The New Year brought resolutions to some of you, while it also brought new books to Graduate Services for some of you to use. What’s more, these books have a shelf life longer than most resolutions, as they are usually much harder to break. I mean, just look around Graduate Services. You don’t see many broken books lying around do you. There might be books about breaks, gaps, and various lacunae. But not many broken books. No, not very many broken books at all. And speaking of books, some good ones arrived while most students were still enjoying their winter break. The Baudrillard Dictionary came in holding hands with the new revised Deleuze Dictionary, and both were being escorted by a few new Foucault books. Poor little Les Annees d’Hiver, 1980-1985 by Felix Guattari followed hurriedly behind in his ill fitting English attire wondering what that damn Deleuze Dictionary had to say about him. Books by Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Ranciere strutted along in their au naturel French laughing a laugh no one could understand, while the volumes of animal poems by Ted Hughes ran wild around Allen Ginsberg’s If Not Forever: A Letter to Jack Kerouac, which Wendell Berry’s WIndow Poems pleaded with to be a bit more transparent as an animal poem nudged his nose between his pages. Yes, it was a crazy January here in Graduate Services and many other books had a good time too. Too many to talk about them all right now though. Let’s just say The Empire of Signs might or might not have played a part in The Original Accident. Oh, and by the way, the Foucault books seemed to really like their ill fitting attire. Enjoy.
Second Manifeste Pour La Philosophie by Alain Badiou
Empire Of Signs by Roland Barthes
Window Poems by Wendell Berry
The Baudrillard Dictionary edited by Richard G. Smith
The Deleuze Dictionary (Revised Edition) edited by Adrian Parr
The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909 by Selim Deringil
The Courage of Truth (The Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the College de France, 1983-1984 by Michel Foucault
Manet and the Object of Painting by Michel Foucault
Plays 3: The Firstborn; The Boy With A Cat; A Phoenix Too Frequent; Thor, With Angels; A Sleep Of Prisoners; Caedmon Construed; and A Ringing Of Bells by Christopher Fry
The Train Driver by Athol Fugard
If Not Forever: A Letter to Jack Kerouac by Allen Ginsberg
Fleck: A Verse Comedy by Alasdair Gray
Les Annees d’Hiver, 1980-1985 by Felix Guattari
Collected Animal Poems volumes 1-4 by Ted Hughes
A Chancer by James Kelman
Hardie and Baird & Other Plays by James Kelman
Sur le Commerce des Pensees: Du Livre et de la Librairie by Jean-Luc Nancy
Tombe de Sommeil by Jean-Luc Nancy
Verite de la Democratie by Jean-Luc Nancy
The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War by Jean-Yves Le Naour
Small Avalanches and Other Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Charles Oslon At Goddard College, April 12-14, 1962 edited by Kyle Schlesinger
L’inconscient Esthetique by Jacques Ranciere
Le Spectateur Emancipe by Jacques Ranciere
The Original Accident by Paul Virilio
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren volume 5: Backward Glances and New Visions, 1969-1979 edited by Randy Hendricks and James A. Perkins