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• Foucault on Writing and Death

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 430
  As part of his highly influential 1979 essay, What is an Author?, French theorist Michel Foucault reflects on the symbiosis of writing and death in literature: [...] The second theme is even more familiar: it is the kinship between writing and death. This relationship inverts the age-old conception of Greek narrative ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908-2009

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 430
  While I was away this week, I was surprised to hear the news that anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss has passed away. My own interests are anthropological only in the loosest sense, but the influence of Lévi-Strauss became massively influential across a broad range of cultural academic disciplines: The fame of ...
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• "How Do I Explain That My Coworkers A Raving Lunatic?" [Ask Dorothy Parker]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 825
  Oh dear. Theres a very troubling letter in todays Financial Times by a distraught citizen with a dodgy coworker. Really, there was nothing to do but get the opinions of a bunch of dead people, without delay. My colleagues and I are convinced that one of our co-workers is insane. The details are bizarre and too ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) -...

  
  chacal does tumblng — Authority: 131
  Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss was an avatar of “structuralism,” a school of thought in which universal “structures” were believed to underlie all human activity, giving shape to seemingly disparate cultures and creations. His work was a ...
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• Aimless Reading: The Es, Part 1.1 (Umberto Eco)

  
  Pearlblossom Highway — Authority: 425
  Foucaults Pendulum Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Eco, Umberto Foucaults Pendulum I think this book belongs to Lori. I am sure I never bought or read it. I have a recollection of having tried to read it once, before I met Lori, but I have no idea if it was my copy or someone elses. I know it was not ...
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• From the Archives: Claude Levi-Strauss

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 146
  French social anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss died over the weekend at the age of 100.  His theory of structuralism was a major influence on such titans of philosophy as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. Back in 1967, TNRs  Patrick Gallagher reviewed his seminal work The Savage Mind , which sought to ...
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• Homo economicus 2.0

  
  ANTHEM — Authority: 108
  In the June 2004 issue of the Economic Sociology Newsletter [PDF] the following exchange took place between the interviewee (Søren Jagd) and Laurent Thévenot (“The French Convention School and the Coordination of Economic Action,” p.  13): Question: Michel Callon argues that the model of economic man could ...
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• Conceptualizing the “liberal bias” of academia

  
  Leitourgeia kai Qurbana: Contra den Zeitgeist — Authority: 416
  Have I mentioned I’m glad I’m not a modern historian? Seriously. So much of the scholarship of modern history I’m reading in my “Introduction to the Professional Study of History” course is angry, ultra-liberal work that arrogates to itself a point of view of objective correctness, using theory as a blunt ...
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• Subsistence Politics

  
  Stump Lane — Authority: 420
  [Prologue edited for clarity.] Years ago, before my ideas went out of fashion, I went around calling myself a Liberal. I also frequently submitted posts for the Carnival of the Liberals, and still do occasionally. Sometimes I manage to sneak one in there. The Carnival was the driving force behind my ...
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• Guest Post: The Economic Sociology of Triathlons

  
  Economic Sociology — Authority: 460
  This guest post is the first in what I hope will be a series of contributions by some of my former students from Brown University: people who took my course in Economic Sociology, and who have stayed in touch over the years. It’s always wonderful to hear from former students, and especially so when they find that ...
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• Contingency and Stability in History

  
  requiem for certainty — Authority: 91
  According to one usual story, necessity connotes stability whilst contingency connotes instability. Foucault is anything but the usual story. One thing that makes his work so provocative and appealing is his attribution of stability and contingency to the selfsame objects of his historical inquiries—or to put it ...
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• "Tribe Party" in Toronto. No more underground art in my mind.

  
  Gustavo Thomas Theatre — Authority: 103
  Last night I attended "Tribe", one of the biggest festivals in the world devoted to "fetish" ( "Fetish Party" is its name in English) where the world of alternative options for sexuality becomes a sideboard for theatrical costumes and attitudes on a seemingly perfectly normal night . Around 4000 people rush, the ...
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• Foucault’s birthday (belated)

  
  Foucault blog — Authority: 114
  We forgot to note Foucault’s birthday last week. He would have been 83 years old.Update. More importantly, we missed Asterix and Obelix’s birthday! They were 50 years old, sort of.
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• Twitter as [Teacher] Liberation Technology

  
  SpeEdChange — Authority: 449
  based on my recent presentation at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2009 Midwest Conference at Kent State University... If, as Foucault says, power is “neither given, nor exchanged, nor recovered, but rather exercised, and that it only exists in action" (Kelly 1994), then the ...
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• Fat Taxes and Foucault

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 128
  by bmckernan In recent months, proposals for “fat taxes” have gained growing popularity amongst certain academic and political circles. Proponents for such measures suggest that such policies would help lower America’s obesity rate and/or help fund a public healthcare plan. A series of articles from Slate.com ...
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• For the Love of Žižek: a Fan’s Confession

  
  (Mis)readings — Authority: 110
  We believe that feelings are immutable, but every sentiment, particularly the noblest and most disinterested, has a history. Michel Foucault , ‘Nietzsche, Genealogy, History’ I was not always a keen reader of theory, that anamorphic genre that blends literary, sociological, philosophical, political, and other ...
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• Penguins cause moral panic at the post office!

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 575
  Australia Post, which has been one of the many distributors for the excellent series of orange Popular Penguins, last week decreed that three titles could not be sold through their outlets – Anais Nin’s Delta of Venus , Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita , and Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume One . ...
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• Didier Eribon new book Retour à Reims

  
  Foucault blog — Authority: 114
  One of Foucault’s biographers and friends, Didier Eribon, has a new book out, an autobiography. Sounds interesting as described here. Since I spent 3 weeks near Reims this summer it’s fascinating to see that that is where Eribon’s family apparently comes from (it’s in the champagne region of France):Blessé, ...
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• The Dis/Order of Things

  
  Loomnie — Authority: 129
  If you are in London : The Dis/Order of Things: Predisciplinarity After Foucault An Interdisciplinary Workshop. The afternoon will end with a keynote by Professor Simon During (Johns Hopkins): ‘Lost Objects: Magic and Mystery in the English Enlightenment’ Saturday 24 October 2009 Birkbeck College, University ...
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