Posts tagged ‘Alain Badiou’
The ship sails on
Review of Badiou's Cinema
by Garin V. Dowd / RP 184 (Mar/Apr 2014) / Review
Review | RP184 (Mar/Apr 2014)
Alain Badiou, Cinema, Polity, Cambridge, 2013. 320 pp., £55.00 hb., £17.99 pb., 978 0 74565 567 3 hb., 978 0 74565 568 0 pb.
To call a book simply Cinema is to frame its contents as a contribution to the theorization of cinema, and thus, for a certain readership, …
Our contemporary impotence
Dossier: The Greek Symptom: Debt, Crisis and the Crisis of the Left
by Alain Badiou / RP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013) / Article, Dossier, The Greek Symptom
We have, in this conference, discussed all of the crucial aspects of the situation in Europe and especially in Greece. We have, of course, analysed the great historical structures at stake: the particularly aggressive global politics of contemporary capitalism, the complicit weakness of the various states, and the reactive role played by Europe as it …
Politics in a Tragic Key
by Alberto Toscano / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Article
In memory of Joel Olson (1967-2012)
In the quarter-century or so since the obscure disaster of the Soviet bloc’s collapse, two words have been pinned to that of ‘communism’ with liberal abandon: ‘tragedy’ and ‘transition’. Tragedy, to signify the magnitude of suffering, but not the greatness of the enterprise; the depth of the fall, …
The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process
With introduction by Bruno Bosteels
by Alain Badiou / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Article
After achieving considerable critical acclaim with Almageste and Portulans – two avant-garde novels that promptly caught the attention of his long-time intellectual model Jean-Paul Sartre – Alain Badiou published ‘The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process’, his first work as a philosopher.1 Written in 1965 as part of a seminar presented under the aegis of his …
An introduction to Alain Badiou’s ‘The autonomy of the aesthetic process’
by Bruno Bosteels / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Article
See Alain Badiou, ‘The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process’ (in the same issue)
The Two Names of Communism
by John Roberts / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / Article
Toujours avec l’espoir de rencontrer la mer, lis voyageaient sans pain, sans batons et sans urnes, Mordant au citron d’or de l’ideal amer. Stephane Mallarme, 18621
The recent explosion of writing on the communist idea, ideal and ‘communization’ recovers or expands a moment in the early to mid-1980s when French political theory and philosophy (in …
More than everything
Žižek's Badiouian Hegel
by Peter Osborne / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / Article
There are philosophical books, minor classics even, which are widely known and referred to, although no one has actually read them page by page… a nice example of interpassivity, where some figure of the Other is supposed to do the reading for us. Slavoj Žižek1
Allow me to be that figure (for now anyway), …
Flickers
by Philip Derbyshire / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / Review
Bruno Bosteels, Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis and Religion in Times of Terror, Verso, London and New York, 2012. 326 pp., £19.99 pb., 978 1 84467 755 9.
Bruno Bosteels is probably best known to readers of Radical Philosophy as translator of and commentator on the work of Alain Badiou …
176 Reviews
Books Reviewed:Benoît Peeters, Derrida: A BiographySimon Critchley, The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political TheologyClaudia Aradau and Rens Van Munster, Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the UnknownStuart Price, Worst Case Scenario? Governance, Mediation and the Security RegimeMartin Breaugh, L’Expérience PlébéienneTina Chanter, Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of SlaveryStella Sandford, Plato and SexAlain Badiou, with Nicolas Truong, In Praise of LoveYehoshua Yakhot, The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR: The 1920s & 1930sJay Lampert, Simultaneity and Delay: A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time
by David Cunningham, David van Dusen, Peter Adey, Bruno Dias, Christine Battersby, Nicola Foster, Stella Sandford, Emanuele Saccarelli and Martijn Boven / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / Reviews
Reviewing Rancière. Or, the persistence of discrepancies
Dossier: The Althusser–Rancière Controversy
by Bruno Bosteels / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Article, Dossier, The Althusser–Rancière Controversy
In the nearly four decades since its original publication, Althusser’s Lesson has acquired a certain mythical aura as the dark precursor of things to come. Even with the wealth of translations of Jacques Rancière’s work that have been published at an increasingly feverish pace over the past few years in the wake of the …
Flaubert’s parrot
by David Cunningham / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Review
Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Literature, trans. Julie Rose, Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2011. 215 pp., £55.00 hb., £17.99 pb., 978 0 74564 531 5 hb., 978 0 74564 530 8 pb.
