DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted May 11, 2012 I'm not sure if she'd meet the fame criteria, but American feminist academic and author Susan Gubar has been suffering from advanced ovarian cancer since 2008. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,646 Posted May 11, 2012 Well, s'cuse me starting a splitting-hairs academic argument but...how far advanced was this ovarian cancer in 2008 if she's still alive today? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689 Posted June 20, 2012 Being a former film student, here's an academic I've actually heard of (and read) - auteur theorist Andrew Sarris, dead at 83. Another auteurist and my old professor at Warwick, the estimable VF Perkins, is getting up there in years. Keep well, Victor. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrunoBrimley 86 Posted June 21, 2012 Being a former film student, here's an academic I've actually heard of (and read) - auteur theorist Andrew Sarris, dead at 83. Another auteurist and my old professor at Warwick, the estimable VF Perkins, is getting up there in years. Keep well, Victor. Thank you for remembering Andy. He was an interesting man although sometimes a trifle more opinionated than I might at times have liked. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,646 Posted June 21, 2012 Perkins, as in the guy that wrote Film as Film, is still breathing? Awesome, good spot and clearly obit-worthy when he goes. Be a scramble to be the first with the Death as Death headline, which is surely the way he'd want it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted June 26, 2012 Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees @ 87 Was 'Rouge Dragon Pusuivant in Ordinary' (whew), and provided the heraldic advice to Ian Fleming for OHMSS.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/9354584/Count-Robin-de-la-Lanne-Mirrlees.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted June 26, 2012 I'm not sure if she'd meet the fame criteria, but American feminist academic and author Susan Gubar has been suffering from advanced ovarian cancer since 2008. Her fame/notoriety has certainly reached Australia. Don't know if an academic like her would receive a UK obit but most undergrads in literature courses would know the name. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
angryGreatness 96 Posted August 10, 2012 Canadian-American essayist and humorist David Rakoff has died of cancer at 47. I've never heard of him, but his Wikipedia page is pretty big so I figure I should have. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Robert Mould Posted August 31, 2012 Radical feminist, Shulamith Firestone , 67, has been found dead at her home in New York.... I could have sworn I saw her name on someones DDP list, but apparently no one picked her Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adrian0719 222 Posted September 16, 2012 The Chief Investment Officer of Yale University, David F. Swensen, has been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Flag 84 Posted November 2, 2012 I hear Slavoj Zizek has cancelled his engagements for the next 5 months due to illness Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,527 Posted November 2, 2012 I hear Slavoj Zizek has cancelled his engagements for the next 5 months due to illness You got a link? Twitter and its endless post-grads half-arsedly spouting his maxims brings up nothing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted November 2, 2012 One of my lecturers at uni knew Zizek. Apparently he was afraid of flying due to having a serious heart condition. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted November 2, 2012 Just by coincidence I came across something from him on youtube the other day. One of his lectures was animated... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,527 Posted November 2, 2012 I can only assume Chomsky is terminally ill, I can think of no reason why anyone with any shred of dignity would agree to do this otherwise. (3 minutes 20). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Flag 84 Posted November 2, 2012 I hear Slavoj Zizek has cancelled his engagements for the next 5 months due to illness You got a link? Twitter and its endless post-grads half-arsedly spouting his maxims brings up nothing. Someone on my course was trying to get him to come and talk at Warwick (rather optimistically) and that is what he was told. I'll see if he's got more info Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted November 3, 2012 I can only assume Chomsky is terminally ill, I can think of no reason why anyone with any shred of dignity would agree to do this otherwise. (3 minutes 20). Perhaps Chomsky recognises it's social comment. It's a sort of Korean "Common People", via Chubby Checker's "The Twist" meets techno... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted November 8, 2012 One of my lecturers at uni knew Zizek. Apparently he was afraid of flying due to having a serious heart condition. According to this, he suffers from diabetes too: "A comforting thing happens after exactly three hours in Zizek time. Suddenly his battery seems to have run empty, and the machine stops. Zizek has diabetes. His blood sugar is much too high, he says, or maybe it's much too low. The symptoms seem to be particularly severe at the moment. But Slavoj Zizek would not be Slavoj Zizek if he were to describe such a thing in such banal terms. Instead, he says: "You know, my diabetes has now become a self-perpetuating system, completely independent of external influences! It does what it pleases. And now I have to go to sleep."" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,602 Posted November 28, 2012 One arrogant academic at Oxford has apparently just bumped another off: http://www.abc.net.a...s-death/3772508 "Britain's 900-year-old Oxford University was in shock on Friday after a prominent astrophysicist was found dead and a maths lecturer arrested on suspicion of his murder." The coroner rules this an accidental death. Prof Rawlings suffered a heart attack after being restrained by Dr Sivia when the former attacked the latter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Garn2 34 Posted February 14, 2013 Ronald Dworkin, one of the more prominent modern political philosophers (he got a whole week to himself on my uni's craptacular political theory module), has died aged 81. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted March 20, 2013 Jean Oury is still alive at 89. He trained under Lacan and, in turn, trained Guattari, so he is almost certain to receive a UK obit when he goes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted March 21, 2013 One of my lecturers at uni knew Zizek. Apparently he was afraid of flying due to having a serious heart condition. I was watching some Zizek on YouTube last night (as you do.) He was rubbing his nose constantly in some of the clips like and . I Googled around and a number of people online allege/suspect he has a serious cocaine habit. That, along with his heart condition (he apparently had an actual albeit mild heart attack some years ago) and his obesity mean I am considering him more and more seriously as a contender to go in the next few years. As always with Zizek, he is clearly baiting the interviewer in this article so it is hard to separate the truth from the bullsh*t, but it is here that he mentions his heart attack briefly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted March 21, 2013 One of my lecturers at uni knew Zizek. Apparently he was afraid of flying due to having a serious heart condition. I was watching some Zizek on YouTube last night (as you do.) He was rubbing his nose constantly in some of the clips like and . I Googled around and a number of people online allege/suspect he has a serious cocaine habit. That, along with his heart condition (he apparently had an actual albeit mild heart attack some years ago) and his obesity mean I am considering him more and more seriously as a contender to go in the next few years. As always with Zizek, he is clearly baiting the interviewer in this article so it is hard to separate the truth from the bullsh*t, but he mentions his heart attack briefly. Cocaine socialism? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adrian0719 222 Posted April 6, 2013 Robert V. Remini, renowned 19th century historian and Andrew Jackson biographer at 91. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Garn2 34 Posted May 14, 2013 Kenneth Waltz, doyen of the ever exciting field of international relations theory, has neo-ed his last realism aged 88. Edit: Uh, already posted in the main thread by a guest... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
