Reviews Archive
193 reviews
by John Beck, Agata Pyzik, Jason Read, Stella Sandford, Victoria Browne, Lucy Bond, Rolando Pérez, Hammam Aldouri and Borna Radnik / RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015) / ReviewsMcKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene
John Beck
Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, I’m Very Into You: Correspondence 1995–1996
Agata Pyzik
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Metaphysics: For a Post-Structural Anthropology
Jason Read
John Fletcher and Nicholas Ray, eds, Seductions and Enigmas: Laplanche, Theory, Culture
Stella Sandford
Sara Ahmed, Willful Subjects
Victoria …
Beneath the soviets the beach
by John Beck / RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015) / ReviewMcKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene. Verso, London, 2015. xxii + 280 pp., £16.99 hb., 978 1 78168 827 4.
Geological time is long; the lifespan of critical terms is decidedly shorter. The sedimentary record of buzzwords logs the granulated residue of terms that were snuffed out not by intellectual gradualism but a …
192 reviews
by John Kraniauskas, Jeffery R. Webber, Nickolas Lambrianou, Victoria Horne, Sam Cooper, Gerald Moore, Paola Pasquali and Carrie Giunta / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / ReviewsJosé Aricó, Marx and Latin America Álvaro García Linera, Plebeian Power: Collective Action and Indigenous, Working-Class and Popular Identities in Bolivia John Kraniauskas
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organizing Hope Jeffery R. Webber
Michael Wayne, Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique Nickolas Lambrianou
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Universalizing the ayllu
by John Kraniauskas / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / ReviewJosé Aricó, Marx and Latin America, trans. David Broder, Haymarket, Chicago, 2015. lii + 152 pp., £20.00 pb., 978 16 08 46411 1; Álvaro García Linera, Plebeian Power: Collective Action and Indigenous, Working-Class and Popular Identities in Bolivia, selection and introduction by Pablo Stefanoni, trans. Shana Yael Shubs et al., Haymarket, Chicago, 2015. 346 pp., …
Are you now or have you ever been a bourgeois philosopher?
by Nickolas Lambrianou / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / ReviewMichael Wayne, Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique, Bloomsbury, London, 2014. 226 pp., £65.00 hb., 978 1 47251 134 8.
This book intends to proffer a Marxist or, more specifically, ‘anti-bourgeois’ reading of Kant’s critical project and the third Critique in particular, and to draw out the political value of the aesthetic as …
191 Reviews
by Philip Derbyshire, Lauren Wilcox, Howard Eiland, Owen Hatherley, Nardina Kaur, Peter Cornwell and Edmund Hardy / RP 191 (May/Jun 2015) / ReviewsAlejandro Arturo Villega, Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical ExteriorityPhilip Derbyshire
Banu Bargu, Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human WeaponsLauren Wilcox
Giorgio Agamben and Monica Ferrando, The Unspeakable GirlHoward Eiland
Alexei Gan, ConstructivismOwen Hatherley
Jon Ippolito and Richard Rinehart, Re-collection: Art, New Media and Social MemoryPeter Cornwell
Mayanthi L. Fernando, The Republic Unsettled: …
Ariel on the border
by Philip Derbyshire / RP 191 (May/Jun 2015) / ReviewAlejandro Arturo Villega, Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianopolis, 2014. 284 pp., £62.00 hb., £22.99 pb., 978 0 25301 248 7 hb., 978 0 25301 257 9 pb.
Alejandro Villega’s new book is a philosophical interpretation of the philosophy emerging from Latin America since the early nineteenth …
Disappeared
by Owen Hatherley / RP 191 (May/Jun 2015) / ReviewAlexei Gan, Constructivism, trans. Christina Lodder, Editorial Tenov, Barcelona, 2014. 178 pp., €25.00 pb., 978 8 49392 312 9.
One of the implications of this belated translation of Alexei Gan’s 1922 manifesto Constructivism is that it has taken around ninety years for the materials for understanding the Soviet avant-garde as a whole to be available …
190 Reviews
by Jeffery R. Webber, Andrew Stefan Weiner, Konstantinos Kavoulakos, Marina Vishmidt, George Tomlinson, Paul Christopher Gray, Sebastian Truskolaski, John Beck, Sam Cooper, Carl Cederström, Tahseen Kazi and Ben Trott / RP 190 (Mar/Apr 2015) / ReviewsColin Mooers, Imperial Subjects: Citizenship in an Age of Crisis and Empire
Jeffery R. Webber
Gabriel Rockhill, Radical History and the Politics of Art
Andrew Stefan Weiner
Pamela M. Lee, Forgetting the Art World
Marina Vishmidt
Andrew Feenberg, The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukács and the Frankfurt School
Konstantinos Kavoulakos
Fred Moseley and Tony Smith, …
New forms, old problems
by Jeffery R. Webber / RP 190 (Mar/Apr 2015) / ReviewColin Mooers, Imperial Subjects: Citizenship in an Age of Crisis and Empire, Bloomsbury, London, 2014. 152 pp., £14.99 pb., 978 1 44116 493 3.
