My Name Is My Name w/ APS

Today’s episode is a story told in the first person. The names do not refer to any person living or dead. The institution does not refer to any real institution. It expresses reality nonetheless. 

Today’s episode (65 minutes) is the audio of the “(N)one and the World” panel that took place at the Association of Continental Philosophy of Religion’s conference held at Liverpool Hope University this past July. This marks the second round of discussions between (in order of appearance) Daniel Colucciello Barber, Alex Dubilet, and myself around issues of secularism, theories of the human, and the world. Thank you to everyone who donated to help support this work. The third and final public discussion will take place on March 17th at The New School. More details forthcoming, but if you’re going to be around the NYC area do consider coming out. The song in today’s episode is “When the Storm Came” from Talk Less Say More’s wonderful album Violent. Download a copy from Records on Ribs and consider donating to help support them. 

After much delay, today’s episode (69 minutes) is a conversation with Robin James. The ideas from her most recent book, Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism are the focus of the conversation. The music in today’s episode is Les Étoiles’ “Old Photograph”. You can head to Records on Ribs to download a copy. 

Today’s episode (86 mins) consists of three papers given by Alex Dubilet, Daniel Colucciello Barber, and myself. There were given at the University of California-Berkeley back in May and formed the first workshop for our project investigated the prospect or not of thinking a “generic secular” in the midst of various critiques of secular and Christian universalism, the return of religion, and critical theory of race and gender. The dialogue form of the project is going to be repeated in the book we produce and I think it promises something interesting in the interstitial space we inhabit in theory. A genuine debate that shapes the final ideas. If you are able to support us please head over to the GoFundMe page that’s been set up. For our immediate cost needs it would be helpful to raise another $300 in the next week or so. The song in today’s episode is “When the Storm Came” from Talk Less Say More’s fantastic album Violent. Download a copy from Records on Ribs and consider donating to help keep their open access experiment alive.

Today’s episode (65 mins) features Sina Kramer talking about her work in philosophy, what its like finding a new disciplinary home, and her forthcoming work on the philosophy of cities. At the top of the show I mention a project I’m involved with is raising funds. If you are interested please head over to the GoFundMe page that’s been set up.Because I really like it, the music in today’s episode is again “Farewell to Floss” by The Blue Ducks. Head over to Records on Ribsto support them and other great artists. 

Today’s episode (77 mins) features Andrew Dilts talking about his recent book Punishment and Inclusion, how he ended up in political theory, and the relationship between activism and academy. I highly recommend Andrew’s book to anyone interested in understanding American democracy, both historically and where we are at now. At the top of the show I give a rundown on some issues with a recent review of Alexander R. Galloway’s Laruelle: Against the Digital. You can find that review at Review31. Feel free to skip ahead to the discussion with Andrew. The music in today’s episode is again “Farewell to Floss” by The Blue Ducks. Head over to Records on Ribs to support them and other great artists. 

Today’s episode (80 mins) is a conversation with Joshua Dubler, author of Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison and former Philadelphia resident now residing in upstate New York where he teaches at the University of Rochester. In the opening I play a clip from Jared Sexton speaking during a Q&A of a keynote lecture he gave. The video of the entire lecture is online and I highly recommend it. The music in today’s episode is “Farewell to Floss” by The Blue Ducks. Head over to Records on Ribs to support them and other great artists. 

Today’s episode (65 mins) is the recording of an AAR panel around the theme of “Doing Violence to Theology”. You will hear, in order of appearance, Sean Capener, Kate Tomas, Amaryah Jones-Armstrong, and Janice McRandal (both Amaryah and Janice also blog at Women in Theology).  The music on today’s episode is again Les Étoiles’ “Your Roots, Your Bones” from the album of the same name. Download the album and those by other great artists at Records on Ribs.

Today’s episode (78 mins) is a conversation with Michael O'Rourke. Michael is a postman and independent scholar who also teaches at Independent Colleges Dublin. His most recent book, Queer Insists (For José Esteban Muñoz), was recently published with Punctum and CriticalTheory.com in its list of best books in 2014. My thanks to Michael for bringing me to Dublin in July for the Laruelle in Translation series which also allowed me to sit down and have this conversation with him.  At the top of the show I give some thoughts on the recent attack in Paris and the wider context it comes out of.  The music in today’s episode is “Farewell to Floss” by The Blue Ducks. Head over to Records on Ribs to support them and other great artists. 

Today’s episode (83 mins) is the recording a lecture, “Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency"given by Joshua Ramey for the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU and a response to his lecture by Dimitris Vardoulakis.  The music on today’s episode is Les Étoiles’ "Your Roots, Your Bones” from the album of the same name. Download the album and those by other great artists at Records on Ribs.

