Avital Ronell and Judith Butler. Contemporaneity of Philosophy. 2006 2/3

[mayakronfeld]

I'm not sure I see the point. All her critique of "contemporaneity" seems to show is that some present states of affairs are CAUSED by past states of affairs. But that doesn't show that those present states of affairs are THEMSELVES past states of affairs!

[Nostressinthefarwest]

I can't understand the joke about the new agers (about 6). Can someone help me ? The sound isn't very good (as is my english...)

[bertinotti]

This is painful. Two broads aching for attention and a laugh. Convolutions and parentheses. "Spin offs and regurgitations"? It is lovely to watch someone so comfortable in her gaseous excrescensces.

[sshuck]

@bertinotti

Talking about "broads" and "excrescences" in the same comment does not make you a winner. Repeat: does *not*.

[matheme]

The challenge is to find the facts were the truth shines through, like Davis does...not to endlessly proliferate caveats from Nietzsche in order to arrive at the insight that New Agers are kind of retarded.

[matheme]

i can't believe she denies even the most basic materialist conception of history. Yes, "there is no contemporary," in some Lacanian sense of incompleteness, or because the ancients are modern or something paradoxical, the but there also kind of is a contemporary constellation of forces, that someone like Mike Davis works so hard to find.

[felixunus]

Jesus, will she please shut up. And I *like* postmodern theory.