SIMON CRITCHLEY
Other Work
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"Shakespeare Foreshadowed Our Current Malaise" appears in The New York Times (06/23/2022)
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Paperback of The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments (2/2/2022)
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"Punk's raptures are mystical. Learning to Eat Time with One's Ears" appears in Diaphanes (08/17/2021)
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The Institute of Art and Ideas republishes a selection from Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (06/30/2021)
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Crispin Sartwell and John Kaag review The Stone Reader for LA Review of Books (06/25/2021)
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Literary Hub publishes excerpt from Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts (04/27/2021) [Chinese translation available here]
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Academic Influence ranks Simon as one of the most influential philosophers today (02/02/2021)
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The Chinese translation of Simon's article on Covid-19 ("Our fear, our trembling our strength in the time of Coronavirus") appears on the public account Scholar on WeChat
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Five years on from David Bowie's death, Simon asks in The Stone "What Would David Bowie Do?" (01/09/2021)
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Arthur W. Frank discuss the implications of Simon's thought for bioethics and health-care practice in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Autumn 2020)
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Lo Sguardo – rivista di filosofia publishes a translation of "Athens in Pieces: The Art of Memory" (Atene in frammenti: l'arte della memoria)
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Simon discusses Coronavirus, along with other intellectuals, in The Los Angeles Review of Books (04/14/2020)
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Simon discusses Coronavirus and philosophizing as learning to die in The Stone (04/11/2020)
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Public Seminar republished Simon's "Black Socrates" (02/25/2020)
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Daniel Gamper discusses 'The Football Player as a Work of Art' in The New Barcelona Post (12/10/2018)
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'Lo que perder una Champions contra el Madrid me enseñó sobre la vida; from El Mondo (10/2/2018)
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'Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader' from Newstalk (9/3/2018)
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'Revelation of a Liverpool Soccer Fan' from The New York Times (8/15/2018)
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Sam Anderson, from The New York Times, ponders why ‘Each football game is a repetition of the last game and anticipates the repetition of the next' (7/5/2018)
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An extract from Simon's new book, What We Think About When We Think About Football, from Dagbladet (6/30/2018)
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In light of Simon's What We Think About When We Think About Football, Roar Eskild Jacobsen asks 'what do we think of without critical sense?' (6/30/2018)
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Susanne Hedemann Hiorth reads a patrilineal legacy in Critchley's Liverpool affiliation: from father to son, and back again (6/30/2018)
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Leo Robson's New Yorker account of How We Watch Soccer Now mentions Simon's philosophy of football (6/24/2018)
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Simon on the cover of Politiken (6/22/2018)
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Kultur Politiken on Simon's philosophy of football (6/19/2018)
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Simon recounts an anecdote–or parable–in Artforum about a debate with two theologians and the limits of secularism. His attempt was to say as little as possible. (6/1/2017)
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The New Yorker covers Simon Critchley's event at the Tilt Kids Festival at the Brooklyn Public Library. (April 24, 2017)
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A write-up in The Independent about the Brooklyn Public Library's Night of Philosophy includes Critchley's talk about tragedy. (01/03/2017)
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A Greek newspaper covers Critchley's work. (10/23/2016)
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The second incarnation of The School of Death at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, explores the relationship between death and the examined life. Critchley co-organizes and participates. (10/2016)
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Simon Critchley participates in a tribute to Prince at The New School. (09/23/2016)
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Simon Critchley's series on Heidegger's Being and Time that appeared in The Guardian was translated into Turkish for Vira Verita: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight. (2016)
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Critchley answers The Atlantic's question, What Concept Most Needs a Word in the English Language? (10/2016)
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At Yes Magazine, Critchley comments on the humorous aspects of the Republican National Convention. (07/21/2016)
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Critchley writes about the narcissism of theatre at Naked Punch. (06/17/2016)
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At The New York Review of Books, Critchley discusses Brexit and England's loss at the Euro Cup. (06/28/2016)
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Critchley's piece on Brexit appears at Die Zeit. (06/09/2106)
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"The Dangers of Certainty: A Lesson of Auschwitz" appears in La Maleta. (05/03/2016)
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"Hegel on Hamlet," from Stay, Illusion! appears at the Spiked Review. (04/2016)
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An excerpt from On Bowie appears at Drowned in Sound. (04/20/2016)
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Critchley's lists his 10 favorite books at The New York Times Magazine. (03/25/16)
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The Odyssey reviews a tribute event to David Bowie at The New School. (02/17/2016)
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Critchley shares a "breakthrough moment" at New York Magazine. (01/12/2016)
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Critchley wrote a piece for The Stone called "Nothing Remains: David Bowie's Vision of Love." (01/11/2016)
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An excerpt from Simon Critchley's Bowie appears in The New Republic. (01/11/2016)
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"Philosophical Eros," a paper by Critchley on Plato's dialogue Phaedrus.
