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The irony of anatomy

Basquiat’s poetics of black positionality
by / RP 195 (Jan/Feb 2016) / Article

for Tanzeen Doha

Isabelle Graw Should I come to New York before I write the article on you?

Jean-Michel Basquiat What would you do if the artist you were writing about were dead?

Graw I would do as much research as possible, get together all the available information…

Basquiat Then just do it like that. Pretend I’m dead…

There …


188 Reviews

by , , , , , , and / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / Reviews

Tristan 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 / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / Review

Tristan 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 …


Occupy Oakland

by / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / News

We live in a time when tents have become the singular weapon of the people which power cannot tolerate, and against which it does not know how to defend itself. The bureaucrats are in shambles; the ‘city’ and its ‘police’ are at each other’s throats; middling reformists have no idea where to position …


NEWS: Occupy

by / 2011 / Web Content

Occupy Oakland

Nathan Brown

We live in a time when tents have become the singular weapon of the people which power cannot tolerate, and against which it does not know how to defend itself. The bureaucrats are in shambles; the ‘city’ and its ‘police’ are at each other’s throats; middling reformists have no idea where …


Red years: Althusser’s lesson, Rancière’s error and the real movement of history

Dossier: The Althusser–Rancière Controversy


by / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Article, Dossier, The Althusser–Rancière Controversy

The dissolution of the organizational forms which are created by the movement, and which disappear when the movement ends, does not reflect the weakness of the movement, but rather its strength. The time of false battles is over. The only conflict that appears real is the one that leads to the destruction of …


155 Reviews

by , , , , and / RP 155 (May/Jun 2009) / Reviews

Patrick Barrett, Daniel Chavez and César Rodríguez-Garavito, eds, The New Latin American Left: Utopia Reborn Jon Beasley-Murray

Dayan Jayatilleka, Fidel’s Ethics of Violence: The Moral Dimension of the Political Thought of Fidel Castro Nathan Coombs

Christian Marazzi, Capital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy Jean-Jacques Lecercle

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, On Reason: Rationality in …


154 Reviews

by , , , and / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009) / Reviews

Martin Hägglund, Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life Nathan Brown

Axel Honneth, Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory Axel Honneth, Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea, with Judith Butler, Raymond Geuss and Jonathan Lear Nina Power

Xudong Zhang, Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decadeof the Twentieth Century


The Substance of Thought, Cornell University, NY, 10–12 April 2008

by / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008) / Conference Report


The inorganic open

Nanotechnology and physical being
by / RP 144 (Jul/Aug 2007) / Article