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187 Reviews

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Étienne Balibar, Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness

Iain MacKenzie

Étienne Balibar, Equaliberty: Political Essays

Nina Power

Jennifer Mensch, Kant’s Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy

Steve Howard

Adrian Johnston, Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume 1: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy

Simon Morgan Wortham

Nikolas Rose and …


Socialism or Balibarism

by and / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Review

  It’s me again

Étienne Balibar, Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness, trans. Warren Montag, edited and introduced by Stella Sandford, Verso, London and New York, 2013. xlvi + 158 pp., £51.98 hb., £14.99 pb., 978 1 78168 135 0 hb., 978 1 78168 134 3 pb.

In recent years there …


183 Reviews

Peter Hallward and Knox Peden, eds, Concept and Form, Volume 1: Key Texts from the ‘Cahiers pour l’analyse’

Peter Hallward and Knox Peden, eds, Concept and Form Volume 2: Interviews and Essays on the ‘Cahiers pour l’analyse’

Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life

Peter Sloterdijk, The Art of Philosophy

Finn Brunton, Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet

Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey, Evil Media

Pete Jordan, In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist

T.J. Clark, Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica

Gert Biesta, Julie Allan and Richard Edwards, eds, Making a Difference in Theory: The Theory Question in Education and the Education Question in Theory

Uncertain Commons, Speculate This!


by , , , , , and / RP 183 (Jan/Feb 2014) / Reviews


On your bike

by / RP 183 (Jan/Feb 2014) / Review

Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life, Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2013. 503 pp., £35.00 hb., 978 0 74564 921 4. Peter Sloterdijk, The Art of Philosophy, Columbia University Press, New York and Chichester, 2012. 146 pp., £41.50 hb., £13.95 pb., 978 0 23115 870 1 hb., 978 0 23115 871 8 pb.


177 Reviews

Books Reviewed:

Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

Bruno Bosteels, Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis and Religion in Times of Terror

Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage

Catherine Malabou, Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity

Frank Ruda, Hegel's Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'

Kari Weil, Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now?

Samantha Hum, Humans and Other Animals: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions

Albert Atkin, The Philosophy of Race

George Yancy, Look, a White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness

Ash Amin, Land of Strangers

Lisa Siraganian, Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life

Alex Loftus, Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology


by , , , , , , , , and / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / Reviews


She’s just not that into you

by / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / Review

Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, trans. Ariana Reines, Semiotext(e), Intervention series 12, Los Angeles, 2012. 144 pp., £9.95 pb., 978 1 58435 108 5.

How best to describe the colonization of the body at this particular juncture of capitalist life? Much recent theorizing has focused on a kind of war of …


The Right To Protest

by / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / News

As Quebec erupts over plans to increase tuition fees by the equivalent of £200, and twelve people (including Professor Joshua Clover) who protested against a campus bank at University of California–Davis begin a trial that could see them imprisoned for eleven years and fined $1 million each, what of the scores of people …


Against Education Cuts

by , and / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) / News

Reports from the protests by those campaigning against the cuts to educations, including Nina Power on the centrality of women.


165 Reviews

by , , , , , and / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Reviews

Rob Chapman, Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head Julian Palacios, Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd: Dark Globe Michele Mari, Rosso Floyd Howard Caygill

Martin Heidegger, The Phenomenology of Religious Life Andrew McGettigan

Bruce C. Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen, eds, Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Second-Order Systems Theory Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches …


163 Reviews

by , , , , , and / RP 163 (Sep/Oct 2010) / Reviews

Gerald Raunig, A Thousand Machines: A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement Evan Calder Williams

Jean-Luc Nancy, Identité: Fragments, franchises David Nowell Smith

Robert B. Pippin, Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life Timothy Hall

Nick Nesbitt, Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment Andrew Leak

Sara Ahmed, The Promise …


158 Reviews

by , , , , , , , , and / RP 158 (Nov/Dec 2009) / Reviews

Graham Harman, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics Andrew Goffey

Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time 2: Disorientation Bernard Stiegler, Acting Out Brian Rajski

Judith Butler, Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? Tarik Kochi, The Other’s War: Recognition and the Violence of Ethics Mark Neocleous

Peter Sloterdijk, Terror from the Air Mark Dorrian

Jeremy …


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


151 Reviews

by , , , and / RP 151 (Sep/Oct 2008) / Reviews

The zero of real conflict

Monique David-Ménard, Deleuze et la psychanalyse: L’altercation, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2005. 186 pp., €22.00 pb., 2 13 055081 9.

Christian Kerslake

As its subtitle indicates, this book stages an ‘altercation’ between Deleuze and psychoanalysis. The psychoanalysis in question is that of Freud …


Antonio Negri in Iran, 4–6 January 2005, House of Artists and Centre for Dialogue Among Civilizations, Tehran; 7 January 2005, Isfahan

by / RP 130 (Mar/Apr 2005) / Conference Report


128 Reviews

by , , , , , , , and / RP 128 (Nov/Dec 2004) / Reviews

Claudine Frank, ed., The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader David Macey

Judith Norman and Alexander Welchman, eds, The New Schelling Andrew Bowie

Pheng Cheah, Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation John Kraniauskas

Ben Watson, Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation David Cunningham

Judith Butler, Precarious …


124 Reviews

by , , , , and / RP 124 (Mar/Apr 2004) / Reviews

Louis Althusser, The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings Martin Halliwell and Andy Mousley, Critical Humanisms: Humanist/Anti-Humanist Dialogue Nina Power

Leonard Lawlor, The Challenge of Bergsonism Michael Vaughan

Mark Neocleous, Imagining the State John Kraniauskas

Stanley Aronowitz and Peter Bratsis, Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered Mark Neocleous

Ben Watson, Shitkicks and Doughballs Ian Patterson

Bertell Ollman, …


119 Reviews

by , , , , , and / RP 119 (May/Jun 2003) / Reviews

Kristin Ross, May ʼ68 and its Afterlives Daniel Bensaïd

Penelope Deutscher, A Politics of Impossible Difference:The Later Work of Luce Irigaray Monica Mookherjee

Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 2: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday Ben Highmore

Gaston Bachelard, The Formation of the Scientific Mind Nina Power

John McMurtry, Value Wars: The …