A differing shade of green

by Allan Stoekl / RP 179 (May/Jun 2013) / Review

Adrian Parr, The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013. 224 pp., £20.50 hb., 978 0 23115 828 2.

This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others – one …

The poetry and prose of the Russian elections

by Svetlana Stephenson / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / Commentary

Between 10 December 2011, the day of the first mass protest against fraud in the recently held Russian parliamentary elections, and 4 March 2012, the day of the presidential vote, Moscow was a transformed place. The suffocating atmosphere of Putin’s rule was disturbed as if by a sudden breath of fresh air. People …

Keyspace

WikiLeaks and the Assange papers
by Finn Brunton / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) / Commentary

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Theatre and the public

Badiou, Rancière, Virno
by Simon Bayly / RP 157 (Sep/Oct 2009) / Article

Gramsci and the political

From the state as ‘metaphysical event’ to hegemony as ‘philosophical fact’
by Peter Thomas / RP 153 (Jan/Feb 2009) / Article

Exile, war and democracy

An exemplary sequence
by Leon Rozitchner / RP 152 (Nov/Dec 2008) / Article

The question we want to pose is this: how do we open up a field of democratic politics as we emerge from terror and war?

In my exposition I will start where the previous speaker, Feinemann,1 left off as he endorsed the categories that Peron had taken from Clausewitz to move from the discussion of …

Counterterrorism legislation and the US state form

Authoritarian statism, phase 3
by Christos Boukalas / RP 151 (Sep/Oct 2008) / Article

Whatever happened to martial law?

Detainees and the logic of emergency
by Mark Neocleous / RP 143 (May/Jun 2007) / Article

Began teaching the detainee lessons such as stay,come, and bark to elevate his social status up tothat of a dog. Detainee became very agitated.– Guantánamo guard diary entry, 20 December 2002

What is a detainee? The term has been given a new lease of life as a result of the authoritarianism that has followed the …