Berlusconi in Tehran

Slavoj Zizek has a new piece up in the London Review of Books, focused on Iran and Berlusconi. Elsewhere, Graham Harman is undertaking a live-blogging of the writing of his new book - an immensely helpful set of posts that help to de-mystify the writing process. And Michael O'Neill Burns has just written on Peter Hallward's latest intriguing piece on 'The Will of the People'. Hallward's project has always been interesting and daring for its breaks with what is currently fashionable in philosophy, and I hope to soon put up a post about this latest essay. And this has been around the politics blogosphere lately, but in case you missed it, Marc Lynch has an international relations reading of the feud between Jay-Z and The Game and its relation to American hegemony - easily one of the best blog posts in the last little while. Finally, I've been having a fascinating and productive online discussion with Nate and Duncan about non-philosophy and Ray Brassier's work. Definitely a lot to think about throughout the discussion, and ideally I'll try to systematize some of the thoughts at some future point. I'm busy with a couple other, off-line, projects right now, so posting will remain unfortunately light for the foreseeable future.