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Kunstchaos
Incompletion, reversibility and fragmentary montageby Olivier Schefer / RP 198 (Jul/Aug 2016) / Article, Romantic Transdisciplinarity 2
Le multiple, il faut le faire…
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
In 1798 Novalis famously wrote: ‘Poetry is the authentic absolute real. This is the core of my philosophy. The more poetic, the more true.’ [1] This aphorism expresses what might be called the …
The dream is a fragment
Freud, transdisciplinarity and early German Romanticismby Stella Sandford / RP 198 (Jul/Aug 2016) / Article, Romantic Transdisciplinarity 2
An appreciation and practice of the fragment is a feature of all European Romanticism, but it was in early German (or ‘Jena’) Romanticism, and most of all in the work of Friedrich Schlegel, that the concept of ‘the fragment’ was philosophically determined. Indeed, the fragment has been called ‘the central philosophical concept of early German …
The obscure object of transdisciplinarity
Adorno on the essay formby Antonia Birnbaum / RP 198 (Jul/Aug 2016) / Article, Romantic Transdisciplinarity 2
Any attempt to conceptualize transdisciplinarity is bound to experiment with disciplinary boundaries. And such experimentation cannot simply be held to the criteria of academic study. It is must in fact problematize the boundaries between academic study and forms or instances of thinking which take place outside of such scholarship. However, these disruptive practices have become …
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Lost minds
Sedgwick, Laing and the politics of mental illnessby Hannah Proctor / RP 197 (May/June 2016) / Article
Our illnesses are mostly political illnesses. Peter Weiss [1]
In Memoirs of a Revolutionary Victor Serge describes the first decade of Soviet rule as displaying ‘the obscure early stages of a psychosis’, the symptoms of which became increasingly pronounced as time wore on and the defeats and corpses piled ever …
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Gillian Rose’s critique of violence
by Anthony Gorman / RP 197 (May/June 2016) / ArticleThe crisis of the legitimacy of the liberal democratic state is being posed today with an urgency and acuity not seen since the debates over the legitimacy of Weimar parliamentary democracy. Its constitutive claim to be able to satisfy both the values of justice and pluralism appears to be coming apart at the seams. Far …
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Common senses
Deleuze and Lyotard between ground and formby Frederic Fruteau de Laclos / RP 197 (May/June 2016) / Article
‘One day, perhaps, this century will be known as Deleuzian.’ This is how Michel Foucault famously opened his admiring review of Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition. [1] Responding to the praise, Deleuze merely called attention to the hint of humour underlying Foucault’s remark. [2] Yet to give …
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Guattari and transversality
Institutions, analysis and experimentationby Andrew Goffey / RP 195 (Jan/Feb 2016) / Article
How, on the basis of what problems and concerns, in reference to what concepts, and in the light of what practices, can and should we understand the work of Félix Guattari? It is now fairly widely accepted that Guattari was not simply a junior partner in the two-headed exploration of capitalism and schizophrenia signed ‘Deleuze …
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Radical openness
Chord symbols, musical abstraction and modernismby Mark Abel / RP 195 (Jan/Feb 2016) / Article
‘Would anyone like to suggest a chord?’, said Keith Jarrett, swivelling on the piano stool to face the audience. There were a few shouts from the auditorium such as ‘A minor nine’ and ‘E flat seven sharp eleven’. Jarrett listened distractedly for a few moments, then said, ‘It’s okay, I’ve got my own’, and turned …
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The irony of anatomy
Basquiat’s poetics of black positionalityby Nathan Brown / RP 195 (Jan/Feb 2016) / Article
for Tanzeen Doha
Isabelle Graw Should I come to New York before I write the article on you?
Jean-Michel Basquiat What would you do if the artist you were writing about were dead?
