My Name Is My Name w/ APS

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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). 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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). 

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. 

Michael O’Rourke is capitalizing on the presence of three Laruelle translators being in Europe around the same time and has organized a series of seminars. The information for that is below, but we do need your help to make this happen. Our budget, which only includes the cost of travel for the speakers to Dublin as we will be sleeping on Michael’s couches with his cats, comes to about $700 for the three of us. I will be recording these seminars and broadcasting them via this podcast and can make excerpts of the drafts available as well here and at AUFS. As a side note, for those who have enjoyed the three episodes of the podcast, this will also support the podcast's efforts as it will facilitate interviews with some other folks in Dublin and Berlin (where I will be coming from). So, if you can, please consider supporting this seminar series and the podcast by donating via PayPal.

Laruelle: In Translation

Organizer: Michael O’Rourke (Independent Colleges, Dublin)

Dublin, July 2014 (venue tbc)

In July 2014 a series of events will be on held on the work of François Laruelle in the company of three of the foremost experts on his work:  Alex Dubilet, Joshua Ramey and Anthony Paul Smith. The events will showcase three forthcoming translations of Laruelle’s work and the translators of these texts will guide us carefully through them.  As well as providing an advance preview of these books  the sessions will also be a unique opportunity to study Laruelle in detail with his translators and explicators. Advance copies of excerpts of the texts will be made available to participants and all three events will be recorded and audio made available on-line afterwards through the My Name Is My Name podcast. Other confirmed participants include the Laruelle scholar and artist Alice Rekab.

Saturday July 5: Joshua Ramey (Grinnell College, USA) will guide a seminar on his forthcoming translation of Mystique Non-Philosophique à L’usage des Contemporains/ Non-Philosophical Mysticism for Today

Sunday July 6: Anthony Paul Smith (La Salle University, USA) will lead a seminar on his forthcoming translation of Introduction au Non-Marxisme/ Introduction to Non-Marxism