David Cunningham
The ongoing role played by French philosophy in underwriting the contemporaneity of anglophone theory has entailed, since …
156 Reviews
by Alberto Toscano, Tiziana Terranova, Andrew Goffey, Alison Stone, Mick Smith, Timothy Chambers, Bojana Cvejic, Anindya Bhattacharyya and Craig Brandist / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009) / Reviews
Stefan Jonsson, A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions Alberto Toscano
Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: A Theory of Networks Tiziana Terranova
Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain? Andrew Goffey
Lisa Baraitser, Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption Alison Stone
Damian F. White, Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal Mick …
‘On the Idea of Communism’, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, 13–15 March 2009
by Matthew Charles / RP 155 (May/Jun 2009) / Conference Report
Gramsci and the political
From the state as ‘metaphysical event’ to hegemony as ‘philosophical fact’
by Peter Thomas / RP 153 (Jan/Feb 2009) / Article
The Substance of Thought, Cornell University, NY, 10–12 April 2008
by Nathan Brown / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008) / Conference Report
149 Reviews
by Knox Peden, Peter Hallward, Robert Spencer, Steve Edwards, Gail Day and Jean-Paul Martinon / RP 149 (May/Jun 2008) / Reviews
Julian Bourg, From Revolution to Ethics: May ’68 and Contemporary French Thought Knox Peden
Alain Badiou, De Quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom? Circonstances Peter Hallward
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Robert Spencer
John Roberts, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade Steve Edwards
Matthew Beaumont, …
131 Reviews
by Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Drew Milne, Stephen Frosh, Alastair Morgan and Martyn Everett / RP 131 (May/Jun 2005) / Reviews
Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics Stewart Martin
Jacques Rancière, The Philosopher and His Poor Mark Neocleous
Andrew Feenberg, Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History Drew Milne
Eli Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis Stephen Frosh
…
The ship sails on
Review of Badiou's Cinemaby Garin V. Dowd / RP 184 (Mar/Apr 2014) / Review
Review | RP184 (Mar/Apr 2014)
Alain Badiou, Cinema, Polity, Cambridge, 2013. 320 pp., £55.00 hb., £17.99 pb., 978 0 74565 567 3 hb., 978 0 74565 568 0 pb.
To call a book simply Cinema is to frame its contents as a contribution to the theorization of cinema, and thus, for a certain readership, …
Our contemporary impotence
Dossier: The Greek Symptom: Debt, Crisis and the Crisis of the Leftby Alain Badiou / RP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013) / Article, Dossier, The Greek Symptom
We have, in this conference, discussed all of the crucial aspects of the situation in Europe and especially in Greece. We have, of course, analysed the great historical structures at stake: the particularly aggressive global politics of contemporary capitalism, the complicit weakness of the various states, and the reactive role played by Europe as it …
Politics in a Tragic Key
by Alberto Toscano / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / ArticleIn memory of Joel Olson (1967-2012)
In the quarter-century or so since the obscure disaster of the Soviet bloc’s collapse, two words have been pinned to that of ‘communism’ with liberal abandon: ‘tragedy’ and ‘transition’. Tragedy, to signify the magnitude of suffering, but not the greatness of the enterprise; the depth of the fall, …
The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process
With introduction by Bruno Bosteelsby Alain Badiou / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Article
After achieving considerable critical acclaim with Almageste and Portulans – two avant-garde novels that promptly caught the attention of his long-time intellectual model Jean-Paul Sartre – Alain Badiou published ‘The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process’, his first work as a philosopher.1 Written in 1965 as part of a seminar presented under the aegis of his …
An introduction to Alain Badiou’s ‘The autonomy of the aesthetic process’
by Bruno Bosteels / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / ArticleSee Alain Badiou, ‘The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process’ (in the same issue)
The Two Names of Communism
by John Roberts / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / ArticleToujours avec l’espoir de rencontrer la mer, lis voyageaient sans pain, sans batons et sans urnes, Mordant au citron d’or de l’ideal amer. Stephane Mallarme, 18621
The recent explosion of writing on the communist idea, ideal and ‘communization’ recovers or expands a moment in the early to mid-1980s when French political theory and philosophy (in …
More than everything
Žižek's Badiouian Hegelby Peter Osborne / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / Article
There are philosophical books, minor classics even, which are widely known and referred to, although no one has actually read them page by page… a nice example of interpassivity, where some figure of the Other is supposed to do the reading for us. Slavoj Žižek1
Allow me to be that figure (for now anyway), …
Flickers
by Philip Derbyshire / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / ReviewBruno Bosteels, Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis and Religion in Times of Terror, Verso, London and New York, 2012. 326 pp., £19.99 pb., 978 1 84467 755 9.
