Texts

This page collects texts that were discussed in the past seminars and talks organised by the CMT. The collection also includes some texts that were published by members of the centre in response to these seminars.

Gérard Bensussan

Following a series of talks, Prof. Bensussan graciously allowed us to post a paper of one talk, and notes on the other.

• Marx and the exit of philosophy
• Notes on a talk on Franz Rosenzweig

Mario Biagioli

• Documents of Documents: Scientists’ Names and Scientific Claims
• Patent Republic: Representing Inventions, Constructing Rights and Authors
• Stress in the Book of Nature: The Supplemental Logic of Galileo’s Realism

Petar Bojanic

• Last War, or a war to make the world safe for democracy:
  Violence and Right in Hannah Arendt
• Terrorism:
  Terror and Explosion (‘…importance of fire and the construction of bombs…’)
• ‘The USA has no enemy because it has no form (Gestalt) …
  ’ Enemy, Animal and Animal Functions in Schmitt and Hegel

Edward Campbell

• Boulez, Music and Philosophy

Joshua Clover

• The Actuality of Communism (Review for Politica Comun)

Julen Extabe

• Constitución Retórica, Constitución (Im)posible:
  Hermenéutica de la Nación en el Proyecto de Constitución
  de Cádiz y en la Sentencia sobre el Estatuto de Cataluña

Christopher Fynsk

• From the Introduction (draft version) to The Claim of Language:
  A Case for the Humanities
• Introduction to Infant Figures (Stanford University Press, 2000)

Manuel Guillén

• La teoría del zombi

Nikolaj Lübecker

• Le sacrifice de la sirène.
  «Un coup de dés» et la poétique de Stéphane Mallarmé

Alberto Moreiras

• Enfermedad del espíritu e historia sacrificial.
  Sobre Cristianismo sin redenciónde Vincenzo Vitiello
• Newness, World Language, Alterity. On Borges’ Mark
• Infrapolitics and the Thriller: A Prolegomenon to Every
  Possible Form of Anti-Moralist Literary Criticism. On Héctor
  Aguilar Camín´s La guerra de Galio and Morir en el golfo
• The Last God: María Zambrano’s Life Without Texture

Jay Murphy

• Marina Abramovic
• Michael Zansky
• Eshleman’s Caves
• I Visited Last Sunday. It Was the Heart of Darkness

Nick Nesbitt

• African Music, Ideology, and Utopia
• Departmentalization and the Logic of Decolonialization
• The Expulsion of the Negative: Deleuze, Adorno,
  and the Ethics of Internal Difference
• Stepping Outside the Magic Circle:
  The Critical Thought of Maryse Condé

Ernesto Oyarbide

• Action, Speech, and Meaning in Aristotle's Poetics:
  The power of stories

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli

• Floating on the Borders of Europe:
  Sokurov's Russian Ark
• Shaking Down LA Cool: Hopping Up Neo-Noir
• The Visual Grammar of Suffering:
  Pia Lindman and the Performance of Grief

Michael Syrotinski

• Les Fleurs de Tarbes, ou la terreur dans les lettres
  (The Flowers of Tarbes, or Terror in Literature):
  A Translation and Critical Edition

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