Contributor Archive: Peter Osborne
Introduction
by Peter Osborne / RP 196 (Mar/Apr 2016) / Dossier, Romantic Transdisciplinarity 1
Introduction
Of all the genealogical sources of contemporary critical theory, in both its German- and French-inspired variants, early German Romanticism remains the most potent, yet it is also the least explicated in relation to current theoretical trends. [*] The sources of modern criticism in Jena Romanticism are widely acknowledged, yet when theory parades as …
Futures present
Lite, dark and missing
by Peter Osborne / RP 191 (May/Jun 2015) / Article, Future Stasis
‘The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy’, Adorno wrote in a sentence used here as the motto for Verso’s new ‘Futures’ series, from which these three books by Augé, Berardi and Virno form the bulk of the first batch. [*] But what becomes of the essay when …
Realism and moral being
Andrew Collier, 1944–2014
by Peter Osborne and William Outhwaite / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Obituary
Andrew Collier, who died on 3 July after more than a decade living with cancer, was a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective during the 1990s and a longstanding contributor to the journal. Born in Edmonton, North London, towards the end of World War II, he attended Bedford College, University of London (later …
The postconceptual condition
Or, the cultural logic of high capitalism today
by Peter Osborne / RP 184 (Mar/Apr 2014) / Article
Those with long enough memories will no doubt recognize the crossed syntax of my title. It mimics, first, that of a text which, while in historical terms still recent, is nonetheless already antiquated, even if not yet sufficiently so to have acquired the ‘revolutionary energies’ that André Breton and, after him, Walter Benjamin sought in …
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), …
Disguised as a dog
Cynical Occupy?
by Peter Osborne / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / Article
I take my title and my philosophical cue from a passage in Marx’s 1839 ‘Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy’. I take my artistic cue from the early work of Valie Export. The passage from Marx reads as follows:
As in the history of philosophy there are nodal points which raise philosophy in …
David Macey, 1949-2011
Biographer of the French intellectual Left
by Neil Belton and Peter Osborne / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / Obituary
David Macey died from complications of lung cancer on 7 October. He embodied the paradox of being a fine public intellectual while remaining an intenselyprivate person. He was one of the best intellectual historians of his generation and added appreciably to scholarly knowledge, yet did his most significant work as a freelance writer …
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
Introduction to the dossier 'From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought' (RP 165/167)
by Peter Osborne / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
The concept of transdisciplinarity is not part of the explicit discourse or self-consciousness of ‘French thought’. Rather, it is used here, imported from the outside as a kind of operator or problematizing device, to begin a process of rethinking one of that body of thought’s most distinctive but infrequently remarked upon characteristics – its tendency …
A sudden topicality
Marx, Nietzsche and the politics of crisis
by Peter Osborne / RP 160 (Mar/Apr 2010) / Article
Marx, Nietzsche and the politics of crisis
Undoing the aesthetic image
Dossier: Undoing the Aesthetic Image (introduction)
by Peter Osborne / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009) / Dossier, Undoing the Aesthetic Image
Jeff Wall
Art after photography, after conceptual art
by Jeff Wall and Peter Osborne / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008) / Interview
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
Debacle
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project (introduction)
by Peter Osborne / RP 146 (Nov/Dec 2007) / documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
What is to be done? (education)
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project (introduction)
by Peter Osborne / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
Vocabulary of European Philosophies, Part 2 (Object)
by Peter Osborne, Dominique Pradelle, Olivier Boulnois and Jean-Francois Courtine / RP 139 (Sep/Oct 2006) / Article
Introduction
Gegenstand/Objekt Dominique Pradelle
Object Olivier Boulnois
Res Jean-François Courtine
Vocabulary of European Philosophies, Part 1 (Subject)
Subject
by Peter Osborne, Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin and Alain de Libera / RP 138 (Jul/Aug 2006) / Article
Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin, Alain de Libera
Introduction by Peter Osborne.