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An excerpt from Memory Theatre appears on Lit Hub. (11/18/2015)
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Critchley discusses poet Anne Carson's work at Lipstick Studios. (04/29/15)
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Suicide: A Morbid Cloud Of Facts. An excerpt from Critchley's new book, Suicide, at Thought Catalog. (06/24/2015)
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All-Nighter. Review in the New Yorker of the Night of Philosophy, New York City, 2015. (05/11/2015)
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A Night of Philosophy in NYC, 04-24-2015 7 P.M. To 7 A.M. Review in the Brooklyn Rail of the Night of Philosophy, New York City, 2015. (05/06/2015)
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Wishful Thinking. Review in Artforum of the Night of Philosophy, New York City, 2015. (04/30/2015)
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At All-Night Philosophy Event, Physics, Logic and Snoring. Review in the Wall Street Journal of the Night of Philosophy, New York City, 2015. (04/26/2015)
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The Case for Paying Ransoms, published on the New York Review of Books blog. (11/14/2014)
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'My Life Began with David Bowie'. Vice.com published an excerpt from BOWIE (09/24/2014)
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An article in Forbes Magazine, 'How To Lead Like Bowie: Thoughts On The 'David Bowie Is' Exhibition' cites Critchley's Bowie (09/18/2014)
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The Greek newspaper H KAΘHMEPINH covers Simon Critchley's TEDxKalamata talk, 'What lessons can we draw from antiquity?' (Engish version here.) on June 7, 2014 at the theater at ancient Messene (07/20/2014)
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Baseball or Soccer? David Brooks responds in the NYTimes to Critchley's 'The Ninety-Minute Anxiety Dream' article from the New York Review of Books. (07/10/2014)
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'The Ninety-Minute Anxiety Dream', posted on the New York Review of Books blog. (06/22/2014)
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'Why There Is No Such Thing as a Bad World Cup: A philosopher's theory of soccer fandom', posted on The New Republic (06/11/2014)
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Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness, from PBS's Digital Studios' 'Blank on Blank', selected from his discussion with Simon Critchley was posted on the Washington Post's Comic Riffs Animation of the Day. (06/04/2014)
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'Dar fe de la Política', an interview with Simon Critchley by Ramón del Castillo was published in the 22nd issue of the Spanish journal Minerva. (2014)
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'It Nothing Must', article in Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies by Jamieson Webster and Simon Critchley. (Spring 2014)
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"Working Class Ballet" published on The Far Post: Global Soccer Dispatches (on Sports Illustrated: Roads and Kingdoms)
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аилd-лаnг-ѕynє. An Evening Sometime in the near Future, a dispatch from Moscow in the LA Review of Books (12/20/2013). It was featured on Occupywallst.org Theory Thursday. A response was published in Communists in Situ on 12/27/2013.
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On October 3rd 2013, Simon Critchley participated in a panel discussion at the Park Ave. Armory on the production Everything is Going According to Plan (Massive Attack V Adam Curtis)
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'John Gray's Godless Mysticism', a review by Critchley of John Gray's The Silence of Animals in Los Angeles Review of Books (06/02/13)
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Tough Love: A response to Richard J. Bernstein's "Is Politics 'Practicable' without Religion?"
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Philip Seymour Hoffman + Simon Critchley in conversation at the Rubin Museum (12/17/2012)
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Review in Greek News Online of the Truth and Lies series at BAM, Searching for Truth with Simon Critchley
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Feature article in Art Monthly The Ethics of Discomfort, John Douglas Millar on art and politics according to Simon Critchley (03/2012)
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Dick, Un filosofo in Garager article on Phillip K. Dick in Corriere Della Sera
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Review of the debate on faith with Cornell West at BAM (02/09/2012)
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Critchley authored the Readings column of 02/26/2012 in Believer Magazine
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April of 2012 Finnish political publication Ulkopolitiikka published Ylimaallinen mammona, a translation of Simon
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Simon Critchley on Crisis and Death (ΑΡΧΕΙΟ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ 25.11.2010 Σάιμον Κρίτσλεϊ, περί κρίσης και θανάτου) in the Greek newspaper H KAΘHMEPINH (11/25/2010)
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"Violent Thoughts about Slavoj Zizek" appears at Naked Punch. (10/21/2009)
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Critchley's thoughts on Beckett's Film appear on Naked Punch. (09/04/2009)
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A discussion between Alain Badiou and Simon Critchley at Labyrinth Books, New York City March 6, 2006.
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Critchley has had essays published in Harper's magazine, including a critique of then President-Elect Barack Obama.
Critchley and Simmons
Articles on Simon Critchley's suicide note writing class at the Kitchen in Manhattan
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Swanky NYC prep school teacher directs students to write their own suicide notes, Jessica Barrish inspired by Simon Critchley's suicide note writing class attempts the same excercise with high school students, article posted on the Daily Caller.
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New York professor offers suicide note writing class, review of Critchley's School of Death pop up class on suicide note writing sponsored by Cabinet Magazine and Family Business exhibition space.
