radical philosophy

Capitalist Epics

Abstraction, totality and the theory of the novel
by David Cunningham / RP 163 (Sep/Oct 2010) / Article

In our recent highlight from RP163, David Cunningham examines the relationship between Lukács’ ‘The Theory of the Novel’ and his later Marxist works, and its asks how we are to read this work today.

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

Notes on the photographic image

Dossier: Undoing the Aesthetic Image
by Jacques Rancière / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009) / Article, Dossier, Undoing the Aesthetic Image

The jargon of finitude

Or, materialism today
by Bruno Bosteels / RP 155 (May/Jun 2009) / Article

Walter Benjamin and the Red Army Faction, Part 3

by Irving Wohlfarth / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009) / Article

Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf

Propaganda architecture
by Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Jon Goodbun and David Cunningham / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009) / Interview

Flux and flurry

Stillness and hypermovement in animated worlds
by Esther Leslie / RP 152 (Nov/Dec 2008) / Article

The impossibility of gender in narratives of China’s modernity

by Harriet Evans / RP 146 (Nov/Dec 2007) / Article

War on latency: On some relations between surrealism and terror

Dossier: Spheres of action - Art and politics
by Peter Sloterdijk / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / Article, Dossier, Spheres of action - Art and politics

The Dreambird of Experience

Utopia, Possibility, Boredom
by Peter Osborne / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / Article

Nihilism and faith

Rose, Bernstein and the future of Critical Theory
by Anthony Gorman / RP 134 (Nov/Dec 2005) / Article

Quartering the millennium

by Harry Harootunian / RP 116 (Nov/Dec 2002) / Article

Cracking the cultural code

Methodological reflections on Kracauer’s ‘The Mass Ornament’
by Steve Giles / RP 099 (Jan/Feb 2000) / Article

The significance of the twentieth century

by Fred Halliday / RP 098 (Nov/Dec 1999) / Commentary

The space of flows and timeless time

Manuel Castells’s The Information Age
by Simon Bromley / RP 097 (Sep/Oct 1999) / Article

Agnes Heller

Post-Marxism and the ethics of modernity
by Agnes Heller and Simon Tormey / RP 094 (Mar/Apr 1999) / Interview

Radical Conservatism, or, the Conservatism of Radicals

Giddens, Blair and the Politics of Reaction
by Mark Neocleous / RP 093 (Jan/Feb 1999) / Article

The burden of our time

Hannah Arendt and the critique of political modernity
by Eleni Varikas / RP 092 (Nov/Dec 1998) / Article

Time and the working mother

Kristeva’s ‘Women’s Time’ revisited
by Carol Watts / RP 091 (Sep/Oct 1998) / Article

If there is one issue that occupies current debates in the media, and that is shaping British society in the last years of the century, it is the nature of time. This is arguably less to do with millennial fever than with the transformations in working practices which have, for the first time since the …