Saturday, June 03, 2006
(11:40 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
State Racism
Nancy has a short text on "biopolitics" that is remarkably clear and, I think, pretty interesting. I'd like to make it available in some form, because it seems that it would add to the conversation that's going on. Since translation -- even a relatively easy one, as in this case -- is kind of a lot of work, I'd like to take an informal poll of how many interested parties would be able to get by if I just typed out the French text and made it available here. Translating it isn't that big a deal, but it would just mean that I'd have to take longer to make it available, since I'm kind of swamped with trying to get the bulk of this Nancy stuff done before Ted (my advisor) gets back from Korea.It's found in Jean-Luc Nancy, La création du monde : ou la mondialisation (Paris: Galilée, 2002). The book is under contract to be translated by SUNY, though I have not been able to find an estimated release date. (I gained this information because I wanted to translate an essay out of the book -- and, let's be honest, eventually the whole damn thing -- but someone got to it first.)
UPDATE: It just occurred to me that the title Une pensée finie, which is translated "A Finite Thinking," could also mean "A Finished Thinking."
