Entries from January 2008

January 31, 2008

CCR 711 Week #3

DISCLAIMER TO ANYONE PASSING THROUGH: These are random thoughts and poorly written, somewhat serious, musings.  Please do not look for brilliance, or something that can be easily appropriated for a seminar paper.
Said, Edward.
Culture and Imperialism
Chapter One—“Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories.”
Keywords: history, [hegemonic] machine, field of representation, subjugation, manufactured will to dominate

January 22, 2008

CCR 711 Week #2

“The Underground Current of the Materialism of the Encounter.”From: Althusser, Louis.  Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writing, 1978-87.Eds. Francois Matheron and Oliver Corpet.  Trans. GM Goshgarian.  London/New York: Verso, 2006. 
Keywords: Althusser, Epicurus, Hobbes, Spinoza, materialism, encounter, the swerve, Marx, Engles, aleatory, Leviathan, Machiavelli, fortune (chance), virtue, the void, re-envisioning.