Today’s episode (75 mins) is a conversation with George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. George is the author of a number of books, editor of even more including an important collection of interviews with African-American philosophers, and recently has continued in his role as interviewer over at the New York Time’s philosophy blog The Stone. We were very lucky to get to turn the tables on him to discuss his biography, his work on critical race theory, and his thoughts on what the recent police killings, lack of indictments, and #BlackLivesMatter protest movement means for our understanding of race. 

Alice Rekab, artist and theorist, is my guest on today’s episode (67 minutes). You can see some her work at her website and an early version of the film we briefly talk about at the Global Art & Ideas Nexus media page. There you can also watch video of Joshua Ramey, Alex Dubilet, and myself discussing recent Laruelle translations.  I won’t pretend that the opening remarks are not raw or that they are incredibly intellectual. Like many of you I am dismayed and enraged by the Ferguson grand jury decision. Divorcing that emotional register from theoretical work strikes me as doing a disservice to both one’s emotional life and their intellectual work. So, I figured let it show.  Music in today’s episode is J. Cole’s tribute to Mike Brown, “Be Free”. 

On today’s episode (78 mins) I sit down with ecologist and philosopher Liam Heneghan, Chair of DePaul University’s Department of Environmental Science and Studies, Co-Director of the Institute for Nature and Culture, and a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy there. You can find more of Liam’s popular writings at 3 Quarks Daily and Aeon Magazine.  Music in today’s episode comes to us from Blue Ducks’ album Six. Check them and other great artists out at Records on Ribs.

On today’s episode (74 mins) we are lucky to have the recording of Agata Bielik-Robson’s keynote address to the joint conference of the Mystical Theology Network and the Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion. Most of Agata’s work is out in Polish, but listeners will likely be very interested in her forthcoming Jewish Cryptotheologies in Late Modernity: Philosophical Marranos (which hopefully will eventually come out in paperback). You will hear Steven Shakespeare’s voice introduce Agata before her keynote, something I forgot to mention in the program. I also open the podcast with a short discussion of some materials that I think may help us think towards protesting Israel without falling into anti-semitism, though I do not claim to have that figured out. I think anti-semitism, like anti-black racism (which I see as a more virulent and primary antagonism in the construction of the West), is less dangerous if we classify it as something one intentionally does. It is instead something that we find ourselves structured by and so recognizing and naming it is far more difficult. Still, I hope my comments there are taken in the spirit in which they are offered, which is towards a conversation that would find some way to account for Isreali racism as well as anti-Jewish prejudice. While I think it is incumbent for us to remember the scores of Palestinians and the experience of genocide they are being and have been subjected to, it is also important we recognize the surge in anti-semitism in Europe and elsewhere. As Mao said, we must fight on two fronts (if only we were so lucky and it was only two).  I hope you may also take some time today and, if nothing else, remember the names of the murdered. 

On today’s episode (71 mins) I sit down with my old friend Adam Kotsko of Shimer College. Many of you will know Adam not only from his academic work and pop culture writing, but also from his writing at An und für sich. We talk about how he became an academic, why he does the work he does, and have a conversation about pedagogy and the future of higher education. 

Today is just a mini-episode of my Derrida Today Paper. Many of you on twitter said you would like to hear it and I’ve fallen behind in getting the other interviews edited (sound issues related to my old computer, may it RIP) since I’ve had to focus on finishing up the edits to my translation of Laruelle’s Introduction to Non-Marxism over the past few weeks.  In Laruelle translation related news, thank you to those who have donated for the Laruelle in Translation seminar series/funding my travel for some other interviews. We are about $70 short of our overall budget, so if you are able to throw $5 our way please consider donating via PayPal. Owing to a generous donation from JCRT and GAIN, I won’t be broadcasting the audio, but they will instead be hosting video of the seminars. I’ll still be using that time to interview folks for the show, though, and a link to the free video will be posted here for those who are interested.  The music featured in the show today comes from El Heath’s “A Cold Day In Spring” and Blue Ducks’ “Falling Asleep In Fhloston Paradise”. Both albums available—for free!—via Records on Ribs. 

Peter Steeves joins me on this week’s episode to talk about the moments of radical break in his life, what took him from science to philosophy and then to everything, and why stones are maybe a better ethical model than anything living. You can check out Peter’s books here and see a number of his performance talks on his YouTube page. We sadly didn’t have time to talk about his performances or his scientific work this time around, but hopefully we can have a part 2 sometime soon. 

Daniel Colucciello Barber joins me on this week’s episode to talk about how he got started in intellectual work, his new project on conversion, and his last two books : On Diasproa (Amazon: US, UK, Book Depository) and Deleuze and the Naming of God (Amazon: US, UK, Book Depository). Check out his Academia.edu page for links to some of his articles, but see especially his most recent article (The Immanent Refusal of Conversion) to see what his new work is up to. As I mentioned before, this is going up a little late so ignore the announcement about seeing me in Chicago since that was last week. I was able to interview some great folks, so regular updates will begin for the rest of this summer. There was some unforeseen problems with tech (my computer is old) but I hope you can be patient with that during the brief moments it is a problem.