Reviews Archive
196 Reviews
by Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Claudia Aradau, Mark Bould, Malise Rosbech, Hammam Aldouri, Stephen Howard, Matthew Hyland, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Thomas Klikauer / RP 196 (Mar/Apr 2016) / ReviewsPaolo Virno, When the Word Becomes Flesh: Language and Human Nature
Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Giorgio Agamben, Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm
Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1972–1973
Michel Foucault, Théories et institutions pénales. Cours au Collège de France
Claudia Aradau
Quentin Meillassoux, Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction
Mark …
Oxymoron
by Jean-Jacques Lecercle / RP 196 (Mar/Apr 2016) / ReviewPaolo Virno, When the Word Becomes Flesh: Language and Human Nature, trans. Giuseppina Mecchia, Semiotext(e), South Pasadena CA, 2015. 264 pp., £12.95 pb., 978 1 58435 094 1.
In Paolo Virno’s previous book, A Grammar of Multitude, grammar – in other words, the philosophy of language – played second fiddle to the multitude – in …
Mediate and aggregate
by Malise Rosbech / RP 196 (Mar/Apr 2016) / ReviewChristine Delphy, Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror, trans. David Broder, Verso, London and New York, 2015. 192 pp., £14.99 pb., 978 1 78168 880 9.
For those who are already acquainted with Christine Delphy’s work, Separate and Dominate is a long-awaited publication. It does not disappoint. Having …
195 Reviews
by Frank Engster, Jasper Bernes, Daniel Spaulding, Anthony Iles, Douglas Spencer, Tor Krever, Nardina Kaur and Stephen Howard / RP 195 (Jan/Feb 2016) / ReviewsREVIEWS
Neil Larsen, Mathias Nilges, Josh Robinson and Nicholas Brown, Marxism and the Critique of Value
Frank Engster
Dave Beech, Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics
Jasper Bernes and Daniel Spaulding
Devin Fore, Realism after Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature
Anthony Iles
Beatriz Preciado, Pornotopia: An Essay …
Truly extraordinary
Review of Dave Beech, Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economicsby Jasper Bernes and Daniel Spaulding / RP 195 (Jan/Feb 2016) / Review
Dave Beech, Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics, Brill, Boston MA, 2015. x + 392 pp., £109.00 hb., 978 9 00428 814 0.
Dave Beech’s fundamental claim is that art is not a standard commodity. Art is, rather, ‘exceptional’, in the sense that its production, circulation and consumption follow …
194 Reviews
by Todd Cronan, Christopher Jones-Thompson, Tobias C. van Veen, Bruce Haddock, Kevin Bruyneel, Daniel Matthews and Rupert Read / RP 194 (Nov/Dec 2015) / ReviewsThe Challenge of Surrealism: The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk
Todd Cronan
Susanne Lettow, ed., Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences
Christopher Jones-Thompson
Gabrielle Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Tobias C. van Veen
Simona Forti, New Demons: Rethinking Power and Evil Today
Bruce Haddock
Joan …
Operation Adorno
by Todd Cronan / RP 194 (Nov/Dec 2015) / ReviewThe Challenge of Surrealism: The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk, ed. and trans. Susan H. Gillespie, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2015. 248 pp., £63.38 hb., £18.16 pb., 978 0 81665 616 5 hb., 978 0 81665 617 2 pb.
At the beginning of a talk on ‘Critical Theory and Surreal Practice’ …
On the menu, but not at the table
by Christopher Jones-Thompson / RP 194 (Nov/Dec 2015) / ReviewSusanne Lettow, ed., Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences, SUNY Press, Albany NY, 2014. vi + 294 pp., £52.00 hb., £19.95 pb., 978 1 43844 949 4 hb., 978 1 43844 948 7 pb.
This collection contributes to an increasingly important issue in philosophy and the history of ideas, …
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 …
Anthropology becoming philosophy
by Jason Read / RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015) / ReviewEduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Metaphysics: For a Post-Structural Anthropology, trans. Peter Skafish, Univocal, Minneapolis, 2014. 229 pp., £20.00 pb., 978 1 93756 121 5.
While the debates and provocations of sixties France in the texts that make up post-structuralism, or, perhaps more accurately, ‘la pensée 68’, continue to influence contemporary philosophy and theory, the …
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 …
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