Fractured Ontologies in Music explores musical forms in which fracture becomes a productive way of organizing musical experience. From the spectral dispersions of the French style brisé to the phantomic operations of fantasia and the mutable structures of variation in the Romantic piano repertoire, music emerges as a field where presence is continually refracted through …
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9th Derrida Today Conference at École Normale Supérieure, July 2026
Derrida’s spectrology or granting ghosts the right to teach us to live The aim of this paper is to reconsider the possibility of a phenomenology of the spectral – that is, the ghostly returns from past revolutionary events operating within disjointed sequences of time to haunt the present. How should one interpret the Marxist messianic …
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NEGRI OLTRE NEGRI (II)
Forma stato, potere costituente e impero nel regime di guerra globale Convegno internazionale/International conference, University of Salerno, Italy, June 18-19, 2026 Toni Negri is one of the most radical and original thinkers in contemporary political thought. A philosopher and theorist of social transformation, Negri placed, at the centre of his thought, the constitutive relation between …
On Public Shame
This is something I started 20+ years ago. Varying definitions of shame exist in the fields of anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and moral philosophy. Some of the questions arising around shame are whether shame is different from guilt, if it is a positive or a negative force, whether it is a part of private or …
The Destruction of Gernika (Guernica)
Monday 26 April 1937 From 4.40 to 7.45 in the late afternoon of Monday 26 April 1937, the small Basque town of Guernica was destroyed by sustained bombing attacks by Hitler’s Condor Legion and Mussolini’s Aviazzione Legionaria. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco’s rebel Nationalist faction under the code name Operation …
Communism after Deleuze
This new reading of Gilles Deleuze by Alex Taek-Gwang Lee forges a link between his early and later works by decoding his hidden agenda for communism. Encoded in the idea of ‘the Third World’, Deleuze used his concept of communism as a bulwark against fascist politics and the liberal political economy. Inspired by May 68 …
In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou
“As we know, love needs re-inventing.” Arthur Rimbaud An excerpt: PHILOSOPHERS AND LOVE You borrow from Rimbaud the phrase “Love needs re-inventing” and draw on numerous poets and writers as you develop your own conception of love. But first we should perhaps ask questions of other philosophers. You have been impressed by the fact that …
New Truths in Alain Badiou’s Thought
In this paper, I examine Badiou’s idea of the “infinite value of truth” as an important imperative of our post-truth era. The main concepts essential for understanding the creation of truth include the mathematical system of set theory, events, and the relationships between truth and the subject, truth and politics, and truth and art. The …
Cândido Portinari’s art: Toward the real world
Brazilian artist Cândido Portinari, the child of Italian immigrants, grew up on a coffee plantation in the state of São Paulo where his father worked. At the age of fifteen he started his studies at the academy of arts in Rio de Janiero. In his work he wanted to depict the turmoil of the time …
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The Nomadic Proletariat
In this interview, Alain Badiou focuses on the concept of the migrant, or the sans-papiers. Badiou discusses the importance of this concept in his previous work and for contemporary politics. Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331960237_The_Nomadic_Proletariat_in_advance_An_Interview_with_Alain_Badiou