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D. Carroll: “Remains” of Algeria: Justice, Hospitality, Politics

Posted in ethics, racism, worth reading on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

David Carroll’s essay ““Remains” of Algeria: Justice, Hospitality, Politics” examines the intersection between Derrida’s Algerian-Jewish upbringing and his conceptions of ethics, justice, and hospitality. Carroll posits that the uniqueness of Derrida’s experience as a French Jew in Algeria located him uncomfortably between two identities: Derrida was neither fully Arab Algerian nor French colonialist; he was [...]

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E. Popke: ‘Postructuralist Ethics: Subjectivity, Responsibility, Community’

Posted in Levinas, borders, ethics, justice, racism, space, spacing, trace on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

E. Jeffrey Popke advocates that poststructuralist ethics needs to be taken more seriously in human geography. He believes that poststructuralist theory “offers the potential to break down existing categories of power and knowledge, and thereby to foster alternative narratives, which have the [...]

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tangents on foucault, history, identity politics, etc…

Posted in End of History, Marx, Specters of Marx, ghosts, law, place, racism, signification, time, tagged , , , , , on October 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »

When reading Spectres of Marx and coming across the phrase “the time is out of joint” again and again, I recalled the explorations of Foucault in Society Must Be Defended.

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Spectres of Race at Hampshire

Posted in Specters of Marx, ghosts, racism, visor effect on September 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Posted on Cyree’s behalf (sorry for the mix-up):
Granted, I have only been at Hampshire College for 1 month, but in that time I have witnessed countless examples of racial bigotry and ignorance. Just as insidious as the instances themselves is the general unwillingness for the average Hampster to talk about these incidents, and race itself [...]

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