3.11.2011

> The syllabus for my Spring Quarter course on Hannah Arendt is now available in the classroom. If you're interested in taking the course, come to the first session. I don't give consent in advance.

> This website has been dormant but I haven't been. If you'd like to see my most recent publications, check out my updated CV.

> It's time for a website overhaul. Watch this space. Not too intently: I make no promises about when the new site is coming. But it is.

12.08.2008

> The draft syllabus for my Winter Quarter course on Hannah Arendt is now available in the classroom.

5.13.2007

> I will be on leave during 2007-2008, with support from an ACLS Fellowship, working on a new project on Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition.

12.06.2006

> My Winter Quarter graduate seminar will still be on "Politics, Art, and Aesthetics." The syllabus is now available in the classroom.

8.03.2006

> Iris Marion Young, 1949-2006.

> My Winter Quarter graduate seminar will be on "Politics, Art, and Aesthetics." The description is in the classroom.

6.30.2006

> Tomorrow's the first day of July, which means I get to recycle half a box of business cards that say "Assistant Professor" on them. It also means I get to go to the Green City Market and buy astonishingly good fruit. I'm not sure which of those things makes me happier. No, wait, I'm sure....

3.14.2006

> The syllabus for "Democratic Theory" (Spring 2006) is now available in the classoom. Also, my article "Rule of the People: Arendt, Archê, and Democracy" has just appeared in the February 2006 issue of the American Political Science Review.

2.12.2006

> Happy new year! A description, though not yet a syllabus, for "Democratic Theory" (Spring 2006) is now available in the classoom. The syllabus should be along in mid-March or so.

12.12.2005

> The syllabus for "Language, Politics, and Political Theory" is now available in the classoom. Thanks for your patience.

11.11.2005

> There's been an important change in the classoom. If you'd been planning to take "Language, History and Political Theory" in the Winter, please take a look; it's only a one-word change in the course title, but a more substantial change in the content.

11.09.2005

> The syllabus for my Arendt class is now available in the classoom. The grad seminar syllabus will be along in early December.

9.26.2005

> First day of the quarter, and I'm actually refreshed, having spent some time at the left edge of the continent without a landline, cell connection, television, computer, or newspaper.

> Also, if you haven't noticed, it's fig season. Please do everything you can to mark this important occasion.

> Some new work of mine will be appearing in various places in 2006; check the CV for further details.

6.13.2005

> It's hot. Things are ripening. I've crawled out of my hole. It's been a good year; thanks to everyone who made it so. You know who you are.

> Nonacademic highlights of the spring included a terrific Roots Manuva show at the Empty Bottle, an inspiring fundraiser for the Velvet Lounge relocation, Michael Frayn's Spies, and the first week of strawberries from Nichols Farm....

> As usual, the Soundtrack and the Classroom are the only things to have been updated lately. (I'll be near a working internet connection more frequently this year, so don't give up on the rest of the site.) I'll post syllabi for new courses as they become available.

1.14.2005

> A quarter spent largely off the grid has been refreshing. At left, temporarily displacing the bound Fury, you'll see our friend the American kestrel, who seems to enjoy the view from the thirteenth floor as much as we do.

> As you might have noticed, Extracts is languishing, though not for want of reading. I'll try to do better this year. Meanwhile, I'm trying to keep the Soundtrack updated as the flow of new CDs continues.

9.07.2004

>Another annual meeting of seven thousand political scientists has come and gone. One bit of good news: Bound by Recognition has been named co-winner of the First Book Award of the Foundations of Political Theory section of APSA -- along with Alan Keenan's excellent Democracy in Question, which makes this a particular honor and pleasure.

> If anyone can explain the sudden resurgence of interest in Kenneth Patchen's poetry among avant-garde jazz musicians, please do let me know. I'm not complaining: Listen, if you dare, to Sonore, consisting of Peter Brötzmann, Mats Gustafson, and Chicago's own Ken Vandermark, on No One Ever Works Alone (Okka) -- the title is taken from a Patchen poem. The record release show at the Empty Bottle was absolutely stunning.

7.29.2004

> No news is good news. The Links have been updated. Keep an eye on the Soundtrack and the Extracts pages, which will be updated without announcement here. Also be forewarned that I will be spending most of my workdays over the coming year away from the internet, so don't worry if I fail to respond to email as quickly as usual.

4.09.2004

> I'll be on research leave at the Franke Institute for the Humanities during the 2004-2005 academic year.

3.16.2004

> A draft syllabus for next quarter's seminar, Contemporary Theories of Agency, is now available in the Classroom. The Soundtrack is also slightly updated.

2.18.2004

> Where does the time go? Updates to the Soundtrack and Extracts will be coming soonish, but first things first: a new description for next quarter's seminar, Contemporary Theories of Agency, is now available in the Classroom.

11.12.2003

> Draft syllabi for Hegel and Marx and 20th-Century Hegelianisms are now available in the Classroom.

11.03.2003

> Painful as it is to admit, tomato season is decisively over, and it's time the site reflected the changing of the seasons. I'm busy writing two new papers and getting ready for Winter Quarter teaching, so updates will be relatively infrequent. But I'll try at least to keep Soundtrack and Extracts from getting too far behind.

> I'm also pleased to announce that, two months post-publication, Bound by Recognition has not yet gone out of print, so I've kept the image at the top of the page.

> I can't help mentioning that Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude is the first novel I've read in a while that has genuinely transfixed me: I read the last four hundred pages in a day, for whatever that's worth.

8.21.2003

> The tomatoes are ripe! (No, I didn't grow these -- they're from the downtown Chicago farmer's market.)

8.11.2003

> Princeton has sent me an advance copy of Bound by Recognition, and I'm happy to announce that none of the three typos I've found so far is of much consequence. The massive print run is rumbling its way to a retail outlet near you.

7.25.2003

> Who knew people actually came to this site? Some of you complained about the missing animation, so I've replaced it with something, uh, Flashier. Also, the extracts page now has its first entry; expect additions to trickle in regularly.

6.27.2003

> Be the first on your block! Bound by Recognition will be published in mid-August by Princeton University Press, just in time for the American Political Science Association meetings in Philadelphia. "A remarkably sophisticated, learned, and elegant piece of work," according to one of the blurbs. No wonder its Amazon sales ranking is already up to 1,850,492...

> While you're visiting the Princeton University Press site, don't miss Sankar Muthu's brilliant Enlightenment against Empire, also due in mid-August.

> Website redesign. Have a look around, and please report any technical problems or glaring aesthetic lapses. Be forewarned: some of the rooms aren't furnished yet. Also, I'll be traveling in early July, so don't expect any updates for a few weeks.