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The central bank of symbolic capital
Bourdieu’s On the Stateby Bob Jessop / RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015) / Article
On the State comprises edited versions of three lecture courses that Pierre Bourdieu delivered between 1989 and 1992 at the Collège de France during his tenure of a research chair in sociology at that institution (1982–2001). [*] Beginning with the well-worn theme of the difficulties of thinking and studying the state, …
Podemos and its critics
by Bécquer Seguín / RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015) / ArticleAlthough the movement that gave rise to it began years, if not decades, ago, Podemos, the political party, was born on 17 January 2014. For some, it was the result of years of organizing following the indignados protests, which occupied Madrid’s Puerta del Sol and other plazas across Spain during the summer of 2011. Others …
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Nature in the limits to capital (and vice versa)
by Jason W. Moore / RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015) / ArticleOf all the varieties of crisis thinking, ecological crisis is perhaps the least developed. It is certainly the least conceptualized. To be sure, there is no scar city of empirically rich analyses of biophysical shifts at every scale. But ecological crisis in its popular usage has been an expansive concept, implicating the widest range of …
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Anti-castism and misplaced nativism
Mapping caste as an aspect of raceby Meena Dhanda / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / Article
From September 2013 to February 2014 I led a project on ‘Caste in Britain’ for the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). [*] It culminated in two research reports. [1] The remit of the project was, first, to review existing socio-legal research on British equality law …
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Chats perchés
Chris Marker’s mimetic, comical and historical prophecyby Gertrud Koch / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / Article, Philosophy of the Essay Film
Jokes between sight and said
Let me start from scratch – with an unspectacular filmic operation that has the minimalistic charm of a one-liner joke. A one-liner joke is a type of verbal joke, one that has it all in one line, just like the joke that Karl Valentin, a Bavarian comedian, once made and …
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The history of cinema, as experience
by Christa Blümlinger / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / Article, Philosophy of the Essay FilmFilm as metahistory
In 1998 at the Cannes Film Festival, Jean-Luc Godard – having completed his Histoire(s) du cinéma project – presented a special reprint of the magazine Trafic. This included an article by the American artist Hollis Frampton. [1] Frampton’s essay, ‘For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses’, …
Art, documentary and the essay film
by Esther Leslie / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / Article, Philosophy of the Essay FilmFilm as document
The moment when Siegfried Kracauer knew that he wanted to write of film as what he terms the ‘Discover of the Marvels of Everyday Life’ is relayed in his introduction to the Theory of Film from 1960. [1] Kracauer recalls watching a film long ago that shows a …
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Futures present
Lite, dark and missingby Peter Osborne / RP 191 (May/Jun 2015) / Article, Future Stasis
‘The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy’, Adorno wrote in a sentence used here as the motto for Verso’s new ‘Futures’ series, from which these three books by Augé, Berardi and Virno form the bulk of the first batch. [*] But what becomes of the essay when …
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A Marxist heresy?
Accelerationism and its discontentsby David Cunningham / RP 191 (May/Jun 2015) / Article, Future Stasis
In his study of the semantics of historical time, Reinhart Koselleck proposes that ‘two specific determinants’ characterize modernity’s ‘new experience of transition: the expected otherness of the future and, associated with it, the alteration in the rhythm of temporal experience: acceleration, by means of which one’s own time is distinguished from what went before’. If …
Political economy of life
Negt and Kluge’s History and Obstinacyby Stewart Martin / RP 190 (Mar/Apr 2015) / Article
The translation of Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge’s Geschichte und Eigensinn, now finally appearing in English in an edited, shortened version under the title History and Obstinacy, introduces an English-reading public to one of the most eccentric and ambitious books to have emerged from the legacy of the Frankfurt School. [*] …
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Reason and revolt
Guy Lardreau’s early voluntarism and its limitsby Peter Hallward / RP 190 (Mar/Apr 2015) / Article
Guy Lardreau has few rivals for the honour of being the most under-appreciated contemporary French philosopher. [1] A student of Louis Althusser at the École Normale in the late 1960s and a flamboyant figure in Maoist intellectual circles before and after 1968, he remains best known for his searing reflections on …
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The day after the insurrection
On First Revolutionary Measuresby Jason E. Smith / RP 189 (Jan/Feb 2015) / Article
It’s been seven years since the cratering of the global economy began in late 2007. While the concerted efforts of the dominant classes and their various client states have enabled, for the time being, the blowing of more bubbles on financial and other markets, a real recovery remains elusive: considerably more than half …
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The Neue Marx-Lektüre
Putting the critique of political economy back into the critique of societyby Riccardo Bellofiore and Tommaso Redolfi Riva / RP 189 (Jan/Feb 2015) / Article
The project to re-examine Marx’s critique of political economy at the end of the 1960s by pupils of Horkheimer and Adorno is nowadays known as the Neue Marx-Lektüre (hereafter NML). This ‘new reading of Marx’, initiated principally by Alfred Schmidt, Hans-Georg Backhaus and Helmut Reichelt, attempted to free Marx from the petrified schemes of Marxist orthodoxy. In this …
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Culture and technics (1965)
by Gilbert Simondon / RP 189 (Jan/Feb 2015) / ArticleThe word culture entails a value judgement, and to a certain extent it relates to an axiological type of content. [*]When used with reference to human culture, its primary meaning is metaphorical, since it looks to the techniques of grain production and gardening for a paradigm of improvement and transformation, a paradigm that might …
Introduction to Simondon
by Andrea Bardin and Giovanni Menegalle / RP 189 (Jan/Feb 2015) / ArticleGilbert Simondon was at the height of his philosophical creativity when, at the end of the 1950s, he wrote his two doctoral theses: ‘Individuation in the Light of the Notions of Form and Information’ and the complementary ‘On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects’. The 1965 essay ‘Culture and Technics’ represents the …
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Freud against Oedipus?
by Philippe Van Haute / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / ArticleThere is a popular story, even among scholars, that tells us that Freudian psychoanalysis was founded at the very moment that Freud wrote to Fliess (in 1897) that he no longer believed in his Neurotica: ‘Ich glaube an meine Neurotica nicht mehr.’ [1] This story reads this declaration as follows: I …
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‘Use-value’
Ontology and semioticsby Bolívar Echeverría / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / Article
The only objective forms of commodities are their use forms, their natural forms.
Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1 (1867)
Does Marx’s discourse have something to say to the current problematization of the foundations of a new practice of politics? [*] Certainly not, if Marx’s dispute with political economy, which forms …
Introduction to Bolívar Echeverría
by Andrés Sáenz De Sicilia and Sandro Brito Rojas / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / ArticleAlthough largely unknown to anglophone readers, Bolívar Echeverría (1941–2010) is one of the most important representatives of Latin American Marxism and critical theory to have emerged in recent decades. [1] He was born in Ecuador, but his main intellectual formation took place in Berlin during the 1960s, where he became involved …
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The persistence of patriarchy
Operation Yewtree and the return to 1970s feminismby Victoria Browne / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / Article
On 30 May 2014 a conference was held in London to discuss the work and legacy of Kate Millett, an American feminist who rose to prominence following the publication of Sexual Politics in 1970, and her appearance on the cover of Time magazine later that year. [1] Elsewhere in London, on …
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Helen Macfarlane
Independent objectby David Black and Ben Watson / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Article
Talking of the destructive nature of egoistic desire, its satisfaction that the other is nothing, Hegel made room for further development, an empirical moment which might surprise those who think German Idealism only ever allowed for abstraction: ‘In this satisfaction, however, experience makes it [the simple ‘I’] aware that the object has its own independence.’ …