Author Archives: Babette Babich

Robot Sex, Roombas — and Alan Rickman

Originally posted some years ago (ca. 2017) on de Gruyter ‘Conversations’ but needing updates owing to fairly fatal, reading wise, and very literal: deadlinks … nobody likes deadlinks… Babette Babich | 17.08.2017. Updated 14 February 2024 Robot lovers, given current technology, are not particularly good at being robots, much less at ‘being’ Alan Rickman. NowContinue reading “Robot Sex, Roombas — and Alan Rickman”

Reiner Schürmann’s and Heidegger’s ‘Unknown God’

MATTHEW KRUGER-ROSSJuly 7, 2023 at 10:10 pm Dear Friends & Members of the Heidegger Circle: We are pleased to announce our upcoming summer seasonal gathering with the theme of Reiner Schürmann on Martin Heidegger. The gathering will be on Wednesday, July 19 from 12:00-1:30PM EST on Zoom. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9052560171?pwd=cXQ3UWo2YkE2dnJsU1o5cHFWdnUyZz09 Our invited speakers are Babette Babich,Continue reading “Reiner Schürmann’s and Heidegger’s ‘Unknown God’”

Dionysus in Music: On the ‘God of Sex and Drums and Rock and Roll’

— In memoriam: Michael Lee Aday: 1947-2022 — If one could think the Dionysian in music, what would that be like? What would that sound like? Better still: who would that be? Nietzsche tells us in a book, starting with the very first section through to the end of The Birth of Tragedy Out ofContinue reading “Dionysus in Music: On the ‘God of Sex and Drums and Rock and Roll’”

Retrieving Agamben’s Questions

There is tremendous disquiet all around — enough for a lifetime and a half, lived and unlived.  But in this time of crisis, scholars otherwise keen to pick through Heidegger’s Nazi enabling complicity, attuned to what he said or wrote — or failed to say or failed to write — find themselves repeating currently standardContinue reading “Retrieving Agamben’s Questions”