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Contributor Archive: Bruno Bosteels

An introduction to Alain Badiou’s ‘The autonomy of the aesthetic process’

by / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Article

See Alain Badiou, ‘The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process’ (in the same issue)


León Rozitchner, 1924–2011

Politics and subjectivity, head-to-head
by / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Obituary

When León Rozitchner passed away on 4 September 2011 after months in the hospital where he had been battling the complications of a cancer operation, his long-time friend and the current director of the National Library of Argentina, Horacio González, referred to him as ‘the philosopher the country has had for the past sixty years’. A …


Reviewing Rancière. Or, the persistence of discrepancies

Dossier: The Althusser–Rancière Controversy


by / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Article, Dossier, The Althusser–Rancière Controversy

In the nearly four decades since its original publication, Althusser’s Lesson has acquired a certain mythical aura as the dark precursor of things to come. Even with the wealth of translations of Jacques Rancière’s work that have been published at an increasingly feverish pace over the past few years in the wake of the …


The jargon of finitude

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


Mexico 1968

The revolution of shame
by / RP 149 (May/Jun 2008) / Commentary