Bruno Bosteels is probably best known to readers of Radical Philosophy as translator of and commentator on the work of Alain Badiou …
176 Reviews
Books Reviewed:Benoît Peeters, Derrida: A BiographySimon Critchley, The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political TheologyClaudia Aradau and Rens Van Munster, Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the UnknownStuart Price, Worst Case Scenario? Governance, Mediation and the Security RegimeMartin Breaugh, L’Expérience PlébéienneTina Chanter, Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of SlaveryStella Sandford, Plato and SexAlain Badiou, with Nicolas Truong, In Praise of LoveYehoshua Yakhot, The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR: The 1920s & 1930sJay Lampert, Simultaneity and Delay: A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Timeby David Cunningham, David van Dusen, Peter Adey, Bruno Dias, Christine Battersby, Nicola Foster, Stella Sandford, Emanuele Saccarelli and Martijn Boven / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / Reviews
Reviewing Rancière. Or, the persistence of discrepancies
Dossier: The Althusser–Rancière Controversyby Bruno Bosteels / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Article, Dossier, The Althusser–Rancière Controversy
In the nearly four decades since its original publication, Althusser’s Lesson has acquired a certain mythical aura as the dark precursor of things to come. Even with the wealth of translations of Jacques Rancière’s work that have been published at an increasingly feverish pace over the past few years in the wake of the …
Flaubert’s parrot
by David Cunningham / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / ReviewJacques Rancière, The Politics of Literature, trans. Julie Rose, Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2011. 215 pp., £55.00 hb., £17.99 pb., 978 0 74564 531 5 hb., 978 0 74564 530 8 pb.
David Cunningham
The ongoing role played by French philosophy in underwriting the contemporaneity of anglophone theory has entailed, since …
156 Reviews
by Alberto Toscano, Tiziana Terranova, Andrew Goffey, Alison Stone, Mick Smith, Timothy Chambers, Bojana Cvejic, Anindya Bhattacharyya and Craig Brandist / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009) / ReviewsStefan Jonsson, A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions Alberto Toscano
Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: A Theory of Networks Tiziana Terranova
Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain? Andrew Goffey
Lisa Baraitser, Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption Alison Stone
Damian F. White, Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal Mick …
‘On the Idea of Communism’, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, 13–15 March 2009
by Matthew Charles / RP 155 (May/Jun 2009) / Conference ReportGramsci and the political
From the state as ‘metaphysical event’ to hegemony as ‘philosophical fact’by Peter Thomas / RP 153 (Jan/Feb 2009) / Article
The Substance of Thought, Cornell University, NY, 10–12 April 2008
by Nathan Brown / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008) / Conference Report149 Reviews
by Knox Peden, Peter Hallward, Robert Spencer, Steve Edwards, Gail Day and Jean-Paul Martinon / RP 149 (May/Jun 2008) / ReviewsJulian Bourg, From Revolution to Ethics: May ’68 and Contemporary French Thought Knox Peden
Alain Badiou, De Quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom? Circonstances Peter Hallward
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Robert Spencer
John Roberts, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade Steve Edwards
Matthew Beaumont, …
131 Reviews
by Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Drew Milne, Stephen Frosh, Alastair Morgan and Martyn Everett / RP 131 (May/Jun 2005) / ReviewsJacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics Stewart Martin
Jacques Rancière, The Philosopher and His Poor Mark Neocleous
Andrew Feenberg, Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History Drew Milne
Eli Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis Stephen Frosh
…