The Dreambird of Experience
Utopia, Possibility, Boredom
by Peter Osborne / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / Article
Introduction
by Peter Osborne / RP 196 (Mar/Apr 2016) / Dossier, Romantic Transdisciplinarity 1Introduction
Of all the genealogical sources of contemporary critical theory, in both its German- and French-inspired variants, early German Romanticism remains the most potent, yet it is also the least explicated in relation to current theoretical trends. [*] The sources of modern criticism in Jena Romanticism are widely acknowledged, yet when theory parades as …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160410055226im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
Futures present
Lite, dark and missingby Peter Osborne / RP 191 (May/Jun 2015) / Article, Future Stasis
‘The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy’, Adorno wrote in a sentence used here as the motto for Verso’s new ‘Futures’ series, from which these three books by Augé, Berardi and Virno form the bulk of the first batch. [*] But what becomes of the essay when …
Realism and moral being
Andrew Collier, 1944–2014by Peter Osborne and William Outhwaite / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Obituary
Andrew Collier, who died on 3 July after more than a decade living with cancer, was a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective during the 1990s and a longstanding contributor to the journal. Born in Edmonton, North London, towards the end of World War II, he attended Bedford College, University of London (later …
The postconceptual condition
Or, the cultural logic of high capitalism today
by Peter Osborne / RP 184 (Mar/Apr 2014) / Article
Those with long enough memories will no doubt recognize the crossed syntax of my title. It mimics, first, that of a text which, while in historical terms still recent, is nonetheless already antiquated, even if not yet sufficiently so to have acquired the ‘revolutionary energies’ that André Breton and, after him, Walter Benjamin sought in …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160410055226im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
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), …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160410055226im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
Disguised as a dog
Cynical Occupy?by Peter Osborne / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / Article
I take my title and my philosophical cue from a passage in Marx’s 1839 ‘Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy’. I take my artistic cue from the early work of Valie Export. The passage from Marx reads as follows:
As in the history of philosophy there are nodal points which raise philosophy in …
David Macey, 1949-2011
Biographer of the French intellectual Leftby Neil Belton and Peter Osborne / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / Obituary
David Macey died from complications of lung cancer on 7 October. He embodied the paradox of being a fine public intellectual while remaining an intenselyprivate person. He was one of the best intellectual historians of his generation and added appreciably to scholarly knowledge, yet did his most significant work as a freelance writer …
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
Introduction to the dossier 'From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought' (RP 165/167)by Peter Osborne / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
The concept of transdisciplinarity is not part of the explicit discourse or self-consciousness of ‘French thought’. Rather, it is used here, imported from the outside as a kind of operator or problematizing device, to begin a process of rethinking one of that body of thought’s most distinctive but infrequently remarked upon characteristics – its tendency …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160410055226im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
A sudden topicality
Marx, Nietzsche and the politics of crisisby Peter Osborne / RP 160 (Mar/Apr 2010) / Article
Marx, Nietzsche and the politics of crisis
Undoing the aesthetic image
Dossier: Undoing the Aesthetic Image (introduction)by Peter Osborne / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009) / Dossier, Undoing the Aesthetic Image
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160410055226im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
Jeff Wall
Art after photography, after conceptual art
by Jeff Wall and Peter Osborne / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008) / Interview
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160410055226im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
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
Debacle
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project (introduction)by Peter Osborne / RP 146 (Nov/Dec 2007) / documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
What is to be done? (education)
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project (introduction)
by Peter Osborne / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
Vocabulary of European Philosophies, Part 2 (Object)
by Peter Osborne, Dominique Pradelle, Olivier Boulnois and Jean-Francois Courtine / RP 139 (Sep/Oct 2006) / ArticleIntroduction
Gegenstand/Objekt Dominique Pradelle
Object Olivier Boulnois
Res Jean-François Courtine
Vocabulary of European Philosophies, Part 1 (Subject)
Subject
by Peter Osborne, Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin and Alain de Libera / RP 138 (Jul/Aug 2006) / Article
Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin, Alain de Libera
Introduction by Peter Osborne.
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The Dreambird of Experience
Utopia, Possibility, Boredomby Peter Osborne / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / Article