A week and a half ago, i attended a lecture by Professor Peter Hallward on Alain Badiou's Ethics at the ICA (as part of the Verso Books Radical Thinkers series). It was the perfect follow on to the Birkbeck conference on Hegel a week and...
Haiti and cholera have been coming up a lot lately. I have a meeting with an MSc student next week to talk about her dissertation on the topic. Ansel Herz has recently written what i found to be an appropriately critical if a rather forgiving...
After weeks of struggling with the reason for placing blame in the cholera outbreak in Haiti, i finally landed on an argument that makes sense to me, and, hopefully, makes sense to others, as well. This was never about the "blame game", rather, was deeply...