This is a small book on the inner connections of global capitalism, the imperial system, and the form and content of contemporary liberal citizenship. Through the prism of ‘imperial subjects’ – …
Etherized
by Marina Vishmidt / RP 190 (Mar/Apr 2015) / ReviewPamela M. Lee, Forgetting the Art World, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2012. 248 pp., £27.95 hb., 978 0 26201 773 2.
Contemporary art from its inception has been framed by two mutually constitutive crises: an identity crisis and a legitimacy crisis. The implicit periodization of contemporary art commences roughly in 1970; that is, when Adorno …
189 Reviews
by Howard Caygill, Todd Cronan, Sam Dolbear, Paul Earlie, Philip Derbyshire, Nardina Kaur, Paul Christopher Gray and Howard Feather / RP 189 (Jan/Feb 2015) / ReviewsPier Paolo Pasolini, St Paul: A Screenplay
Howard Caygill
Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge, Brecht, Music and Culture
Todd Cronan
Walter Benjamin, Radio Benjamin
Sam Dolbear
Barbara Cassin, Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism
Paul Earlie
Mark Neocleous, War Power, Police Power
Philip Derbyshire
Leela Gandhi, The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy
Nardina Kaur
Peter …
188 Reviews
by Nathan Brown, Harrison Fluss, Douglas Murphy, Benjamin James Lozano, Raymond Geuss, Jason Read, Suzanne Cataldi Laba and Chris Wilbert / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / ReviewsTristan Garcia Form and Object: A Treatise on Things
Nathan Brown
Knox Peden Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze
Harrison Fluss
Nadir Lahiji ed. Architecture against the Post-Political: Essays in Reclaiming the Critical Project
Nadir Lahiji ed. The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture
Douglas Murphy
Ole Bjerg, Making Money: The Philosophy …
Speculation at the crossroads
by Nathan Brown / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / ReviewTristan Garcia, Form and Object: A Treatise on Things, trans. Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2014. 488 pp., £85.00 hb., £24.99 pb., 978 0 74868 149 5 hb., 978 0 74868 150 1 pb.
In 2011, the publication of The Speculative Turn drew together discrepant realist and materialist philosophical projects …
187 Reviews
by Iain MacKenzie, Nina Power, Steve Howard, Simon Morgan Wortham, Hannah Proctor, Mark Sanders, Lucy Bond and Thomas Klikauer / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / ReviewsÉtienne Balibar, Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness
Iain MacKenzie
Étienne Balibar, Equaliberty: Political Essays
Nina Power
Jennifer Mensch, Kant’s Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy
Steve Howard
Adrian Johnston, Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume 1: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy
Simon Morgan Wortham
Nikolas Rose and …
Socialism or Balibarism
by Iain MacKenzie and Nina Power / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / ReviewIt’s me again
Étienne Balibar, Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness, trans. Warren Montag, edited and introduced by Stella Sandford, Verso, London and New York, 2013. xlvi + 158 pp., £51.98 hb., £14.99 pb., 978 1 78168 135 0 hb., 978 1 78168 134 3 pb.
In recent years there …
The pig’s head
by Simon Morgan Wortham / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / ReviewAdrian Johnston, Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume 1: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy, Northwestern University Press, Evanston IL, 2013. 257 pp., £26.67 pb., 978 0 81012 912 2.
Prologomena to Any Future Materialism is the first volume in a proposed trilogy. As such it seeks to clear the ground …
BP Spotlight: Sylvia Pankhurst & Women and Work
Tate Britain, 16 September 2013– 6 April 2014by Victoria Horne / RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) / Reviews
Dave Beech’s review of Tate Liverpool’s exhibition Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789–2013 (‘A Blockbuster for the Left’, RP 184) assessed the usefulness of the exhibition form for presenting the complex histories of left-wing politics and their intersections within art practice. Two concurrent exhibitions at Tate Britain (16 September 2013–6 April 2014) raised …
Rose-tinted lens
Hannah Arendt, dir. Margarethe von Trotta, Zeitgeist Films, New York, 2012, 113 minutes.by Daniel Nemenyi / RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) / Reviews
Standing before a firing squad, in Margarethe von Trotta’s 1986 biopic Rosa Luxemburg, Luxemburg is taken in flashback to an image of herself as a child refusing to go to bed, intent on seeing the petals of a rose unfurl before her. A gun cracks, but no bullets are fired. It is when death is …
186 Reviews
by Esther Leslie, Stefano Pippa, Tom Eyers, Mark Kelly, Andrew McGettigan, Matthew Charles, Adam Knowles, Richard Braude and Raymond Geuss / RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) / Reviews
Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
– Esther Leslie
Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War
– Stefano Pippa Justin Clemens, Psychoanalysis is an Anti-Philosophy – Tom Eyers Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power – Mark Kelly …
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