The Notes Taken

Tomorrow I'll be giving a talk at Memorial University in St. John’s, titled "The State and the Police: Considerations on Jacques R...

In Society against the State , Pierre Clastres writes, from its beginnings our culture has conceived of political power in terms of hierar...

These days, the time I used to spend blogging has been expended on being managing book review editor for Symposium and the CSCP. That does ...

Symposium has published my review of Martin Breaugh, Christopher Holman, Rachel Magnusson, Paul Mazzocchi, and Devin Penner (eds.), Thinki...

Last time we were on the phone, I discovered that even my own mother didn't know the book would be available soon, so I must have ...

Something I've been working on. Comments welcome before it goes to press in two weeks. I consider equality, in its political and aest...

I know that very little has appeared on the blog during 2014. That's largely due--at least in my case--to the fact that I've been wr...

I’m currently working on the third chapter of my book on Rancière and philosophy, part of which was recently delivered at the Aesthetic Expe...

UPDATED 10 February, schedule changes in italics, including the time of my presentation I will be participating in the Aesthetic Experienc...

If you want to know where I've been during 2013, I've been working on a book on Jacques Rancière and philosophy. In Part I, I focus...

I noticed that I hadn't yet posted a link to the "The Nothingness of Equality: The 'Sartrean Existentialism' of Jacques R...

I've argued previously that class is an important category in the work of Jacques Rancière. Rarely, however, do we find such a direct ...

As a reader of this blog, you've probably heard that I am working on a book about Jacques Rancière. In the first two chapters, I seek t...

As part of my research on Jacques Rancière, I have been reading up on liberal discussions of human rights. What I've read confirms Todd ...

I am currently putting the finishing touches on an essay entitled "Cartesian Egalitarianism: From Poullain de la Barre to Rancière,...

Many different factors play into how a person chooses his or her dissertation topic. When I began my PhD studies, I figured that I would be ...

I've been putting the finishing touches on an essay that ought to see the light of day sometime in 2012 (it has already been accepted fo...

My review of Jacques Rancière's The Politics of Literature , which I wrote during our sojourn in Paris, is now available at the Marx and...

I'll be heading to the Society for Social and Political Philosophy 's roundtable on Marx's Capital , Volume 1, tomorrow. The sch...

Wrong Arithmetic has posted a rough translation of Jacques Rancière's recent talk "Racisme, une passion d'en haut" ( deli...