The Notes Taken

Hot on the heels of their animated David Harvey talk on capitalism, the RSA has animated a recent talk by Slavoj Zizek. They do quite a job ...

When I came to South Korea I brought about a dozen books. I have already read some of them twice. But I finally just dove into Partha Chatte...

Getting good information about Tibet can be difficult: one the one hand, there's Chinese media censorship to get around, but on the othe...

I've been reading (and for some parts, rereading) the first volume of Capital , which has already been the source of not a little humor ...

I’ve only just arrived in Korea about five weeks ago. I don’t want to live obliviously as so many Americans seem to do here. With this in mi...

It is about time that the great cultural critic Slavoj Zizek make an analysis of his own rising popularity. It seems his role as a popular t...

Today was the day that the typesetting and proofing and indexing of the Schelling book (if you're not already in the know, it's here...

Let's just get it out the way now: Piero Gleijeses's The Cuban Drumbeat ( Seagull , 2009) is one of best political pamphlets I'...

Having cornered the ideological market via naked repression and the subtler re-organization of what Gramsci calls "common sense" (...

We live in a world which defies models and reductionism. Borders only have meaning within certain contexts. But what about that which transc...