The Feminist Review is now accepting submissions for a specially themed issue on food. Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2014.
Porn Studies is Now a Thing
The open-access journal launched back in March.
OKComrade: The Radical Left’s Amazing Answer to OKCupid
If you’ve ever perused OKCupid and been sickened by the masses of bourgeois scum, you’ll be delighted to hear the latest innovation in anti-capitalist dating: OKComrade.
The 10 Best Zizek Jokes to Get You Through Finals
Published in March, 2014, “Zizek’s Jokes” is a small book that claims to have captured the entirety of Slavoj Zizek’s published jokes in English, variations and all. Some of the jokes provide hilarious insight into Hegelian dialectics, Lacanian psychoanalysis or ideology. Others are just funny.
Animated Noam Chomsky Documentary Released on DVD
“Is the Man Who is Tall Happy,” an animated documentary featuring Noam Chomsky was released on DVD this week.
No, The New School is Not Becoming Parsons University
Yesterday, news broke on the New York Post that The New School could be renamed after its design and fashion division, Parsons.
Review: Why are Animals Funny? The EDA Collective
“Death Drive,” “hauntology,” “in horror vacui,” and “uber-chutzpa” are just a few of the phrases that grace the pages of “Why are Animals Funny? Everday Analysis: Volume 1,” published in the UK by independent publisher, Zero Books. “Why are Animals Funny?” is written by a band of, well, what I call renegades. They, however, call themselves the Everyday Analysis Collective (EDA Collective), a group comprised mostly of journalists and academics out of England.
Watch Jean-Luc Godard Deliver a Monologue From Arendt’s ‘On the Nature of Totalitarianism’
In this video, new wave French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard narrates an excerpt from Hannah Arendt’ essay “On the Nature of Totalitarianism: An Essay in Understanding.”
Submit Your Papers! Annual Historical Materialism Conference
The annual Historical Materialism Conference is London is accepting 200-word abstracts until tomorrow, May 15, 2014.
Inside The Global Center for Advanced Studies, a Chat with Creston Davis
Creston Davis left a cushy tenure-track job to start a graduate school from scratch. A year later, they’ve managed to grab some huge names in critical theory.