I no longer blog thanks to Twitter, teaching and other commitments. However, I will dedicate--and hopefully continue to update--this post as a resource guide to my writings on antifascism around ...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-philosophy-of-antifascism-resources.html
Tomorrow I'll be giving a talk at Memorial University in St. John’s, titled "The State and the Police: Considerations on Jacques Rancière and Pierre Clastres." In the talk, I examine the prob...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2016/10/talk-at-mun-ranciere-and-clastres.html
The book launch for Rethinking German Idealism was probably as successful as can be for a book in a prohibitively priced hardcover: a good turn out, lots of questions, free food (as you'll see b...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2016/09/schellings-anthropocentrism-short.html
From Facebook : > It is with great pleasure that I invite you to the book launch for > Rethinking German Idealism (edited by Sean McGrath and Joseph Carew, > Palgrav...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2016/09/book-launch-rethinking-german-idealism.html
In Society against the State, Pierre Clastres writes, > from its beginnings our culture has conceived of political power in > terms of hierarchized and authoritarian relations ...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2016/07/on-ranciere-and-clastres-and-todd-may.html
These days, the time I used to spend blogging has been expended on being managing book review editor for Symposium and the CSCP. That does not mean that Matt and I have ended our philosophical ba...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2016/07/book-exchange-mclennan-and-shaw.html
I not only review books in philosophy, but also about baseball, strikes, and labor. The Hardball Times has published my review of Jeff Katz's book Split Season 1981: Fernandomania, the Bronx Zo...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2016/05/reviewing-split-season-1981.html
INTERSECTIONALITY In a pair of recent essays, both Rian Watt (in “Life at the Margins” ) and Craig Calcaterra (in “The Intersectionalist Manifesto” ) challenge the idea that baseball ...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2016/03/baseball-and-intersectionality-or.html
My reading lists are probably at their most diverse when I'm not in the midst of a book project. While some of the major features of the next project are coming into focus, I've been reading a v...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2016/03/latest-arrivals.html
I'm part of a Feuerbach reading group, and I'm attempting to give his work more time than I did when I read The Essence of Christianity. I've only gotten as far as the first paragraph of Feuerba...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-oriental-idea-feuerbach-and.html
Symposium has published my review of Martin Breaugh, Christopher Holman, Rachel Magnusson, Paul Mazzocchi, and Devin Penner (eds.), Thinking Radical Democracy: The Return to Politics in Post-wa...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2016/01/review-of-thinking-radical-democracy.html
My review of Todd May's Friendship in an Age of Economics has been published by Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies . You might already know, given that I briefly recounted the story in t...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2016/01/review-of-todd-mays-friendship-in-age.html
I am probably not the only person who has noticed that there are a greater than normal amount of critical articles about vegans and animal rights floating around on social media sites lately. Ev...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/12/on-veganism-and-animal-rights_17.html
(New York: NYRB Classics, 2015) A quick scan of William Sloane's biography reveals that he contributed more to the literary world as an editor and publisher than as a novelist. Sloane's only tw...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/11/book-review-rim-of-morning-two-tales-of.html
Today's my first full day back from the North American Sartre Society. Lately, since Storm Heter specifically asked me about this, the blog writing process proceeds as follows: Brainstorm. In th...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/11/sartre-society-wrap.html
The final schedule is now available for the North American Sartre Society meeting happening this weekend. It is available here . I'll be giving a talk during the first session on Friday (2:00–...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/11/schedule-for-nass-2015.html
Here's the poster for the upcoming Sartre Society meeting. The organizers are still finalizing the schedule, but last I looked I'm giving a talk on an existentialist response to Eugene Thacker's ...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/11/poster-for-nass-2015.html
Last time we were on the phone, I discovered that even my own mother didn't know the book would be available soon, so I must have been remiss in mentioning it: Egalitarian Moments is availab...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/10/books-received-egalitarian-moments_26.html
Matt McLennan's first book, on Badiou and Lyotard, is now available in hardcover . I said "first book" because Matt and I are planning on co-authoring and completing a book entitled "A Herm...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/10/available-now-philosophy-sophistry.html
I got word today that Egalitarian Moments has gone to press. It's completely out of my hands now. But this post isn't so much about EM as it is about another book. One of the other long-time con...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/09/its-out-of-my-hands.html
As a follow up to the previous post: the course on the history of social and political philosophy also gives me a chance to catch up on some secondary literature that I've been meaning to read: ...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/08/voluntary-servitude-continued.html
In Fall 2015, I'll be teaching PHIL 3330A: Topics in History of Social and Political Philosophy, at Carleton University. The purpose of the course is, loosely speaking, to familiarize students w...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/08/teaching-voluntary-servitude.html
In the last two weeks, I've completed two major writing projects. The first task was copy-editing Egalitarian Moments. Rereading the text reminded me that I should get more efficient at following...
Something that Matt and I will be participating in next week: THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH MORNING 09:30 – 10:00 Registration / Coffee 10:00 – 10:05 ...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/03/anti-humanism-and-public-ethics-program.html
A bulk of my writing on the blog in 2014 was dedicated to recounting or posting matters related to my next book, Egalitarian Moments. This reflected that most of time that involved writing in...
http://notes-taken.blogspot.com/2015/01/2014-writing-in-review.html