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Well, I dunno what people mean when they talk about 'theory'. It's all just thought, innit. But anyway, here is a list of some of the best pieces available online, in my humble opinion:
BADIOU. The Badiou archive is here:
http://bulldog.unca.edu/~kjharlan/badiou/
The best piece to start (an interview from 2001) is probably:
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/5/alainbadiou.php
There's a piece on Badiou here (which misspells Beckett in the title, but ignore that):
http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2188&editorial_id=10208
ZIZEK
Author of a fine blog, Adam Kotsko (http://www.adamkotsko.com/weblog) has handily summarised loads of good online links, both by and about Zizek, here:
http://www.adamkotsko.com/zizeklinks.htm
Particularly interesting, I reckon, is this piece that sets out the context for his work:
http://eserver.org/bs/59/zizek.html
Links to his London Review of Books pieces can be found here, which at least have the benefit of proper editing (not always a high priority it seems):
http://www.lrb.co.uk/contribhome.php?get=zize01
DELEUZE
Most of the Deleuze (and Deleuze and Guattari) weblinks are listed here:
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/d-g_html/d-g.html
Lots of Deleuze lectures here, most in French but with a fair few translations:
http://www.webdeleuze.com/php/sommaire.html
DERRIDA
A bit of a weirdly designed site, though with lots of links, is here:
http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/content.html
This interview is pretty good, fairly wide-ranging:
http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/laweekly.html
In it, Derrida answers questions about the film made about him (er, 'Derrida', not much cop really), also about God, and provides an answer to the following question: Why aren't there any female philosophers?
'Because the philosophical discourse is organized in a manner that marginalizes, suppresses and silences women, children, animals and slaves. This is the structure -- it would be stupid to deny it, and consequently there have been no great women philosophers. There have been great women thinkers, but philosophy is one very particular mode of thinking among other modes of thinking. But we're in a historical phase when things like this are changing.'
OTHER THINGS:
One of the most important and most interesting discussions regarding human nature, I think, is Foucault and Chomsky's 1971 debate, here (might not be all of it, but certainly lots of class stuff):
http://www.antonio.homechoice.co.uk/chomfouc2.html
Well, that should do for starters. Hope all the links work and stuff.
BADIOU. The Badiou archive is here:
http://bulldog.unca.edu/~kjharlan/badiou/
The best piece to start (an interview from 2001) is probably:
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/5/alainbadiou.php
There's a piece on Badiou here (which misspells Beckett in the title, but ignore that):
http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2188&editorial_id=10208
ZIZEK
Author of a fine blog, Adam Kotsko (http://www.adamkotsko.com/weblog) has handily summarised loads of good online links, both by and about Zizek, here:
http://www.adamkotsko.com/zizeklinks.htm
Particularly interesting, I reckon, is this piece that sets out the context for his work:
http://eserver.org/bs/59/zizek.html
Links to his London Review of Books pieces can be found here, which at least have the benefit of proper editing (not always a high priority it seems):
http://www.lrb.co.uk/contribhome.php?get=zize01
DELEUZE
Most of the Deleuze (and Deleuze and Guattari) weblinks are listed here:
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/d-g_html/d-g.html
Lots of Deleuze lectures here, most in French but with a fair few translations:
http://www.webdeleuze.com/php/sommaire.html
DERRIDA
A bit of a weirdly designed site, though with lots of links, is here:
http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/content.html
This interview is pretty good, fairly wide-ranging:
http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/laweekly.html
In it, Derrida answers questions about the film made about him (er, 'Derrida', not much cop really), also about God, and provides an answer to the following question: Why aren't there any female philosophers?
'Because the philosophical discourse is organized in a manner that marginalizes, suppresses and silences women, children, animals and slaves. This is the structure -- it would be stupid to deny it, and consequently there have been no great women philosophers. There have been great women thinkers, but philosophy is one very particular mode of thinking among other modes of thinking. But we're in a historical phase when things like this are changing.'
OTHER THINGS:
One of the most important and most interesting discussions regarding human nature, I think, is Foucault and Chomsky's 1971 debate, here (might not be all of it, but certainly lots of class stuff):
http://www.antonio.homechoice.co.uk/chomfouc2.html
Well, that should do for starters. Hope all the links work and stuff.