Posts tagged ‘Gilles Deleuze’
Submarine state
On secrets and leaks
by Daniel Nemenyi / RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015) / Commentary
It’s not answerable to anyone, given it doesn’t exist in law; no minutes are kept; and it’s confidential. No citizen ever knows what is said within… These are decisions of almost life and death, and no member has to answer to anybody.
A Marxist heresy?
Accelerationism and its discontents
by 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 …
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, …
Extra, extra, read all about it!
Contemporary art is postconceptual art
by Antonia Birnbaum / RP 183 (Jan/Feb 2014) / Article
Peter Osborne, Anywhere or Not At All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art, Verso, London and New York, 2013. vi + 282 pp., £60.00 hb., £19.95 pb., 978 1 78168 113 8 hb., 978 1 78168 094 0 pb. Numbers in parentheses in the main text refer to page numbers of this book.
‘The coming together of …
Cannibal metaphysics: Amerindian perspectivism
With an introduction by Peter Skafish
by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Peter Skafish / RP 182 (Nov/Dec 2013) / Article
From anthropology to philosophy: Introduction to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Peter Skafish
Can anthropology be philosophy, and if so, how? For philosophers, the matter has been and often remains quite simple: anthropology’s concern with socio-cultural and historical differences might yield analyses that philosophy can put to use (provided that it condescends to examine them), …
Here comes the new
Deadwood and the historiography of capitalism
by David Cunningham / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Article
We are swept up, are we not, by the large events and forces of our times?
A.W. Merrick, Deadwood, Season 3
Shown across three twelve-episode series that began in 2004, Deadwood is one of several recent television programmes to develop long, serially formatted narratives of a complexity and scale hitherto unusual in its medium. …
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), …
The map is the territory
Dossier: What is German Media Philosophy?
by Bernhard Siegert / RP 169 (Sep/Oct 2011) / Article, Dossier, What is German Media Philosophy?
When I read the expression ‘The map is not theterritory’ for the first time, it occurred to me that it contained the quintessence of Anglo-American philosophy of common sense. The defiant insistence on a logic of representation, a common-sense belief in the evidence of an objective ‘reality’ that is prior to all mental representations or …
Architectural Deleuzism
Neoliberal space, control and the ‘univer-city’
by Douglas Spencer / RP 168 (Jul/Aug 2011) / Article
For many thinkers of the spatiality of contemporary capitalism, the production of all social space tends now to converge upon a single organizational paradigm designed to generate and service mobility, connectivity and flexibility. Networked, landscaped, borderless and reprogrammable, this is a space that functions, within the built environments of business, shopping, education or …
Rhizome (With no return)
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (2)
by Éric Alliez / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
In the invitation to speakers for the conference From Structure to Rhizome, we suggested that talks might set out by re-examining (and hence ‘re-founding’) texts that we qualified – in far too rapid and expeditious a fashion – as ‘founding’. But we did notmake this suggestion without being conscious of the difficulty involved …
Everybody thinks
Deleuze, Descartes and rationalism
by Alberto Toscano / RP 162 (Jul/Aug 2010) / Article
In his 1968 book Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze famously stresses the violent, unnatural and shocking character of thought, counterposing his own anti-representational philosophy of difference to what he depicts as a dogmatic, humanist ‘image of thought’. In his own words: ‘“Everybody” knows very well that in fact men think rarely, …
Body without image: Ernesto Neto’s Anti-Leviathan
Dossier: Undoing the Aesthetic Image
by Éric Alliez / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009) / Article, Dossier, Undoing the Aesthetic Image
[T]he great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last.
– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
The IMAGE-grip is dislocated and a more fundamental element emerges … in short, IMAGE is not the work’s supreme motive or unifying end.
– Hélio Oiticica, Block Experiments
In the immense emptiness and sepulchral …
A very different context
Dossier: Art and Immaterial Labour (with an introduction by Peter Osborne)
by Peter Osborne / RP 149 (May/Jun 2008) / Art and Immaterial Labour, Article, Dossier
Becoming everyone
The politics of sympathy in Deleuze and Rorty
by Tim Clark / RP 147 (Jan/Feb 2008) / Article
Deleuze and cosmopolitanism
by John Sellars / RP 142 (Mar/Apr 2007) / Article
The status of the political within the work of Gilles Deleuze has recently become a topic of contention.1 Two recent books argue the case for two extremes among a range of possible interpretations. At one end of the spectrum, Peter Hallward has argued that Deleuzeʼs personal ethic of deterritorialization and self-destruction is so disengaged with …
An immanent transcendental
Foucault, Kant and critical philosophy
by Keith Robinson / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / Article
138 Reviews
by Steve Edwards, Ian James, Andrew McGettigan, Alberto Toscano, Robin Durie and Christian Kerslake / RP 138 (Jul/Aug 2006) / Reviews
Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism Steve Edwards
Jacques Derrida, On Touching – Jean-Luc Nancy Ian James
Matthias Fritsch, The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida Andrew McGettigan
Michael Scott Christofferson, French Intellectuals against the Left:The Antitotalitarian Moment of the …
Submarine state
On secrets and leaksby Daniel Nemenyi / RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015) / Commentary
It’s not answerable to anyone, given it doesn’t exist in law; no minutes are kept; and it’s confidential. No citizen ever knows what is said within… These are decisions of almost life and death, and no member has to answer to anybody.
