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    Being and Time, part 1: Why Heidegger matters

    The most important and influential continental philosopher of the last century was also a Nazi. How did he get there? What can we learn from him? by Simon Critchley guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 June 2009 09.00 BST Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was the most important and...
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    The political use and abuse of metaphor

    Author James Geary talks to spiked about the explosion of metaphors around the economic crisis and the Arab uprisings and what they reveal about the attitudes of commentators and politicians. by Patrick Hayes ‘Will Egypt’s revolution spark a Domino Effect?’; ‘Could a political-unrest...
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    Forensic Architecture: Only the Criminal Can Solve the Crime

    http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/pdf/highlight_weizman164.pdf
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    Death-Drive America: On Scott Wilson’s Vision of the Cultural Politics of American Nihilism in the Age of Supercapitalism

    Mark Featherstone I Against the Bipolar Culture of Americanism Despite the explosion of academic study of American political theology in recent times, I hold the view that the best single work on the fundamentalist turn in American politics under Bush II is Arthur Kroker’s (2006) short book...
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    Who Owns Kafka?

    London Review of Books Vol. 33 No. 5 · 3 March 2011 8593 words Judith Butler An ongoing trial in Tel Aviv is set to determine who will have stewardship of several boxes of Kafka’s original writings, including primary drafts of his published works, currently stored in Zurich and Tel Aviv. As...
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    The Marriage of Sexism and Islamophobia; Re-Making the News on Egypt

    14 Feb 21 2011 by Maya Mikdashi I find myself intermittently infuriated and nauseated by the news coverage of the sexual assault on a female CBS reporter in Tahrir Square during the celebrations the day that Husni Mubarak resigned. This coverage has ranged from the disappointing silence of...
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    Evil Media Studies

    Towards an Evil Media Studies Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey Evil media studies is not a discipline, nor is it the description of a category of particularly unpleasant media objects. It is a manner of working with a set of informal practices and bodies of knowledge, characterised as stratagems...
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    Τα καλύτερα μουσικά γιουτιουμπάκια

    Κοτσάρω κι ένα παράθεμα που πολύ μου αρέσει για έξτρα εφέ: Reza Negarestani on love (quote from Cyclonopedia): Love empties all possibilities of recovery. Falling in love is a one way ticket to the end of health. Barthes suggests that love is cyclic. /…/ This cycle strikes me not as love but...
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    Post-punk Oddities

    Εξαιρετική συλλογή από μεταπάνκ κομμάτια http://www.ppodd.info/
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    The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism

    Όποια/ος ενδιαφέρεται να διαβάσει για την οντολογία του υποθετικού ρεαλισμού, ας δει αυτό: http://www.re-press.org/book-files/OA_Version_Speculative_Turn_9780980668346.pdf
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