painstakingly and diligently translating its contents in the hope that other serious scholars of Michel Foucault could also have access to the work. Both the English and French versions of the text were subsequently lawfully published as a part of her final thesis. And then along came M. Lotringer.
Below Arianna summarises the journey down Grub Street...