Spinoza and Texts 7-8 April 2010 University of Dundee, Scotland Speakers include: Dimitris Vardoulakis, Peg Rawes, Nick Nesbitt, Nicholas Halmi This conference focuses on uses of Spinoza in the arts and humanities, considering Spinoza's influence by and on "texts" construed very broadly. Papers will look at Spinoza in relation to literary, historical, visual, cultural, and critical texts, and evaluate Spinoza's contribution to multiple fields in the history of ideas and contemporary humanities. POSTGRADUATE CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts are invited from Masters and PhD students for papers of 45-minutes reading time on any topic relevant to the conference theme. This is an interdisciplinary...

The Hunt for Red October. DB here: Seminar, orig. German (1889): A class that meets for systematic study under the direction of a teacher. From Latin seminarium, “seed-plot.” I retired from full-time teaching in July of 2005. Since then, while writing and traveling (both chronicled on this...

Begin #content Begin #main Kino Fist will be making a slight, last-minute return to tie in with the Historical Materialism conference. Due to [workload excess/insanity/etc.] may unfortunately lack a zine, but it will be in the salubrious environs of the Hotshoe Gallery in Farringdon. It will...

Kino Fist will be making a slight, last-minute return to tie in with the Historical Materialism conference. Due to mine and Nina's current workload may unfortunately lack a zine, but it will be in the salubrious environs of the Hotshoe Gallery in Farringdon. It will feature two films of a rag...

From all of us at Filmmaker, Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers. Hope everyone has a great holiday. The blog will be back over the weekend and next week with the Gotham Awards, the Sundance Selection, the beginnings of our Decade End surveys, and more...

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There is finally a piece in the THE about the parlous state of Philosophy in post-92 universities. My own institution is there (no longer accepting new students for its single honours course in 2010), but the reason given (low-recruitment) simply isn't true: some places are struggling certainly, but not everywhere. Last year, for example, we had 27 single honours students and even more combined. For a department with the equivalent of three fulltime members of staff, this is an astonishingly high number of students. Nor do we make a financial loss, quite the opposite in fact. Our retention is very high indeed. I think we have to acknowledge that there is something else at stake here in the...

Greetings, patient readers. The saga of the Siren's Internet access would not make a good movie, unless you consider it compelling cinema to watch a woman screaming at a voice-recognition system because it doesn't recognize her voice. Today the Siren called and explained to a puzzled but pleasant...