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September 08, 2006

nice this month

Martin Meyer and Andreas Breitenstein interview Peter handke on his views about Serbia and the breakup of the former Yugoslavia (see here for more).

Wonderful series of posts from Hero Harvest on motherhood, separation and desire...

Glorious review by Jameson of Zizek's Parallax View in London review of Books: solidarity and critique in one fascinating bundle.

Like me, Spurious has been having a voicy moment, and jazzing it up along the way. Long may this jazzing continue, you cool cat...

I cite, as provocative and smart as ever, has a string of posts on conspiracy, 9/11 and the jeopardy some academics are finding themselves in under the Bush administration. Ha the much hailed U.S.  constitution no meaning anymore? Essential reading.

European press on the slow and painful demise of Tony Blair (courtesy of the BBC).

A painfully honest and distressing post from In the Hall of Mirrors.

I've been guest-posting to Long Sunday - fun.   

 

August 20, 2006

Nice this month

Some nice things worth following up this month:

Click here for a great piece by Bourdieu, which I'd not seen before: 'The Peculiar History of Scientific Reason' (thanks to wood s lot).

Click here for a great piece by Chloe Taylor in the current issue of Postmodern Culture, 'Hard, Dry Eyes and Eyes That Weep: Vision and Ethics in Levinas and Derrida'

Click here for the latest gorgeous post from spurious now entering in full his late jazz phase (we wish him a happy and blissful journey, cat...