Author: Gareth (Gareth Williams)

José Luis Villacañas* editing and publication by 17, instituto de estudios críticos Volume 1, 2012 Resulta imposible extraer las enseñanzas de la experiencia marrana de Baruch de Spinoza al margen del Tratado teológico-político. Sin embargo, este libro está sometido a las más dispares interpretaciones. Respecto de los propios pensadores judíos ha sido caracterizado como escandaloso. Respecto de los...

Gareth Williams* editing and publication by 17, instituto de estudios críticos Volume 1, 2012 The world is a labyrinth from which it is impossible to escape because all roads, even when they pretend to go North or South, really go to Rome.—Jorge Luis Borges Recent scholarship on Alfonso Reyes and the anti-positivist generation of scholars known...

Davide Tarizzo * editing and publication by 17, instituto de estudios críticos Volume 1, 2012 «Pour m’exprimer comme il me vient, rien n’est incompatible avec la vérité: on pisse, on crache dedans. C’est un lieu de passage, ou pour mieux dire, d’évacuation. […] La vérité est seduction d’abord, et pour vous couillonner. Pour ne pas s’y...

Samuel SteinbergDenison university * editing and publication by 17, instituto de estudios críticos Volume 2, 2012 That is what the word “emancipation” means:the blurring of the boundary between those who act and thosewho look; between individualsand members of a collective body.—Jacques Rancière[1] I insist: fraternity is the real manifestation ofthe new world, and hence of the...

Jelica SumicUniversity of Nova Gorica. institute of philosophy of the scientific research center, Slovenian academy of sciences and arts * editing and publication by 17, instituto de estudios críticos Volume 2, 2012 It is one of Lacan’s rather startling statements that we find the formulation that will guide us: “I do not say ‘politics is the...

Joan CopjecCenter for the study of psychoanalysis and culture, university of Buffalo * editing and publication by 17, instituto de estudios críticos Volume 2, 2012 A zigzag path carved into a hill winds from base to crest, where it is crowned by a lushly-leafed tree standing solitary and upright like a kind of hieratic bouquet: this...

Carlos Monsiváis * editing and publication by 17, instituto de estudios críticos Volume 2, 2012 Las fotos y las escenas televisivas sí le dieron para honrar la frase “la vuelta al mundo”. Policías y soldados protegen a los niños de un colegio de Tijuana que oyen los disparos intensos a un par de cuadras, en otro...

Dany-Robert DufourUniversité de Paris 8translated from the french by michela russo and peter baker * editing and publication by 17, instituto de estudios críticos Volume 2, 2012 Passion I’ll begin with the term “passion”, to the extent that it is dear to me as a philosopher. “Passion” is actually situated at the very core of the...

Oscar Ariel CabezasUniversity of British Columbia * editing and publication by 17, instituto de estudios críticos Volume 3, 2012 This book is an attempt to re-think the concept of politics beyond cultural studies and political theories on civil society. In his approach to various Latin American cultural and political phenomena, Jon Beasley-Murray re-opens a debate on...

Luis Duno-GottbergRice university * editing and publication by 17, instituto de estudios críticos Volume 3, 2012 If comparative literature is supposedly a “dying discipline”,[1] this has certainly been a slow death punctuated by auspicious revivals; and none more promising than Moira Fradinger’s recent Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins. In fact, such an inspired reflection on literature and...