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”
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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’”
Jacob Taubes in Brazil
The Political Theology of Jacob TaubesGilson Schwartz Apocalypse and End-Time: Jacob Taubes and Günther AndersBabette Babich
Announcings
Short Book Talk
At Fordham University, Lincoln Center: “On Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology”
Günther Anders in Rotterdam
Post-Lecture post
IVAN ILLICH’S MEDICAL NEMESIS IN A TIME OF COVID: THE EXPROPRIATION OF HEALTH
25 February 2022 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, 16:00, Moscow time
Nietzsche: Looking Right, Reading Left
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”
The revolution will be televised.
The revolution will be televised. It is already underway. Already, the first generation of the Frankfurt School, including Günther Anders as well as the more prominent and well known Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse, foregrounded the role of media in all of its many guises, mostly broadcast, radio, newsreel, film, television, but alsoContinue reading “The revolution will be televised.”
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