What is the Meaning of Chicago?

I recently visited Chicago with my two boys (Asher 13 and Isak 12). We were only passing through on our way up to Madison, Wisconsin. With less than 24hrs to spend our options in Chicago were limited. Thus we were reduced to tourist, which in this case we didn’t mind. Whilst visiting the downtown area, [...]

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The Veil, Psychoanalysis, and Politics–A Conference at York University (Toronto)

This is a call for papers and roundtable discussants for a short conference entitled “The Veil, Psychoanalysis, and Politics” to be held at York University in Toronto, Canada, on October 2nd, 2009. The purpose of this conference will be to offer a forum in which multiple speakers will be given the opportunity to radically redefine [...]

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Toni Negri’s Book on Lenin

The Insurrections series at Columbia University Press is happy to report a forthcoming book by Toni Negri. Thirty-three Lessons on Lenin Antonio Negri Lenin, his inventive politics and his thought, are to be now simply thrown away? Many stereotypes seem to answer in the affirmative. This reading, conducted in the tumultuous years of the 70s, [...]

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A Junk-Cut on Political Theology

By its inherent nature political theology operates through a dialectical process.  By dialectical, we simply mean that the discipline of political theology cannot be reduced down to a prior, singularity or monism, and because of this it must live by an inherent tension determined by the very meaning of the terms themselves.  Like it or [...]

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Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics and the Dialectic (My New Book)

Hegel is at the origin of everything great in philosophy for the last century. –Maurice Merleau-Ponty My new book, which I coedited with Clayton Crockett and Slavoj Zizek has been submitted to Columbia University Press. The basic thesis of this volume is that Hegel is finally the thinker of the 21st century. There are many [...]

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Theology After Lacan

I am in the beginning stages of putting together a book entitled, Theology after Lacan which will include articles from the best philosophers and theologians on Lacan.  This volume will go into my Duke series, New Slant or the Insurrections series at Columbia.

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Three New Insurrections–A Book Series By Columbia University Press

The editors of the new book series, Insurrections: Cultural Studies in Religion, Politics and Culture (published by Columbia University Press) are happy to announce three new titles. BOOK I: Catherine Malabou, Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction, translated by Carolyn Shread, with a Foreword by Clayton Crockett. Product Description: Catherine Malabou is [...]

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