“The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” is a follow-up to the 2006 film “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema.” Similar to it’s predecessor, the film centers around cultural analysis of popular films such as “They Live” and “Titanic.”
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bell hooks Dancing to Beyonce’s ‘Drunk in Love’ is the Most Adorable Thing You’ll See All Day
Fresh off calling Beyonce a “terrorist,” bell hooks was recently spotted getting her groove on to Beyonce’s “Drunk in Love” by fellow activist Janet Mock.
Submit Your Papers! Towards a Queer Badiouian Feminism
You’ve got until August!
Student Council Candidate Runs as ‘Soviet Bear,’ Hilarity Ensues
Student council races, like real democracy, are often a sham popularity contest that teaches our not-yet disillusioned youth that we are impotent in the face of of Suzy Smith’s march to fascism.
Free Read! Badiou and Roudinesco on Jacques Lacan
In this excerpt from “Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue,” Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco discuss their first encounter with Jacques Lacan and his influenec on their work. Roudinesco had mostly ignored Lacan through her childhood, despite him being a family friend. Badiou, on the other hand, details his development from a Sartrean to an anti-Humanist student of Althusser before coming upon the work of Lacan.
Learn All About Nietzsche and Science in 3 Minutes – With Video Games!
“Does Science = Truth?”is from a new series called “8-Bit Philosophy” that uses video game sprites to explain philosophy.
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Marxist Craigslist Personal Seeks Degenerate Trotskyite [NSFW]
I’ve never been one to seek romance on Craigslist, but if I did, it’s probably a good idea to invent weirdly specific scenarios about inter-Marxist philosophical conflicts. After reading this San Francisco personal seeking a “degenerate Trotskyite,” anarchist, or revisionist Communist Party member, I’m a bit inspired. Perhaps, “Deleuzian seeks raging Lacanian to make an Oedipal triangle? “
Free Read: New Issue of Foucault Studies on Deleuze and Foucault
The latest issue of Foucault Studies, an open-access journal, is now out! This issue, entitled “Foucault and Deleuze,” seeks to tackle the “critical deficit” in academic work on the relationship between Deleuze and Foucault’s work.
Read Camus’ Letter to His Elementary School Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize
After winning the Nobel Prize, philosopher Albert Camus thought to thank his mother first, and an elementary school teacher second. Camus wrote this letter (below) to his teacher Louis Germain who, according to Letters of Note, “fostered the potential he saw and steered young Camus on a path that would eventually see him write some hugely respected, award-winning novels and essays.”
10 Awesome May Day Posters From Around the World and History
May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Riots in Chicago and is often celebrated by anarchists, socialists and labor organizations alike. These posters come from Russia, Cuba, Palestine, Mexico, Turkey and the United States and span from 1894 to current day.