Contributor Archive: Ben Watson
Open your head
Frank Zappa, Dance Me This, Zappa Records, 2015. 48 mins 20.
by Ben Watson / RP 198 (Jul/Aug 2016) / Extras
In June 2015, twenty-two years after Frank Zappa’s death in 1993 and just before dying herself, his widow Gail released Dance Me This, his last completed album. While he was alive, Zappa’s each release mauled a fan’s idea of ‘good music’, exposing a previous identity as partial and bigoted, trashing personal taste in order to …
Helen Macfarlane
Independent object
by David Black and Ben Watson / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Article
Talking of the destructive nature of egoistic desire, its satisfaction that the other is nothing, Hegel made room for further development, an empirical moment which might surprise those who think German Idealism only ever allowed for abstraction: ‘In this satisfaction, however, experience makes it [the simple ‘I’] aware that the object has its own independence.’ …
182 Reviews
Béatrice Hibou, La bureaucratisation du monde à l’ère néolibérale
Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork
Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left
Boris Groys, Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media
Eugene Gogol, Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization
Tom Eyers, Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France
Alison Assiter and Margherita Tonon, eds, Kierkegaard and the Political
André Béteille, Democracy and Its Institutions
Shereen El Feki, Sex in the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
by Alberto Toscano, Jessica Schmidt, Andrew Goffey, Ben Watson, David Winters, Daniel Whistler, Guy Callan-Nardina Kaur and Devan Hawkins / RP 182 (Nov/Dec 2013) / Reviews
178 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Massimilliano Tomba, Marx’s Temporalities
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance
Edward Baring, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968
Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya–Marcuse–Fromm Correspondence Louis Althusser, Cours sur Rousseau
McKenzie Wark, The Beach Beneath the Street: The Curious Times and Everyday Life of the Situationist International
Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy
Julie Stephens, Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory and Care
Routledge, Security Studies: New Titles and Key Backlist, 2012
After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer, BAK, Utrecht, 20 May-15 July 2012
by Harry Harootunian, David Cunningham, Andrew McGettigan, Yotam Feldman, Ben Watson, Stefano Pippa, Jessica Elaine Reilly, Alison Stone, Mark Neocleous and Alex Dubilet / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Reviews
Truly Liberating
by Ben Watson / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Review
Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx and Critical Theory, Lexington Books, Lanham MD and Plymouth, 2012, 269 pp., £49.95 hb., £21.95 pb., 978 0 73916 835 6 hb, 978 0 73916 836 3 pb.
Raya Dunayevskaya died in 1987 aged 77, but her ideas remain alive …
Captain Beefheart, 1941–2010
Vorticist Artist
by Ben Watson / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) / Obituary
Ben Watson assesses Beefheart’s work as a protest against those who profit from the very separation of elite and mass music.
143 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Kaye Mitchell, Sas Mays, Sean Sayers and Jesse Cohn / RP 143 (May/Jun 2007) / Reviews
Theodor W. Adorno, Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory Ben Watson
Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology Kaye Mitchell
Jason Powell, Jacques Derrida: A Biography Sas Mays
Alasdair MacIntyre, The Tasks of Philosophy, Selected Essays Volume 1 Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays Volume 2 Sean Sayers
Benedict Anderson, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and …
129 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Andrew Goffey, Michael Halewood, Andrew Fisher and Christian Kerslake / RP 129 (Jan/Feb 2005) / Reviews
Ian H. Birchall, Sartre against Stalinism Ben Watson
Keith Crome, Lyotard and Greek Thought: Sophistry Andrew Goffey
Anne Fairchild Pomeroy, Marx and Whitehead: Process, Dialectics and the Critique of Capitalism Michael Halewood
Mark B.N. Hanson, New Philosophy for New Media Andrew Fisher
Bruce Fink, Lacan to the Letter: Reading Lacan Closely Christian Kerslake
NOISETHEORYNOISE#1, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, 6 March 2004
by Ben Watson / RP 125 (May/Jun 2004) / Conference Report
122 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Monica Mookherjee, John Kraniauskas, Barbara Caine, David Macey, Sean Sayers and Vasiliki Tsakiri / RP 122 (Nov/Dec 2003) / Reviews
Raoul Vaneigem, A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings: On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man Ben Watson
William E. Connolly, Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed William E. Connolly, Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox Monica Mookherjee
Christopher J. Arthur, The New Dialectic and Marxʼs ʻCapitalʼ John Kraniauskas
Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination …
116 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Joseph McCarney, Andrew McGettigan, Michael Sperlinger, Margarita Karkayanni, David Reggio and Phillip Cole / RP 116 (Nov/Dec 2002) / Reviews
Raya Dunayevskaya, The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx Ben Watson
Onora OʼNeill, Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics Onora OʼNeill, A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures 2002 Joseph McCarney
