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'Stupid Men in Moldy Flats: On Lars Iyer's trilogy'. Davi...

'Stupid Men in Moldy Flats: On Lars Iyer's trilogy'. David Morris on Exodus, Dogma and Spurious.

Today sees the publication of Exodus in the USA.

Today sees the publication of Exodus in the USA. 

 

Cover of the Spanish translation of Spurious, forthco...

Cover of the Spanish translation of Spurious, forthcoming from Palido Fuego. They've given Levinas the walking stick! 

Proposed cover of the Spanish translation of Spurious, ...

Proposed cover of the Spanish translation of Spurious, forthcoming from Palido Fuego. 

Spurious, in Croatian, as Mudrovanje, from Edicije Božiče...

Spurious, in Croatian, as Mudrovanje, from Edicije Božičević (Zagreb, 2012). Translated by Marijana Bender Vranković and Nikolina Fuštar. The novel has been given the subtitle, Što je zabavnije od intelektualnog mudrovanja?, What's more fun than intellectual arguments? The title can be translated as Weaseling.

New interview at Full Stop on the topic of pathos.Olga ...

New interview at Full Stop on the topic of pathos.

Olga Silver writes a profile of me (in Russian)

This is a featured post. New posts will continue to go up...

This is a featured post. New posts will continue to go up below this one.

Upcoming EXODUS events

Oxford

Jan 23rd, 7PM: Blackwells, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ

London

Jan 24th, 6.30 PM: Betsy Trotswood, 56 Farringdon Rd, Clerkenwell, London, EC1R 3BL.

New York

Feb 11th: Franklin Park Reading Series. At Franklin Park, 618 St. John’s Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Feb 12th, 6PM: NYU Bookstore, 726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.

Feb 13th, 7PM: 192 Books, 192 10th Ave, New York, NY 10011.

Boston area

Feb 14th, 7PM: Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Newcastle, UK

Feb, Blackwells, TBA

Exodus by Lars Iyer: Exodus, which follows Spurious and D...

Exodus by Lars Iyer: Exodus, which follows Spurious and Dogma, is the eminently satisfying and unexpectedly moving final installment in a truly original trilogy about two wandering British intellectuals—Lars and W., not to be confused with Lars Iyer and his real friend W., whom he’s been quoting for years on his blog—and their endless search for meaning in a random universe, for true originality of thought, for a leader, for better gin. (Emily M.)

Exodus is featured in The Millions Books 2013 preview. 

It's also one of the Interesting New Books 2013 featured on Conversational Reading.

The British Society for Phenomenology 2013 Annual Confere...

The British Society for Phenomenology 2013 Annual Conference

Remembering the Impossible Tomorrow: Italian Political Thought and the Recent Crisis in Capitalism

5th- 7th April, 2013

St Hilda’s College Oxford

During Marx’s time radical thought was formed from a convergence of three sources: German philosophy, English economics, and French politics. In the introduction to Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics (1996) Michael Hardt argued that these tides had shifted, with radical movements drawing from French philosophy, US economics, and Italian politics. More recently, Matteo Pasquinelli has argued that ‘Italian theory’ has attained an academic hegemony comparable to that held by French philosophy in the 1980s.

But despite the proliferation of analysis and organizing drawing from and inspired by the history of autonomous politics in Italy, where are these voices today? In 2012, if you listened to the mainstream politicians and economic experts and no-one else, you would hardly know that there was any financial crisis in 2008. You might have a faint recollection that for a brief moment alternative voices were heard in the media, but now it as if nothing at all had happened.  The waters that once had parted have now engulfed us again. It is the same voices articulating the same tired ideas as the whole of Europe slides into the nightmare of austerity, despite the fact they do not appear to have any relation to reality, and even those who speak them seem exhausted and worn out.

For some time now, many of us have noticed that there have been different voices, and they began speaking many years before 2008 warning us of an impending disaster. These voices were coming from Italy. Perhaps because of their own experience, the radical Italian thinkers never believed the logic of the market could solve its own problems or that life and capital were one and the same.  Our hope is to draw from this history as well as listen to some of the new generation of Italian political thinkers, to share their ideas, offer an alternative diagnosis of the present, and perhaps even a suggestion of what different future might look like.

Confirmed Speakers:

Dario Gentili
Paolo Do
Federico Chicchi
Christian Marazzi
Anna Simone
Franco Berardi
Tony O’Connor
Sinead Murphy
Franco Barchiesi

Full programme details and registration forms can be found at the society's website http://britishphenomenology.org.uk/

Any issues or questions concerning registration please contact wlarge@glos.ac.uk

Exodus by Lars Iyer (Melville House). The final volume in...

Exodus by Lars Iyer (Melville House). The final volume in Iyer's gloomily brilliant trilogy about a toxic friendship between unfortunate philosophy dons, boozing and bitching in the great tradition of Beckett's double acts.

The Guardian chooses EXODUS as one of their books to look out for in 2013.

DOGMA longlisted for the 3:AM novel of the year prize.