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Secrets of Great Suicide Notes: Both Love and Hate, abc News article on Critchley's School of Death pop up class on suicide note writing sponsored by Cabinet Magazine and Family Business exhibition space.
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A Writing Class Focused on Goodbyes, a New York Times article on Critchley's School of Death pop up class on suicide note writing sponsored by Cabinet Magazine and Family Business exhibition space.
The Critchley–Žižek debate
The timeline or chronology of the Critchley–Žižek debate is usefully outlined by Critchley in a footnote to his Naked Punch article "Violent Thoughts on Slavoj Žižek":
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Žižek’s piece, ‘Resistance is Surrender’ (London Review of Books, 15 November 2007), which criticized the (at that time) recent appearance of Critchley's Infinitely Demanding.
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'Resistance is Surrender' in turn occasioned some responses from readers including T.J. Clark and David Graeber, to which Žižek replied by accusing Graeber and Critchley of ‘the highest form of corruption’ (LRB, 24 January 2008).
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Žižek’s critique was then republished in Harper's Magazine (February 2008), to which Critchley replied in a later issue (May 2008).
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An extended version of Žižek's critique of Critchley's position appeared in Žižek's book In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso, London and New York, 2008), pp. 337–350. Critchley says he will "respond to Zizek’s criticisms of my ethical position and interpretation of Lacan on a separate occasion".
Bibliography of the Critchley–Žižek debate:
Critchley: Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (Verso, London & New York, 2007; ISBN 1-84467-121-6).
Žižek: Resistance Is Surrender in the London Review of Books.
T.J. Clark's and David Graeber's Responses in the London Review of Books.
Žižek's Response a letter in the London Review of Books.
Žižek's In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso, London & New York, 2008), pp. 337–350.
Critchley: "Thoughts on Slavoj Zizek" in Naked Punch'
"The Violent State" article by Robert Young on the Critchley–Žižek Debate in Naked Punch
"Crypto-Schmittianism" This article by Simon Critchley, published in 2005, offers a useful preamble to Critchley's position(s)
International Necronautical Society
The International Society Necronautical has been nourished by the faded avant-garde movements of the last century, whether artistic, cultural or political. A German volume of texts Wir sind alle Nekronauten, immer schon gathers a selection of official communications from the INS from 1999 to 2010; meticulously documenting their manifestos, reports, statements, meetings, and trials from 1999 onwards. “We are sometimes asked: How do I join? How does one become a necronaut? Wrong question. As Paragraph Three, lines five and six of the INS’s First Manifesto make clear, willfully pilfering and re-using the tired language of deconstruction, ‘We are all necronauts, always, already.’ Our mission is to disseminate that fact: not as conceptual knowledge but rather in the way that Molly Bloom fills her husband’s mouth with seedcake, then repeats that moment, with a silent Yes.” An English volume from the INS, The Mattering of Matter, Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society was published by Sternberg Press in October 2012. In the October 2014 issue of Art Forum the INS published the Declartion on Digital Capitalism.
Trivia
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Page 6 of the New York Post mentioned Courtney Love's appearance at the book launch for Critchley and Jamieson's The Hamlet Doctrine under the title All about love for Courtney
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Press Releases of the Dead Throughout October 2009 media types around the country will receive cardboard tombstones cutouts to celebrate the release of The Book of Dead Philosophers.
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The Dead Philosophers' Limbo is Susie Burpee's twelve-hour dance to the life of ideas and the death of philosophers as told by the living philosopher Simon Critchley in his book, The Book of Dead Philosophers.
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Askmelissa.com How do you applaud the launch of Simon Critchley’s Book of Dead Philosophers? With a séance, of course! At least that’s how the Accompanied Literary Society chose to celebrate at an out-of-this-world party at Bobo.
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Under the name of Critchley & Simmons, Critchley has produced a CD called Humiliation (2004) and a series of short films. This project was launched in an event at the Sydney Opera House in August 2004.
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Critchley gave the name The Bleach Boys to a Hitchin based band previously known as The Fur Coughs.
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Critchley himself played guitar in a number of North Hertfordshire bands including The Good Blokes and Social Class 5.
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Critchley is a devotee of football, and has since a young child been a keen supporter of Liverpool FC. He has taken this lifelong love into his philosophical work, giving a lecture in Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, in May 2009 on French football star Zinedine Zidane, ”A puppet or a god? On Zidane”, based on Douglas Gordon and Phillipe Parreno's film Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait from 2006.
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In 2011, Critchley co-directed (with Brad Evans) Ten Years of Terror in recognition of the ten-year anniversary of September 11. Ten Years of Terror examines the theoretical, empirical, and aesthetic dimensions of violence and the ensuing state of terror it produces. This series of reflections by key canonical thinkers such as Saskia Sassen, Michael Hardt, Noam Chomsky, Zygmunt Bauman, and others closely examines the enactment and ramifications of violence in our modern times. The film was shown at the Guggenheim in September 2011.
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The Last Word, Seven-Hour Finale: Critchley co-hosted the closing of the exhibit Maurizio Cattelan: All at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday January 21, 2012.