Graw I would do as much research as possible, get together all the available information…
Basquiat Then just do it like that. Pretend I’m dead…
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Patent as credit
When intellectual property becomes speculativeby Hyo Yoon Kang / RP 194 (Nov/Dec 2015) / Article, Dossier, Property, Power, Law
Intellectual properties, the various kinds of which are known as patents, copyright and trademarks, could be regarded as central techniques of accumulation in contemporary capitalism, if immaterial knowledge is indeed what now crucially drives accumulation in a ‘knowledge economy’ or ‘creative industries’. [1] In such a process of value generation and …
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Disaggregating primitive accumulation
by Robert Nichols / RP 194 (Nov/Dec 2015) / Article, Dossier, Property, Power, LawFor nearly 150 years now, critical theorists of various stripes have attempted to explicate, correct and complement Marx’s discussion of the ‘so-called’ primitive accumulation of capital provided in Part Eight of the first volume of Capital. [1] This is perhaps especially true of Marxism in the English-speaking world. Whereas French and …
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Race, real estate and real abstraction
by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano / RP 194 (Nov/Dec 2015) / Article, Dossier, Property, Power, LawThe crises and mutations of contemporary capitalism have rendered palpable Marx’s observation according to which in bourgeois modernity human beings are ‘ruled by abstractions’. [1] The processes of financialization animating the dynamics of the 2007–8 crisis involved the violent irruption into the everyday lives of millions of a panoply of ominous …
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Global homocapitalism
by Rahul Rao / RP 194 (Nov/Dec 2015) / ArticleTemples of global capitalism have become increasingly vociferous of late in their opposition to homophobia. In February 2014, shortly after Uganda’s President Museveni gave his assent to a draconian Anti Homosexuality Act, the World Bank announced that it was delaying a US$90 million loan to Uganda on the grounds that the law would adversely affect …
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The central bank of symbolic capital
Bourdieu’s On the Stateby Bob Jessop / RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015) / Article
On the State comprises edited versions of three lecture courses that Pierre Bourdieu delivered between 1989 and 1992 at the Collège de France during his tenure of a research chair in sociology at that institution (1982–2001). [*] Beginning with the well-worn theme of the difficulties of thinking and studying the state, …
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Podemos and its critics
by Bécquer Seguín / RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015) / ArticleAlthough the movement that gave rise to it began years, if not decades, ago, Podemos, the political party, was born on 17 January 2014. For some, it was the result of years of organizing following the indignados protests, which occupied Madrid’s Puerta del Sol and other plazas across Spain during the summer of 2011. Others …
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Nature in the limits to capital (and vice versa)
by Jason W. Moore / RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015) / ArticleOf all the varieties of crisis thinking, ecological crisis is perhaps the least developed. It is certainly the least conceptualized. To be sure, there is no scar city of empirically rich analyses of biophysical shifts at every scale. But ecological crisis in its popular usage has been an expansive concept, implicating the widest range of …
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Anti-castism and misplaced nativism
Mapping caste as an aspect of raceby Meena Dhanda / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / Article
From September 2013 to February 2014 I led a project on ‘Caste in Britain’ for the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). [*] It culminated in two research reports. [1] The remit of the project was, first, to review existing socio-legal research on British equality law …
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Chats perchés
Chris Marker’s mimetic, comical and historical prophecyby Gertrud Koch / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / Article, Philosophy of the Essay Film
Jokes between sight and said
Let me start from scratch – with an unspectacular filmic operation that has the minimalistic charm of a one-liner joke. A one-liner joke is a type of verbal joke, one that has it all in one line, just like the joke that Karl Valentin, a Bavarian comedian, once made and …
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The history of cinema, as experience
by Christa Blümlinger / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / Article, Philosophy of the Essay FilmFilm as metahistory
In 1998 at the Cannes Film Festival, Jean-Luc Godard – having completed his Histoire(s) du cinéma project – presented a special reprint of the magazine Trafic. This included an article by the American artist Hollis Frampton. [1] Frampton’s essay, ‘For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses’, …
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Art, documentary and the essay film
by Esther Leslie / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / Article, Philosophy of the Essay FilmFilm as document
The moment when Siegfried Kracauer knew that he wanted to write of film as what he terms the ‘Discover of the Marvels of Everyday Life’ is relayed in his introduction to the Theory of Film from 1960. [1] Kracauer recalls watching a film long ago that shows a …