December 8, 2011
by Alexander Brey
Comments Off on A prescription for description? Some concluding thoughts…
The conclusion of my last post was totally dodgy, for which I apologize, but blogging is all about thinking in public so this time I’ll shoot for something slightly more articulate. I left off with this tantalizing and mildly idiotic … Continue reading
December 1, 2011
by Alexander Brey
Comments Off on The Strange Fates of Levinas
I was left a little puzzled by Butler’s lecture last Monday evening. The bulk of the lecture was devoted to a deconstruction of Levinas’s and Arendt’s ethical approaches to alterity. The first is a radical prioritization of the other, the … Continue reading
November 17, 2011
by Alexander Brey
Comments Off on In Defense of Anarchy
On Monday Judith Butler presented what might be the most eloquent defense of anarchism that I’ve ever heard. Butler’s argument is grounded in the fact that in every political entity in existence today, there exists a disparity between the claims … Continue reading
November 10, 2011
by Alexander Brey
Comments Off on Archaeologies of Precarity
Archaeology has taken me to both sides of the Israeli-Arab conflict in the Middle East: the summer before last I was excavating a late Roman fort in Jordan south of the Dead Sea, while this past summer I was working … Continue reading
November 3, 2011
by Alexander Brey
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Yesterday I attended Professor Alice Donohue’s lecture on “The Lifelikeness of Greek Art” and I was struck by the ways in which the body in art is always a site of overlapping normative frameworks. There is of course the normative … Continue reading
October 27, 2011
by Alexander Brey
Comments Off on How to do History with Judith Butler
First, of all, I just want to say that it’s a little strange to be on the other side of the glass here at the Flexner reading group blog. For my first post I want to talk a little bit … Continue reading