Posts tagged ‘politics’
A differing shade of green
by Allan Stoekl / RP 179 (May/Jun 2013) / Review
Adrian Parr, The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013. 224 pp., £20.50 hb., 978 0 23115 828 2.
This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others – one …
The poetry and prose of the Russian elections
by Svetlana Stephenson / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / Commentary
Between 10 December 2011, the day of the first mass protest against fraud in the recently held Russian parliamentary elections, and 4 March 2012, the day of the presidential vote, Moscow was a transformed place. The suffocating atmosphere of Putin’s rule was disturbed as if by a sudden breath of fresh air. People …
Keyspace
WikiLeaks and the Assange papers
by Finn Brunton / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) / Commentary
Years ago, Julian Assange considered solutions for an unusual problem, the kind of thing cryptographers discuss: how can you make sure a message only becomes readable at a certain time, not before, such that no human frailty or mechanical error interferes with the schedule? He came up with three answers, which display his knack for …
Gramsci and the political
From the state as ‘metaphysical event’ to hegemony as ‘philosophical fact’
by Peter Thomas / RP 153 (Jan/Feb 2009) / Article
Exile, war and democracy
An exemplary sequence
by Leon Rozitchner / RP 152 (Nov/Dec 2008) / Article
The question we want to pose is this: how do we open up a field of democratic politics as we emerge from terror and war?
In my exposition I will start where the previous speaker, Feinemann,1 left off as he endorsed the categories that Peron had taken from Clausewitz to move from the discussion of …
Counterterrorism legislation and the US state form
Authoritarian statism, phase 3
by Christos Boukalas / RP 151 (Sep/Oct 2008) / Article
Whatever happened to martial law?
Detainees and the logic of emergency
by Mark Neocleous / RP 143 (May/Jun 2007) / Article
Began teaching the detainee lessons such as stay,come, and bark to elevate his social status up tothat of a dog. Detainee became very agitated.– Guantánamo guard diary entry, 20 December 2002
What is a detainee? The term has been given a new lease of life as a result of the authoritarianism that has followed the …
The politics of equal aesthetic rights
Dossier: Spheres of action - Art and politics
by Boris Groys / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / Article, Dossier, Spheres of action - Art and politics
Art and politics are connected in one fundamental respect: both are realms in which a struggle for recognition is being waged. As defined by Alexandre Kojève in his commentary on Hegel, this struggle for recognition surpasses the usual struggle for the distribution of material goods, which in modernity is generally regulated by market forces. What …
The exemplary exception
Philosophical and political decisions in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer
by Andrew Norris / RP 119 (May/Jun 2003) / Article
The cosmopolitan paradox: Response to Robbins
With Reply to Chandler
by David Chandler and Bruce Robbins / RP 118 (Mar/Apr 2003) / Article
What is living and what is dead in Swedish social democracy?
by Magnus Ryner / RP 117 (Jan/Feb 2003) / Article
The end of politics
Culture, nation and other fundamentalisms
by Francis Mulhern / RP 112 (Mar/Apr 2002) / Article
The constitution of society
Pinochet, postdictatorship and the multitude
by Jon Beasley-Murray / RP 105 (Jan/Feb 2001) / Article
Dictators and democrats in Latin America
But can the poor tell the difference?
by Madeleine Davis / RP 104 (Nov/Dec 2000) / Commentary
Levinas’s political judgement
The Esprit articles 1934–1983
by Howard Caygill / RP 104 (Nov/Dec 2000) / Article
Third Way or Réalisme de Gauche?
The new social democracy in France
by Ben Clift / RP 101 (May/Jun 2000) / Commentary
Self help
Clinton, Blair and the politics of personal responsibility
by Jacinda Swanson / RP 101 (May/Jun 2000) / Article
What, then, should the new relationship between society and individual consist of? First, it involves a new concept of citizenship, in which rights and responsibilities go together…. As is so clear the more you examine the rise in crime and social disorder in Britain, the problem has been that the Left has tended to …
A differing shade of green
by Allan Stoekl / RP 179 (May/Jun 2013) / ReviewAdrian Parr, The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013. 224 pp., £20.50 hb., 978 0 23115 828 2.