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 …
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, …
Extra, extra, read all about it!
Contemporary art is postconceptual artby Antonia Birnbaum / RP 183 (Jan/Feb 2014) / Article
Peter Osborne, Anywhere or Not At All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art, Verso, London and New York, 2013. vi + 282 pp., £60.00 hb., £19.95 pb., 978 1 78168 113 8 hb., 978 1 78168 094 0 pb. Numbers in parentheses in the main text refer to page numbers of this book.
‘The coming together of …
Cannibal metaphysics: Amerindian perspectivism
With an introduction by Peter Skafishby Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Peter Skafish / RP 182 (Nov/Dec 2013) / Article
From anthropology to philosophy: Introduction to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Peter Skafish
Can anthropology be philosophy, and if so, how? For philosophers, the matter has been and often remains quite simple: anthropology’s concern with socio-cultural and historical differences might yield analyses that philosophy can put to use (provided that it condescends to examine them), …
Here comes the new
Deadwood and the historiography of capitalismby David Cunningham / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Article
We are swept up, are we not, by the large events and forces of our times?
A.W. Merrick, Deadwood, Season 3
Shown across three twelve-episode series that began in 2004, Deadwood is one of several recent television programmes to develop long, serially formatted narratives of a complexity and scale hitherto unusual in its medium. …
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), …
The map is the territory
Dossier: What is German Media Philosophy?by Bernhard Siegert / RP 169 (Sep/Oct 2011) / Article, Dossier, What is German Media Philosophy?
When I read the expression ‘The map is not theterritory’ for the first time, it occurred to me that it contained the quintessence of Anglo-American philosophy of common sense. The defiant insistence on a logic of representation, a common-sense belief in the evidence of an objective ‘reality’ that is prior to all mental representations or …
Architectural Deleuzism
Neoliberal space, control and the ‘univer-city’by Douglas Spencer / RP 168 (Jul/Aug 2011) / Article
For many thinkers of the spatiality of contemporary capitalism, the production of all social space tends now to converge upon a single organizational paradigm designed to generate and service mobility, connectivity and flexibility. Networked, landscaped, borderless and reprogrammable, this is a space that functions, within the built environments of business, shopping, education or …
Rhizome (With no return)
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (2)by Éric Alliez / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
In the invitation to speakers for the conference From Structure to Rhizome, we suggested that talks might set out by re-examining (and hence ‘re-founding’) texts that we qualified – in far too rapid and expeditious a fashion – as ‘founding’. But we did notmake this suggestion without being conscious of the difficulty involved …
Everybody thinks
Deleuze, Descartes and rationalismby Alberto Toscano / RP 162 (Jul/Aug 2010) / Article
In his 1968 book Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze famously stresses the violent, unnatural and shocking character of thought, counterposing his own anti-representational philosophy of difference to what he depicts as a dogmatic, humanist ‘image of thought’. In his own words: ‘“Everybody” knows very well that in fact men think rarely, …
Body without image: Ernesto Neto’s Anti-Leviathan
Dossier: Undoing the Aesthetic Imageby Éric Alliez / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009) / Article, Dossier, Undoing the Aesthetic Image
[T]he great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last.
– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
The IMAGE-grip is dislocated and a more fundamental element emerges … in short, IMAGE is not the work’s supreme motive or unifying end.
– Hélio Oiticica, Block Experiments
In the immense emptiness and sepulchral …
A very different context
Dossier: Art and Immaterial Labour (with an introduction by Peter Osborne)by Peter Osborne / RP 149 (May/Jun 2008) / Art and Immaterial Labour, Article, Dossier
Becoming everyone
The politics of sympathy in Deleuze and Rortyby Tim Clark / RP 147 (Jan/Feb 2008) / Article
Deleuze and cosmopolitanism
by John Sellars / RP 142 (Mar/Apr 2007) / ArticleThe status of the political within the work of Gilles Deleuze has recently become a topic of contention.1 Two recent books argue the case for two extremes among a range of possible interpretations. At one end of the spectrum, Peter Hallward has argued that Deleuzeʼs personal ethic of deterritorialization and self-destruction is so disengaged with …
An immanent transcendental
Foucault, Kant and critical philosophyby Keith Robinson / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / Article
138 Reviews
by Steve Edwards, Ian James, Andrew McGettigan, Alberto Toscano, Robin Durie and Christian Kerslake / RP 138 (Jul/Aug 2006) / ReviewsHal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism Steve Edwards
Jacques Derrida, On Touching – Jean-Luc Nancy Ian James
Matthias Fritsch, The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida Andrew McGettigan
Michael Scott Christofferson, French Intellectuals against the Left:The Antitotalitarian Moment of the …
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