Thursday, February 19, 2004
(6:24 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
The University without Condition Begins Now
Sorry to use two Derrida phrases as titles in a row.
In any case, the university without condition, sponsored by à Gauche and the Kotsko Institute for Advanced Intertextual Studies, begins now. We will be reading Walter Benjamin's essay "Critique of Violence," available in Reflections. Those who do not have access to the book may e-mail either me or à Gauche to receive a convenient, printable PDF copy of the essay. It is approximately twenty pages long. So far, the participatngs include me, à Gauche, Mike Hancock, and Cap'n Pete.
I'm not sure if we're going to try to put any time parameters on this -- perhaps that would be a good discussion for the comment box, for those who would like to participate. Once we reach the end of the time period we designate for reading the material, those of us with blogging capabilities can begin posting, or perhaps we could designate one person to be the comment central for the university without condition.
In any case, thanks to à Gauche for being impatient and making a concrete effort to get this project off the ground.
I would also like to note that, barring complication, the new format I proposed last week will be operational by Friday morning.
