May 2009
17 posts
CGCS Research / Working Papers
Reports and Books related to the work of CGCS An Introduction to News Media Law and Policy in Jordan (April 2009) - English version An Introduction to News Media Law and Policy in Jordan (April 2009) - Arabic version Public Opinion Research in a Conflict Zone: Grassroots Diplomacy in Darfur (Fall 2008) Researching Attitudes towards Peace and Conflict and Darfur:An analysis of a research...
May 28th
Khatami and Mir Hossein Today
Iran Cuts Access To Facebook As Election Looms TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has blocked access to Facebook, prompting government critics on Sunday to condemn the move as an attempt to muzzle the opposition ahead of next month’s presidential election. Blogs and Web sites such as Facebook have … …www.huffingtonpost.com khatami Iran reformists hope for high election turnout ...
May 25th
اکسودوس ایران
دوستان عزیز 4 میلیون نفر از ایران رفته اند. این اکسدوس ایران بوده . در حمله اعراب نسبت به جمعیت این قدر آدم به هند نرفت . اما سوال من از شما این است که در میان این 4 میلیون فقط 40 نفر می توانید پیدا کنید که یک صدا داشته باشند؟ وقتی شما فاقد چنین چیزی هستید ، وقتی شما هیچ محورنظری ، عملی ، اجتماعی و فرهنگی واحد ندارید ، دیگر به ما چکار دارید؟ ما در بستر خودمان حرکت می کنیم و با تشخیص خودمان...
May 21st
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May 20th
uncommon bestiary
Uncommon Bestiary Editorial content | view pdf ByLuciana Parisi Matteo Pasquinelli’s book, Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons, asks us to get real about the dark, libidinal desires and living labour that underlie the ‘multitude’ and the commons. Review by Luciana Parisi After the political delirium of postmodern times, this new century has seen a return to...
May 20th
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Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World - Report now...
The Committee’s final report, published at 00.01 on 12 May, is available below as a PDF file. (You need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free from here) or similar application to view PDF files) There is also an accompanying Podcast (MP3 format), and a transcription of this (Word .DOC format) Hard copies of the report can be obtained by completing the request at...
May 15th
Bochegova on Bakhtin
Natalya Nikolaevna Bochegova gave a talk titled “Bakhtin’s Philosophy of the Humanities” as part of the Main Hall Forum lecture series Monday, April 27. Bochegova is dean of the faculty of philology at Kurgan State University in Russia. Her lecture discussed Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin and his contributions to 20th-century literary theory in Russia...
May 11th
بازگشت زندگی
     اين تصوير امروز بر روي درگاه تارنماي معتبر نشنال جيوگرافيك قرار گرفته و در شمار 5 تصوير برتر هفته جاي دارد. تصويري كه روزگار 17 ارديبهشت (7 مي) 1388 سرزمين سوخته‌اي را در استراليا نشان مي‌دهد كه كمتر از سه ماه پيش (9 فوريه 2009) اينچنين در آتش سوخت و با خود جان 173 انسان را هم گرفت و بيش از دو هزار خانه را سوزاند … اما امروز دوباره دارد مي‌رويد و تو مي‌تواني شوق رويش دوباره و برق آن...
May 9th
U B U W E B - Film & Video: Guy Debord - Society...
Guy Debord (1931-1994) Back to Guy Debord on UbuWeb Film Society of the Spectacle, Part 2, 1973 For a complete translation of the soundtrack of Spectacle by Ken Knabb click here Subtitles by Keith Sanborn via ubu.com Posted via web from eY | Comment »
May 9th
Schizoanalysis in Practice « Larval Subjects .
I came across this article by Eugene Holland when looking for examples of schizoanalysis in practice for the reading group I participate in. As always, Holland’s writing is exceptionally clear and illuminating. The article is of special interest for the productive and congenial relations it draws between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Deleuze and Guattari’s work with Marx and historical modes of...
May 7th
Grupp Quantum Deleuze
Deleuzian Platonism is Quantum Reality Jeffrey Grupp   Introduction: Deleuzian Platonic Dualism My goal in this article is to show how Giles Deleuze’s philosophy of platonism (or, as some philosophers may put it, inverse platonism) in Difference and Repetition describes reality in a way that is strikingly similar to the way reality...
May 7th
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the...
This is a world where massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace every other tool that might be brought to bear. Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers...
May 7th
Variations « Tammy Lu
Taylor Adkins’s translation of François Laruelle’s Dictionary of Non-Philosophy [PDF]. By Nick Srnicek, Ben Woodard, and Taylor Adkins of Speculative Heresy. via tammylu.wordpress.com Posted via web from eY | Comment »
May 7th
بار سنگین باختین بر دوش رمان
بار سنگین باختین بر دوش رمان اندیشه  - گزارشی از نشست نقد و بررسی کتاب «تخیل مکالمه‌ای» در شهر کتاب مرکزی رضا محبی: در ادامه سلسله‌نشست‌های شهر کتاب، در فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی کتاب «تخیل مکالمه‌ای» با عنوان فرعی جستارهایی درباره رمان نوشته میخائیل باختین با ترجمه رؤیا پورآذر نقد و بررسی شد. در این جلسه رؤیا پورآذر مترجم اثر، فرزان سجودی و امیرعلی نجومیان سخنرانی کردند. باختین یکی از...
May 7th
Alain Badiou - The Meaning of Sarkozy
Verso Books | Amazon | Download When Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of the France in 2007, the world was shocked. Could this out and out right-winger really be the new leader of the Republic? Alain Badiou, in this sharp and focused intervention, claims that, in and of itself, the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President is not an event, nor is it the cause for wringing of...
May 7th
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The Earth is a Satellite of the Moon
The Earth is a Satellite of the Moon Leonel Rugama Apollo 2 cost more than Apollo 1 Apollo 1 cost plenty Apollo 3 cost more than Apollo 2 Apollo 2 cost more than Apollo 1 Apollo 1 cost plenty Apollo 4 cost more than Apollo 3 Apollo 3 cost more than Apollo 2 Apollo 2 cost more than Apollo 1 Apollo 1 cost plenty Apollo 8 cost a fortune, but no one minded because the astronauts were Protestant they...
May 6th
Tativille: What is Cinema? More than Cinema: The...
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May 6th