This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others – one …
The poetry and prose of the Russian elections
by Svetlana Stephenson / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / CommentaryBetween 10 December 2011, the day of the first mass protest against fraud in the recently held Russian parliamentary elections, and 4 March 2012, the day of the presidential vote, Moscow was a transformed place. The suffocating atmosphere of Putin’s rule was disturbed as if by a sudden breath of fresh air. People …
Keyspace
WikiLeaks and the Assange papersby Finn Brunton / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) / Commentary
Years ago, Julian Assange considered solutions for an unusual problem, the kind of thing cryptographers discuss: how can you make sure a message only becomes readable at a certain time, not before, such that no human frailty or mechanical error interferes with the schedule? He came up with three answers, which display his knack for …
Gramsci and the political
From the state as ‘metaphysical event’ to hegemony as ‘philosophical fact’by Peter Thomas / RP 153 (Jan/Feb 2009) / Article
Exile, war and democracy
An exemplary sequenceby Leon Rozitchner / RP 152 (Nov/Dec 2008) / Article
The question we want to pose is this: how do we open up a field of democratic politics as we emerge from terror and war?
In my exposition I will start where the previous speaker, Feinemann,1 left off as he endorsed the categories that Peron had taken from Clausewitz to move from the discussion of …
Counterterrorism legislation and the US state form
Authoritarian statism, phase 3by Christos Boukalas / RP 151 (Sep/Oct 2008) / Article
Whatever happened to martial law?
Detainees and the logic of emergencyby Mark Neocleous / RP 143 (May/Jun 2007) / Article
Began teaching the detainee lessons such as stay,come, and bark to elevate his social status up tothat of a dog. Detainee became very agitated.– Guantánamo guard diary entry, 20 December 2002
What is a detainee? The term has been given a new lease of life as a result of the authoritarianism that has followed the …
The politics of equal aesthetic rights
Dossier: Spheres of action - Art and politicsby Boris Groys / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / Article, Dossier, Spheres of action - Art and politics
Art and politics are connected in one fundamental respect: both are realms in which a struggle for recognition is being waged. As defined by Alexandre Kojève in his commentary on Hegel, this struggle for recognition surpasses the usual struggle for the distribution of material goods, which in modernity is generally regulated by market forces. What …
The exemplary exception
Philosophical and political decisions in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacerby Andrew Norris / RP 119 (May/Jun 2003) / Article
The cosmopolitan paradox: Response to Robbins
With Reply to Chandlerby David Chandler and Bruce Robbins / RP 118 (Mar/Apr 2003) / Article
What is living and what is dead in Swedish social democracy?
by Magnus Ryner / RP 117 (Jan/Feb 2003) / ArticleThe end of politics
Culture, nation and other fundamentalismsby Francis Mulhern / RP 112 (Mar/Apr 2002) / Article
The constitution of society
Pinochet, postdictatorship and the multitudeby Jon Beasley-Murray / RP 105 (Jan/Feb 2001) / Article
Dictators and democrats in Latin America
But can the poor tell the difference?by Madeleine Davis / RP 104 (Nov/Dec 2000) / Commentary
Levinas’s political judgement
The Esprit articles 1934–1983by Howard Caygill / RP 104 (Nov/Dec 2000) / Article
Third Way or Réalisme de Gauche?
The new social democracy in Franceby Ben Clift / RP 101 (May/Jun 2000) / Commentary
Self help
Clinton, Blair and the politics of personal responsibilityby Jacinda Swanson / RP 101 (May/Jun 2000) / Article
What, then, should the new relationship between society and individual consist of? First, it involves a new concept of citizenship, in which rights and responsibilities go together…. As is so clear the more you examine the rise in crime and social disorder in Britain, the problem has been that the Left has tended to …