http://machines.pomona.edu/149-2007/taxonomy/term/234/0 en http://machines.pomona.edu/149-2007/node/194 <p>In doing a little online research, I came across this gem: a NYT op-ed piece written by Slavoj Zizek that name-checks Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer theorizations.</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/opinion/24zizek.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/opinion/24zizek.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/opinion/24zizek.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin</a></p> <p>The article refers to events roughly two weeks prior, when Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confessed to organizing the 9/11 attacks. Here's the original NYT article about that.</p> <p><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E5DB1E31F936A25750C0A9619C8B63" title="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E5DB1E31F936A25750C0A9619C8B63">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E5DB1E31F936A25750C0A...</a></p> <p><a href="http://machines.pomona.edu/149-2007/node/194">read more</a></p> http://machines.pomona.edu/149-2007/node/194#comments Agamben NYT torture zizek Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:34:05 +0000 capt haddock 194 at http://machines.pomona.edu/149-2007 http://machines.pomona.edu/149-2007/node/110 <p>In the West, "the obligation to confess is now relayed through so many different points, is so deeply ingrained in us, that we no longer perceive it as the effect of a power that constrains us; on the contrary, it seems to us that truth, lodged in our most secret nature, demands only to surface" (60). </p> <p>"With these confessed truths, we are a long way from the learned initiations into pleasure, with their technique and their mystery" (62).</p> <p><a href="http://machines.pomona.edu/149-2007/node/110">read more</a></p> http://machines.pomona.edu/149-2007/node/110#comments confession Foucault torture Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:01:38 +0000 oh brother 110 at http://machines.pomona.edu/149-2007