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The discourse of deconstruction

Sean Noah Walsh (FIU): Masters of Hyperreality: Injustice in the Discourse of Deconstruction. Jan Jagodzinski (Alberta): Struggling with Zizek's Ideology: The Deleuzian Complaint, Or, Why is Zizek a Disguised Deleuzian in Denial? Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy (UWO): What’s the "Matter" with Materialism? Walter Benjamin and the New Janitocracy. From the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Rocco Gangle (Endicott) Messianic Media: Benjamin’s Cinema, Badiou’s Matheme, Negri’s Multitude; and Mark Cauchi (York): The Secular to Come: Interrogating the Derridean "Secular". From the Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, Torkild Thanema and Louise Wallenbergb (Stockholm): Buggering Freud and Deleuze: Toward a Queer Theory of Masochism; and Matthew Mullane (Hiram): The Aesthetic Ear: Sound Art, Jacques Ranciere and the Politics of Listening. From Minerva, Daniel Whitcomb Ambord (LMU): Wrong Turns on the Way to the Graveyard: The Death of Man and the Status of the Subject in Foucault Studies; and Robert Platt (RWU): Ontological Excess and the Being of Language. From Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, a review of Antonio Negri's Reflections on Empire and Empire and Beyond; a review of Jacques Ranciere's The Aesthetic Unconscious; and a review of Heidegger, Work and Being by Todd S. Mei. A review of Badiou and Theology by Frederiek Depoortere. A book review forum on Foucault's Law by Ben Golder and Peter Fitzpatrick. A review of Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text. A review of Philosophy in the Present by Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek. An interview with Slavoj Zizek on communism, poststructural theory and his reluctance to play poster boy for the fashionable European left. A review of Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek (and more).