If you are a human being with eyes and ears, and perhaps an Internet connection, you have probably heard about some of this week’s celebrity gossip: Justin Bieber was arrested,… Read more »

It’s no coincidence that Lars Iyer’s characters are fond of Plymouth Gin, Iyers affirmed at his NYU Bookstore reading this week. It’s specific to the characters’ locale during the course… Read more »

Via Open Culture, here’s a recording of Walter Kaufmann delivering a lecture at Princeton titled “Nietzsche and the Crisis in Philosophy” in 1960. Kaufmann, a renowned scholar who championed Friedrich… Read more »

Lars Iyer, author of the “viciously funny” novel Spurious and the forthcoming Dogma, has published a literary manifesto at the new UK quarterly magazine, The White Review (a different version of the… Read more »

Catching up on my Biblioklept yesterday, I caught the following video of Žižek talking about parenting (with some actual parenting thrown in for good measure) that would’ve been a bit more… Read more »

HowTheLightGetsIn, the philosophy and music festival at Hay on Wye has just ended. Wait. Let me repeat that: A philosophy and music festival. Brilliant. Lars Iyer, author of the “viciously… Read more »

The most talked about novel of the year so far has certainly been David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, an unfinished attempt to address the face the philosophical, existential, and day-to-day… 2 / Read more »

Free copy of Lars Iyer’s Spurious to the first person who can tell me what logical fallacy Bertrand Russell is employing in the following video.

A cache of newly rediscovered papers from Austrian-born British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein sheds new light on his thought. According to this report by the BBC: Professor Arthur Gibson, from the… Read more »

Writing at The New York Times philosophy blog, The Stone, Harvard philosophy professor Sean D. Kelly has written an essay about how to navigate between the Scylla and Charybdis of religious delusion and… 2 / Read more »