February 29, 2008 in objecting, printing
Tags: air, anthropology, architecture, art, atmospheres, bubbles, climate, ecology, environment, foam, gas, philosophy, sloterdijk, sociology, spheres, translation
Vaticination: Peter Sloterdijk’s Foams (Sphären III: Schäume) is going to change the future of the social sciences. Well, it first needs to be translated into the current imperial languages (American English, Standard Mandarin and Modern Arabic). Available so far in French and Spanish.
February 27, 2008 in economizing, printing
Tags: biopolitics, books, economics, foucault, governmentality, neoliberal, neoliberalism, publications, sociology
By the way: the translation of Foucault’s lectures on neoliberalism (which were duly advertised here) is about to be published here. And, as mentioned here, the first chapter is freely available here. Great book — buy it now.
February 26, 2008 in invading, performing, speaking
Tags: bling, bodies, body, boltanski, bruni, carla, france, governmentality, institution, institutions, libido, nicolas, political, politics, president, prick, psychoanalysis, representation, rousseau, sarkozy, sociology, state
Sociologist Luc Boltanski (co-author of recently translated important books such as On Justification and The New Spirit of Capitalism) says of Nicolas Sarkozy:
“In the previous model of political representation, institutions play a semantic role. They do not primarily serve the purpose of coordination, administration or police. What they really do is that they state what [...]
February 18, 2008 in clearing
Tags: banking, brown, communism, credit, finance, labour, money, northern, revolution, rock, socialism, uk
In John Lanchester’s perfectly explanatory LRB piece about finance in general and Northern Rock in particular, there was an interesting parenthesis:
“It may turn out the government has no choice but to announce that it has (accidentally and inadvertently) nationalised the Rock.” (from John Lanchester, “Cityphilia”, London Review of Books, January 3 2008)
Well, it happened. Who [...]
February 13, 2008 in objecting, speaking
Tags: alarm, ant, anthem, empirical, experimental, furniture, graham, heidegger, latour, lse, metaphysics, philosophy, pragmata, pragmatism, things, translation, truth
There was an important proto-philosophical gathering at the LSE in early February — ANTHEM made the recording available here (check also here). What provoked the gathering was, apparently, the fact that some doctoral researchers in information systems got intrigued by what Graham Harman (speculative realist and guerrilla carpenter) had to say about Bruno Latour (metaphysical [...]
February 3, 2008 in economizing
Tags: credit, economics, fico, finance, mortgage, performativity, rating, reflexivity, sociology, sts, subprime
It’s very relieving that financiers found out that flaws in the prediction of credit default rates were homeowners’ fault. All came from the fact that people cheated, actually:
“In particular, it seems that mathematical models used to predict future default rates, based on past patterns of losses, have gone wrong because they did not adjust to [...]
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