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COVID PDF SHARING FOR QUARANTINE READING Matt Flisfeder had a good idea, so I’m posting here for people to post 1 article and/or book OF YOURS that you have in pdf that you can share out for people. Post either your pdf download link from open source or places like academia.edu or your email and book you can send. From Matt Flisfeder: I'm happy to send people a PDF of my book, Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner if you'd like to read it. Email me at [email protected]. P...ut "Book Share" in the subject heading. Will anyone else share their work in these troubled times?

Nice way to wrap-up the 2010's "Žižek Studies: The Greatest Hits (So Far)" Peter Lang Publishing USA A decade of the best and the brightest from the "Internati...onal Journal of Žižek Studies" carefully curated and presented in one easy-to-use volume. And #1 in the new series edited by Antonio Garcia and Rex Butler. https://peterlang.com/view/title/65200

New book by one of our directors, David Gabbard, which should be an interesting read. Silencing Ivan Illich Revisited exhumes the discursive corpus of Ivan Illich and performs a unique pedagogical autopsy that begs the question of why Illich’s work has not been given the same archival place as other reformation/revolutionary discourses. Gabbard delivers an Illichian critique of education and schools qua objects bound to the edificial and ideological presuppositions of the st...ate reminiscent of Althusser. Why has Illich been so overlooked or neglected in the critical discourses of education? Gabbard explores and critiques the messianic ideology and opportunism that lead educational academics to form de facto dogmatic allegiances that reduced the discourse to a singular trajectory (i.e., messianic) in educational reform. Here is a timely provocation to abandon the 'singular' for a more illuminated contemplation of an educational black hole whereby we view the event horizon and the contemplation of a 'singularity' that is the possible deschooling qua education. To question education beyond the confinement of state compulsory schooling seems to have ex-communicated Illich. However, as Gabbard returns to this underlying theme of the messianic, Illich could not be ex-communicated from something that he had no membership with in the first place. In short, Silencing Ivan Illich Revisited provokes us to think about Illich in a way that we cannot ignore when it comes to the current educational ideologies that have been exclusionary to those discourses that propose a differing, even antagonistic, realm of conceptualizing schooling, school reform, and the very notion of education as a didactic human endeavor in an increasingly globalized world." (Antonio Garcia, Žižekian Institute) See more

December 8 - deadline extension for submissions 2020 Zizek Studies Conference - Call for Proposals and Presentations 5th Biennial International Zizek Studies Conference...Continue reading

After alot of work and a great collaborator (Rex Butler), the series is starting to roll out. If you have proposals or inquiries about submitting a book idea then email me at [email protected] #zizekstudies #zizek