Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 10 on “Painting, Moving Images and Philosophy” is now online at cjpmi.ifilnova.pt. I was guest editor, working with Susana Viegas, for this issue. Thanks to a terrific line up of papers and Susana’s outstanding knowledge of the field, the issue tackles the relation…
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Review of Kiff Bamford’s Jean-François Lyotard
Here is my review in French Studies of the very enjoyable and inventive new biography of Lyotard by Kiff Bamford, published by Reaktion Books in their Critical Lives series. I’ve added a link to the longer version on my Reviews page as well. Bamford, Lyotard
Continue ReadingDissensus, Judgment, Universality: Rethinking Lyotard’s Politics
November 30 – December 1 International Workshop Dissensus, Judgment, Universality Rethinking Lyotard’s Politics at the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders,” Goethe University, Frankfurt. Program for the Workshop. I’ll be speaking about the potential for resistance to normativity and the deeper understanding of the genesis of normative orders…
Continue ReadingCINEMA 10 CFP: PAINTING, MOVING IMAGES AND PHILOSOPHY
CINEMA 10 CFP: PAINTING, MOVING IMAGES AND PHILOSOPHY edited by Susana Viegas (IFILNOVA/Deakin University)) James Williams (Deakin University) Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image invites submissions for its issue on “Painting, Moving Images and Philosophy”.
Continue ReadingAcinemas: Lyotard’s Philosophy of Film
Acinemas: Lyotard’s Philosophy of Film Edited by Graham Jones, Ashley Woodward This collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-François Lyotard’s major essays on film: ‘Acinema’, ‘The Unconscious as Mise-en-scène’, ‘Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema’ and ‘The Idea of a Sovereign Film’. Then, eight critical essays by…
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