Phillip Goodchild, Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety Hent de Vries, Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from …
109 Reviews
by David Macey, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Alessandra Tanesini, Andrew Fisher, Robin Durie, Ben Watson, Nathan Widder, Roger Harris, David Murray and Mark Neocleous / RP 109 (Sep/Oct 2001) / Reviews
Ted Honderich, Philosopher: A Kind of Life David Macey
Peter Osborne, Philosophy in Cultural Theory Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Will Kymlicka, Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Alessandra Tanesini
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Neo-Avant-garde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 Andrew Fisher
Stella Sandford, The Metaphysics of Love: Gender …
106 Reviews
by Stewart Martin, Lynne Segal, Jonathan Joseph, Nathan Widder, Ben Highmore, Jane Chamberlain, Iain MacKenzie, James Penney, Erica Fudge, Andrew Fisher and Ben Watson / RP 106 (Mar/Apr 2001) / Reviews
Alain Badiou, Manifesto for Philosophy Stewart Martin
Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer, A Natural History of Rape Lynne Segal
Diana Coole, Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism Jonathan Joseph
Paul Patton, Deleuze and the Political Nathan Widder
Ian Buchanan, Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist Ben Highmore
Joseph McCarney, Hegel on History Jane Chamberlain
Samuel C. Wheeler III, Deconstruction …
Backwoods musicology
Roger Scruton’s aesthetics of music
by Ben Watson / RP 099 (Jan/Feb 2000) / Commentary
97 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Andrew Bowie, Anthony Arblaster, Robin May Schott, Judith Still, Alison Ainley, Elliot Jurist, David Macey, Francesca Cauchi and Tony Skillen / RP 097 (Sep/Oct 1999) / Reviews
Edmond Wright and Elizabeth Wright, eds, The Žižek Reader Ben Watson
Isaiah Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism Andrew Bowie
Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin: A Life Anthony Arblaster
Maria Pia Lara, Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere Robin May Schott
Maurice Godelier, The Enigma of the Gift Judith Still
Alessandra Tanesini, An Introduction to …
94 Reviews
by Ben Watson, David Macey, Gideon Calder, Martin Ryle, Kathleen Lennon, Andrew Fisher and Carol Watts / RP 094 (Mar/Apr 1999) / Reviews
Theodor W. Adorno, Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music Pamela M. Potter, Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitlerʼs Reich Ben Watson
Manfred Frank, The Subject and the Text Patrick ffrench and Roland-François Lack, eds, The Tel Quel Reader David Macey
Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country …
Open your head
Frank Zappa, Dance Me This, Zappa Records, 2015. 48 mins 20.
by Ben Watson / RP 198 (Jul/Aug 2016) / Extras
In June 2015, twenty-two years after Frank Zappa’s death in 1993 and just before dying herself, his widow Gail released Dance Me This, his last completed album. While he was alive, Zappa’s each release mauled a fan’s idea of ‘good music’, exposing a previous identity as partial and bigoted, trashing personal taste in order to …
Helen Macfarlane
Independent objectby David Black and Ben Watson / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Article
Talking of the destructive nature of egoistic desire, its satisfaction that the other is nothing, Hegel made room for further development, an empirical moment which might surprise those who think German Idealism only ever allowed for abstraction: ‘In this satisfaction, however, experience makes it [the simple ‘I’] aware that the object has its own independence.’ …
182 Reviews
Béatrice Hibou, La bureaucratisation du monde à l’ère néolibérale
Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork
Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left
Boris Groys, Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media
Eugene Gogol, Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization
Tom Eyers, Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France
Alison Assiter and Margherita Tonon, eds, Kierkegaard and the Political
André Béteille, Democracy and Its Institutions
Shereen El Feki, Sex in the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
by Alberto Toscano, Jessica Schmidt, Andrew Goffey, Ben Watson, David Winters, Daniel Whistler, Guy Callan-Nardina Kaur and Devan Hawkins / RP 182 (Nov/Dec 2013) / Reviews
178 Reviews
Books Reviewed:Massimilliano Tomba, Marx’s Temporalities
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance
Edward Baring, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968
Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya–Marcuse–Fromm Correspondence Louis Althusser, Cours sur Rousseau
McKenzie Wark, The Beach Beneath the Street: The Curious Times and Everyday Life of the Situationist International
Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy
Julie Stephens, Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory and Care
Routledge, Security Studies: New Titles and Key Backlist, 2012
After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer, BAK, Utrecht, 20 May-15 July 2012
by Harry Harootunian, David Cunningham, Andrew McGettigan, Yotam Feldman, Ben Watson, Stefano Pippa, Jessica Elaine Reilly, Alison Stone, Mark Neocleous and Alex Dubilet / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Reviews
Truly Liberating
by Ben Watson / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / ReviewKevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx and Critical Theory, Lexington Books, Lanham MD and Plymouth, 2012, 269 pp., £49.95 hb., £21.95 pb., 978 0 73916 835 6 hb, 978 0 73916 836 3 pb.
