Nomadics

In last night this point of info on that other front, the weather-front, via John Maas (who found it on the ViveLeCanada website)— which gave me nightmare visions of arctic fireworks blowing the last...

In the 26 January issue of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, François Zabbal, the editor of the excellent Qantara magazine, published by the Institut du Monde Arabe (their English website version is here) in Paris,...

The arctic habitat of polar bears is under threat as climate change causes ice to melt.Photograph: Joseph Napaaqtuq Sage/AP I had hardly finished yesterday’s post on Climate Change, when friend John Maas called my...

On the same day — today — that Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was buried, his close friend and collaborator Jean-Luc Nancy published an homage in the daily Libération. Obviosuly there has not yet been time to...

I remember that it was somewhere around that pivotal year 1968 that I heard for the first time the word “ecology.” I remember picking up my first literature on those matters, from Rachel Carson’s...

Mohammed Khair-Eddine was my room-mate in Shakespeare & Co in Paris for some weeks back in ’65/’66. It was he who introduced me to Maghebian literature and to a Rimbaldian/ Mediterranean intensity in matters...

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was more than “just” a philosopher: he was someone who came to philosophy through literature and was one of the finest readers of literary texts, vide his book on Paul Celan, Poetry...

The sad news of the death of French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe just in, via Mark Thwaite’s blog, where Mark posted the following announcement: Chers collègues, chers amis, Je viens d’apprendre avec une grande émotion...

Poetry Reading @ University of Chicago, april 13 2005QT video. mp3.

I have never been a fan of Pascal Bruckner, someone I associate with the emergence of the neo-con French philosophers known as the “Nouveaux Philosophes.” Indeed, I thought that the book that brought him...