Interview with Michel Maffesoli on Postmodernity



Michel Maffesoli (Photo by Simon Dawes)


Before Michel Maffesoli gave his talk on ‘Le Temps Revient: Les Formes Elémentaires de la Postmodernité’ in Montpellier (France), Simon Dawes met him at his hotel to discuss postmodernity, the state of sociology in France, and letting the burning house of modernity burn.

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Nigel Clark: Beyond Justice? The Radical Asymmetries of Climate Change



Photo: Nigel Clark


Nigel Clark's lecture 'Beyond Justice? The Radical Asymmetries of Climate Change' was presented at the Department of Geography, King’s College, London on 19th October, 2010. We interviewed him about it last week, and now Nigel has agreed to let us reproduce the full text of his lecture exclusively on the TCS Blog.

Read more on the desire for justice, the importance of the body in our ‘learning to be affected’ by climate change, and on the possibility of asymmetrical gestures

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John W.P. Phillips: On how Slavoj Zizek doesn’t know how to read



Photo: John W.P. Phillips


Following an interview with John Phillips on the TCS Blog in September, we asked him to follow-up on some of his references and claims. Here is his third and final (for now) post: on deconstruction, the possibility of impossibility, and how Slavoj Žižek doesn’t know how to read

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