Rolling Philosophy

is that the one he's since disowned?

― ryan, Friday, April 4, 2014 3:39 PM

not sure "disowned" is the right word, but i remember him saying something (re: nihil unbound) like "i regard the book as a botched job" (that's close to a direct quote). i don't think i've ever heard him talk about his thesis too much?

also, yes, academic ebooks are funny insofar as many of them do not exist (legally). good luck finding the brassier book on amazon.

so if you're not already on it send me yr email address and i'll do the rest.

ah thank you! but i think i'll avoid it b/c for some reason i feel paranoid about signing up for something like that where i wouldn't be paranoid about just checking it out. i could see why it's more locked down now.

btw markers another answer to your 'how do things get pirated' question is that in our circles the authors are generally as against the pricing of academic books as everybody else is, so they'll often happily distribute their final pdf copies from the publisher if they're confident it can't be traced back to them.

oh yeah. i think i knew they'd do that for articles, but didn't know they'd do the same for books.

i'm serious about reading either of yr stuff btw. let me know whenever stuff's available through whatever channel.

ah thank you! but i think i'll avoid it b/c for some reason i feel paranoid about signing up for something like that where i wouldn't be paranoid about just checking it out. i could see why it's more locked down now.

fair enough. i think in addition to that the mp3-downloading 'problem' of just having too much available to you is amplified. if i had the option of reading all the books i own before plunging into the thousands and thousands of pdfs they have then i'd take it, but as someone who has to produce work its an absolutely invaluable resource.

i think the only publisher who actually tried to take action against @@@@@rg was verso, good radicals that they are. for quite a while zizek was conspicuously absent from their archives.

On that note, though, verso is selling all their books online for half off this week...

uh holy shit

not their lefebvre : (

huh? http://www.versobooks.com/books/1062-introduction-to-modernity

http://www.versobooks.com/books/264-critique-of-everyday-life-volume-one
http://www.versobooks.com/books/274-critique-of-everyday-life-volume-two

the newest one on his author page isn't out yet

huh, that is a change from the day or two ago when i was looking at 'critique'

well maybe you were on this page: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1623-the-critique-of-everyday-life

oh, that's why—i want volume 3

note the "may 2014"

this is insane though. whatever they were hoping to accomplish with this, it's gonna probably work and get me to sign up for their store, which i wouldn't have done otherwise.

if i had more money now i'd drop a lot on this

xp or, when it is issued, a ~900 page CRITIQUE OF ALL YALL MOTHERFUCKERS W/ BLACK AND WHITE TEXT-ONLY COVER ART

for a hardcover! http://www.versobooks.com/books/437-fanaticism

wanna order...three books from verso, what are your favourites everyone? give me a wide spread.

minima moralia

signs mistaken for wonders

and, i dunno, one i'd like to read, say rancière, hatred of democracy

i didnt think id want anything but after looking at the website Élisabeth Roudinesco's book on Lacan looks good!

zizek - sublime object of ideology
zizek - living in the end times
various artists - aesthetics and politics
hal foster - the art-architecture complex
anabel hernández - narcoland

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality remains a favorite. and anything by Ernesto Laclau in general. wish i knew more, but Verso tends to cover things outside my competence. which is why i should read more of their stuff.

i can't find any info on "signs mistaken for wonders"--what is it? good title.

nevermind! it's moretti.

shit it's not in stock.

Jameson's Late Marxism is really good, though i read it probably a decade ago.

minima moralia out of stock :(

you should order it used anyway, to get the bad-motherfucker black cover instead of the newer grosser one

o wait i see the new sexxxier series has a kewl black hardcover now

i'll wait for a library copy.

went hardcore suck-up and bought a bunch of stuff by ppl in my department.

know Brouwer's math pretty well, had no idea about that element of his philosophy! saw some very out-there heyting quotes the other day that inspired me to want to learn more. sort of painfully naive claims about mathematics being that which is 'immediately evident' and thus not needing a philosophy. maybe brouwer's intuitionism really went that deep too.

for me it's just striking how deep into some kinda pro-christian (anti-world) schopenhauerian dutch nationalist melange it is, apparently w/o much buildup. that level of philosophical uh embeddedness is not exactly surprising in mathematicians/scientists of that age or earlier, i just wonder at its specific sources (since it is evidently more or less a repetition of dogmas common to the schopenhauerian tradition).

schopenhauer has a weird philosophy of mathematics that stems somehow from his ways of claiming to correct/simplify kant (esp. in the direction of affirming unusual doctrines about perception which i think from an orthodox kantian perspective just sound uncritical?).

Brouwer's sources include Fichte and Schelling and Goethe ; he's drawing on German idealism

well yuh, i meant something a bit more recent

can't post it now but there are p close textual similarities b/w Fichte et al & Brouwer's text, kinda striking

talk was excellent - thought there were some pretty clear connections between his mathematical work and his solipsism, or at least his idealism

this discussion sent me on a bit of reading. lots of texts seem to suggest schopenhauer was directly key, and more directly his teacher Gerrit Mannoury. want to read more about him and the signific circle now, but not sure how much if anything is available in english.

also didn't read that it was originally brouwer that coined the term (apparently) 'metamathematics'! i had always thought that it originated more as a _concession_ to those who claimed certain stuff wasn't 'real math' than as a point of pride and distinction...

re. Brouwer's influences, this is a secondary lit article I'd recommend, in this volume

started reading more on mannoury and wow that guy is interesting. anyone know more about him and the significs group? dude was talking about speech acts 30 years before austin. the connection with Adriaan de Groot and cognitive psych is also really interesting.

cool search feature

http://www.versobooks.com/search?q=zizek&scope=Authors

was browsing amazon and came across a new zizek, "absolute recoil: towards a new foundation of dialectical materialism." On verso in October.

www.buenosairesherald.com/article/156933/ernesto-laclau-passes-away-at-78

i bought hegemony & socialist strategy when i was in college, but i don't know how much of it i read, if any

zizek's also putting out:

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1688-comradely-greetings
http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745663746
http://www.amazon.com/Event-Slavoj-Zizek/dp/1612194117/

the last of those is already available here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Event-Philosophy-Transit-Slavoj-Zizek/dp/1846146267/

I've heard the 'Event' book is quite good, a rare recent example of Zizek not on autopilot.

that's actually a little surprising. i did a reading group on violence in 2009 and i don't remember how much of it was original stuff but i doubt it was all of it

ended up buying nothing from the verso sale

i've been meaning to reread that

which? violence?

i didn't buy it from the sale, but the website alerted me to the existence of s. critchley's (and co-author's) "The Hamlet Doctrine," so i impulsively got it on my kindle. it was pretty fucking stupid though. a nice tour through some famous takes on an intrinsically fascinating topic (benjamin, freud, lacan, nietzsche, joyce) but it's really indulgent and doesn't come to anything new. a book that focused on Hamlet as a topic for philosophy would be pretty cool though, and this book approaches that but doesn't really come close to what I wanted.

which is a shame, because i thought "faith of the faithless" was pretty good and worth engaging with. getting tired of so many stupid cash-ins from these guys (uh, philosophers). i swear half of the new books i read come across as a collection of semi-edited notes.