...universal human rights are effectively the rights of white male property owners to exchange freely on the market and exploit workers and women, as well as exert political domination.

My aim will be then to argue that we are haunted now by a very material ghost, the Absolute Other of climate change, and that the politics that the encounter with this Absolute Other will force upon us will be one for which our deconstruction of self-identity and Hegelian time has not prepared us. As Cohen argues, our politics of open-ness to the other—of the political and cultural enfranchisement of the other—will be radically re-made, even subsumed into the coming/returning cultural politics of the Absolute Other. The traditions of political thinking that we have inherited rely either on an image of a purposeful collective human self-making, or the radical possibilities made available by the undoing of this sense of uniform purpose. Neither of these is adequate to deal with the limit we must now confront. In turn, this limit cannot be understood as simply natural, requiring the resurrection of even older models of political logic, in which the Other was figured as God or Nature. What returns from the past is what we have made, and must be confronted as a humanisation made radically strange and confronting. It is by way of refusing the reduction of the excess of the Absolute Other, and how we remain defined in relation to it, that we can begin to discuss this new way of thinking.

• Austen and the Brontes - One of three males in the class, and only one of two people who doesn't worship Austen like mad. I'm honestly afraid to be critical of the work, simply because I think that everyone (including the professor) will eat me alive.
• Sex and Relationships - Good so far, and the professor is funny.
• Hebrew and Christian Somethings - It's been cancelled every day so far. It's at 8-9:30...PM! It really sucks, as far as time is concerned.
• Survey of American Lit - Nothing good or bad to say yet, but I'm pretty sure that we're doing a materialist reading of American literature. Cool deal.

They argued that its release would damage America's reputation around the world, could damage CIA morale, and would tip off terrorists regarding American interrogation tactics. "Justice has had the complete document since 2004, and their career prosecutors have reviewed it carefully for legal accountability," said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano. "That's already been done."

Palestinians often use the problematic cliché of the Gaza strip as "the greatest concentration camp in the world". However, in the past year, this designation has come dangerously close to truth. This is the fundamental reality that makes all abstract "prayers for peace" obscene and hypocritical. The state of Israel is clearly engaged in a slow, invisible process, ignored by the media; one day, the world will awake and discover that there is no more Palestinian West Bank, that the land is Palestinian-frei, and that we must accept the fact. The map of the Palestinian West Bank already looks like a fragmented archipelago.