22 March 2009
don't let pli fold! (sorry....)
It's hard to keep a non-arms-dealer-funded journal going, and Pli, a seriously important publication for Continental Philosophy of all kinds, has been going for 19 volumes. It's having a hard time at the moment, however, so if anyone could spare some money for back issues and/or get their institution to order Pli for the library, you'll be remembered forever in some kind of glorious materialist non-heaven.
Topics for currently available back issues:
5: The Divine Sade
6: Responsibilities of Deconstruction
14: Spinoza: Desire and Power
15: Lives of the Real: Bergsonian Perspectives
16: Diagrams of Sensation: Deleuze and Aesthetics
17: Ultrapolitics
18: Superior Empiricism
19: Sense and Nonsense
Many of the issues that are out of print are available online, and amount to a significant resource, featuring work by/translations of: Laruelle, Nancy, Brassier, Toscano, Sallis, Andrew Benjamin, Nietzsche, Stengers, Keith Ansell Pearson, Ian Hamilton Grant, Lacoue-Labarthe, Dastur, Badiou, Elie During, Eric Alliez, Zizek, Deleuze, Virno, Bruno Bosteels, Foucault, Lorenzo Chiesa, Maurizio Lazzarato, Warren Montag, Pier Aldo Rovatti and a whole host of smart (yet humble) lesser stars...You can email Pli here. One thing to note about Pli is its splendid design - sleek, dark and genuinely exciting. If it is unlike most academic journals, it is so in the best possible way.
