The Notes Taken

Unlike the last few Sundays, I will say that, here at The Notes Taken , not much has been happening. Our contributors are graduate students ...

I've been trying to work up an abstract on Walter Benjamin for the CPA meeting in June for a panel on German philosophy with two friends...

Honestly, you've got to watch this graphic on the geography of a recession more than once to really take it in.

Here it is ( update: don't forget my posts-- here and here -- on Schelling's work): Ph.D. Philosophy; Thesis Defense Devin Zane Sh...

I can't say I saw too much of Memphis (mainly the neighborhood at Cooper/Young, Beale Street and the National Civil Rights Museum), but ...

November has seen a lot of literary-philosophical in-review action here at The Notes Taken (with pieces, this week, on colonialism and more...

The recent political struggle in Nepal has taken a course that, ideologically, couldn't seem less possible in the 21st century: there th...

Foucault has asserted that a great confinement took place in Europe, with the proliferation of the asylum, during the early modern period. W...

Slavoj Zizek's new book (Verso, 2009) examines the current world financial crisis and attempts to delineate a coherent Leftist response...

Traveling imposes its own kind of reading schedule, being that there are numerous external limitations to what one can plan on reading: the ...