Raya Dunayevskaya died in 1987 aged 77, but her ideas remain alive …
Captain Beefheart, 1941–2010
Vorticist Artist
by Ben Watson / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) / Obituary
Ben Watson assesses Beefheart’s work as a protest against those who profit from the very separation of elite and mass music.
143 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Kaye Mitchell, Sas Mays, Sean Sayers and Jesse Cohn / RP 143 (May/Jun 2007) / ReviewsTheodor W. Adorno, Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory Ben Watson
Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology Kaye Mitchell
Jason Powell, Jacques Derrida: A Biography Sas Mays
Alasdair MacIntyre, The Tasks of Philosophy, Selected Essays Volume 1 Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays Volume 2 Sean Sayers
Benedict Anderson, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and …
129 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Andrew Goffey, Michael Halewood, Andrew Fisher and Christian Kerslake / RP 129 (Jan/Feb 2005) / ReviewsIan H. Birchall, Sartre against Stalinism Ben Watson
Keith Crome, Lyotard and Greek Thought: Sophistry Andrew Goffey
Anne Fairchild Pomeroy, Marx and Whitehead: Process, Dialectics and the Critique of Capitalism Michael Halewood
Mark B.N. Hanson, New Philosophy for New Media Andrew Fisher
Bruce Fink, Lacan to the Letter: Reading Lacan Closely Christian Kerslake
NOISETHEORYNOISE#1, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, 6 March 2004
by Ben Watson / RP 125 (May/Jun 2004) / Conference Report122 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Monica Mookherjee, John Kraniauskas, Barbara Caine, David Macey, Sean Sayers and Vasiliki Tsakiri / RP 122 (Nov/Dec 2003) / ReviewsRaoul Vaneigem, A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings: On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man Ben Watson
William E. Connolly, Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed William E. Connolly, Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox Monica Mookherjee
Christopher J. Arthur, The New Dialectic and Marxʼs ʻCapitalʼ John Kraniauskas
Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination …
116 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Joseph McCarney, Andrew McGettigan, Michael Sperlinger, Margarita Karkayanni, David Reggio and Phillip Cole / RP 116 (Nov/Dec 2002) / ReviewsRaya Dunayevskaya, The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx Ben Watson
Onora OʼNeill, Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics Onora OʼNeill, A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures 2002 Joseph McCarney
Phillip Goodchild, Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety Hent de Vries, Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from …
109 Reviews
by David Macey, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Alessandra Tanesini, Andrew Fisher, Robin Durie, Ben Watson, Nathan Widder, Roger Harris, David Murray and Mark Neocleous / RP 109 (Sep/Oct 2001) / ReviewsTed Honderich, Philosopher: A Kind of Life David Macey
Peter Osborne, Philosophy in Cultural Theory Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Will Kymlicka, Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Alessandra Tanesini
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Neo-Avant-garde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 Andrew Fisher
Stella Sandford, The Metaphysics of Love: Gender …
106 Reviews
by Stewart Martin, Lynne Segal, Jonathan Joseph, Nathan Widder, Ben Highmore, Jane Chamberlain, Iain MacKenzie, James Penney, Erica Fudge, Andrew Fisher and Ben Watson / RP 106 (Mar/Apr 2001) / ReviewsAlain Badiou, Manifesto for Philosophy Stewart Martin
Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer, A Natural History of Rape Lynne Segal
Diana Coole, Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism Jonathan Joseph
Paul Patton, Deleuze and the Political Nathan Widder
Ian Buchanan, Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist Ben Highmore
Joseph McCarney, Hegel on History Jane Chamberlain
Samuel C. Wheeler III, Deconstruction …
Backwoods musicology
Roger Scruton’s aesthetics of musicby Ben Watson / RP 099 (Jan/Feb 2000) / Commentary
97 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Andrew Bowie, Anthony Arblaster, Robin May Schott, Judith Still, Alison Ainley, Elliot Jurist, David Macey, Francesca Cauchi and Tony Skillen / RP 097 (Sep/Oct 1999) / ReviewsEdmond Wright and Elizabeth Wright, eds, The Žižek Reader Ben Watson
Isaiah Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism Andrew Bowie
Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin: A Life Anthony Arblaster
Maria Pia Lara, Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere Robin May Schott
Maurice Godelier, The Enigma of the Gift Judith Still
Alessandra Tanesini, An Introduction to …
94 Reviews
by Ben Watson, David Macey, Gideon Calder, Martin Ryle, Kathleen Lennon, Andrew Fisher and Carol Watts / RP 094 (Mar/Apr 1999) / ReviewsTheodor W. Adorno, Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music Pamela M. Potter, Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitlerʼs Reich Ben Watson
Manfred Frank, The Subject and the Text Patrick ffrench and Roland-François Lack, eds, The Tel Quel Reader David Macey
Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country …
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