FBI Files on Nikola Tesla (1940-1983)
Filed under records | Tags: · electricity, history, history of science, invention, marxism, politics, science, security, yugoslavia
Released through the Freedom of Information Act.
Publisher Federal Bureau of Information, undated
FBI Records: The Vault series
290 pages
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Myth: The FBI has Nikola Tesla’s plans for a “death ray” (FBI: Top 10 Myths)
Henri Lefebvre: Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time, and Everyday Life (1992/2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · city, everyday, history, life, marxism, movement, presence, space, time
“Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms — both biological and social — Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life. With dazzling skills, Lefebvre moves between discussions of music, the commodity, measurement, the media and the city. In doing so he shows how a non-linear conception of time and history balanced his famous rethinking of the question of space. This volume also includes his earlier essays on ‘The Rhythmanalysis Project’ and ‘Attempt at the Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Towns’.”
First published as Éléments de rythmnanalyse, Syllepse, Paris, 1992.
Translated by Stuart Elden and Gerald Moore
With an Introduction by Stuart Elden
Publisher Continuum, 2004
Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series
ISBN 0826472990, 9780826472991
112 pages
Reviews and commentaries: Guillerm (L Homme et la société, 1992, FR), Horton (Time & Society, 2005), Revol (Rhuthmos, 2012).
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Comments (2)Jacques Derrida: Specters of Marx. The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International (1993/1994)
Filed under book | Tags: · communism, critique, deconstruction, hauntology, history, labour, marxism, philosophy, philosophy of history, politics, revolution
Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values.
In 1993, a conference was organized around the question, ‘Whither Marxism?’, and Derrida was invited to open the proceedings. His plenary address, ‘Specters of Marx’, delivered in two parts, forms the basis of this book. Hotly debated when it was first published, a rapidly changing world and world politics have scarcely dented the relevance of this book.
Originally published as Spectres de Marx, Galilee, 1993
Translated by Peggy Kamuf
With an Introduction by Bernd Magnus and Stephen Cullenberg
Publisher Routledge, 1994
Routledge Classics
ISBN 0415389577, 9780415389570
198 pages
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