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YouTube Lectures and Interviews

YouTube is a major distraction as well as a great source of information and delight. I just discovered a host of lectures, vintage interviews and excerpts from interviews by philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Theodor Adorno and many others. I'd say, just search for your own personal favourites.

Among other things I found an interesting interview with Claude Lévi-Strauss from 1972 and the Abécédaire that Claire Parnet did with (a reluctant) Gilles Deleuze, reluctant because he didn't believe in television as a medium to convey philosophy.

The European Graduate School now records lectures and puts them online for the whole world to watch. A great initiative. The archive contains lectures by philosophers such as Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek and Manuel de Landa and artists such as Mike Figgis, Peter Greenaway, Lebbeus Woods, Chantal Ackerman and Catherine Breillat. There's also a video of Derrida discussing Deleuze and psychoanalysis.

If only I had the time to actually watch some of this. But there are still so many books to read and DVD's to watch, not to mention papers to write and dance productions to make....