Contributor Archive: David Cunningham
Genre without genre
Romanticism, the novel and the new
by David Cunningham / RP 196 (Mar/Apr 2016) / Dossier, Romantic Transdisciplinarity 1
Form, as it is mastered, becomes attenuated; it becomes dissociated from any liturgy, rule, yardstick; the epic is discarded in favour of the novel, verse in favour of prose; there is no longer any orthodoxy, and form is as free as the will of its creator.
Gustave Flaubert [1]
‘Just as our literature began …
A Marxist heresy?
Accelerationism and its discontents
by David Cunningham / RP 191 (May/Jun 2015) / Article, Future Stasis
In his study of the semantics of historical time, Reinhart Koselleck proposes that ‘two specific determinants’ characterize modernity’s ‘new experience of transition: the expected otherness of the future and, associated with it, the alteration in the rhythm of temporal experience: acceleration, by means of which one’s own time is distinguished from what went before’. If …
The contingency of cheese
On Fredric Jameson’s The Antinomies of Realism
by David Cunningham / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Article
Fredric Jameson has been a busy man over the last decade. As well as two massive tomes on science fiction and modernism, combining republished essays with extensive new material, there has been a trilogy of books on Hegel and Marx which have sought to defend dialectical thinking from its discontents both internal and external to …
Rock as minimal modernism
Lou Reed, 1942–2013
by David Cunningham / RP 183 (Jan/Feb 2014) / Obituary
I wouldn’t recommend me as entertainment. – Lou Reed, 1978
It has acquired the status of a primal scene. 1964. A party in New York’s Lower East Side, the mythical site of the period. Terry Phillips, an executive at Pickwick Records, meets two ‘long-haired’ young men. Thinking they look the part, he asks them if they …
Here comes the new
Deadwood and the historiography of capitalism
by David Cunningham / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Article
We are swept up, are we not, by the large events and forces of our times?
A.W. Merrick, Deadwood, Season 3
Shown across three twelve-episode series that began in 2004, Deadwood is one of several recent television programmes to develop long, serially formatted narratives of a complexity and scale hitherto unusual in its medium. …
178 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Massimilliano Tomba, Marx’s Temporalities
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance
Edward Baring, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968
Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya–Marcuse–Fromm Correspondence Louis Althusser, Cours sur Rousseau
McKenzie Wark, The Beach Beneath the Street: The Curious Times and Everyday Life of the Situationist International
Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy
Julie Stephens, Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory and Care
Routledge, Security Studies: New Titles and Key Backlist, 2012
After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer, BAK, Utrecht, 20 May-15 July 2012
by Harry Harootunian, David Cunningham, Andrew McGettigan, Yotam Feldman, Ben Watson, Stefano Pippa, Jessica Elaine Reilly, Alison Stone, Mark Neocleous and Alex Dubilet / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Reviews
Only a poet can save us
by David Cunningham / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Review
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance, Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 2012. 173 pp., £9.95 pb., 978 1 58435 112 2.
This is the fourteenth book to be published in Semiotext(e)’s Intervention series of pocket-sized texts. Launched with the translation of The Invisible Committee’s The Coming Insurrection in 2009, it evidently seeks to revive …
176 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Benoît Peeters, Derrida: A Biography
Simon Critchley, The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology
Claudia Aradau and Rens Van Munster, Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown
Stuart Price, Worst Case Scenario? Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime
Martin Breaugh, L’Expérience Plébéienne
Tina Chanter, Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery
Stella Sandford, Plato and Sex
Alain Badiou, with Nicolas Truong, In Praise of Love
Yehoshua Yakhot, The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR: The 1920s & 1930s
Jay Lampert, Simultaneity and Delay: A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time
by David Cunningham, David van Dusen, Peter Adey, Bruno Dias, Christine Battersby, Nicola Foster, Stella Sandford, Emanuele Saccarelli and Martijn Boven / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / Reviews
Grande biog
by David Cunningham / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / Review
Benoît Peeters, Derrida: A Biography, trans. Andrew Brown, Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2012. 603 pp., £25.00 hb., 978 0 74565 615 1.
‘What matter who’s speaking, someone said, what matter who’s speaking?’ Despite post-structuralist philosophies’ association with Beckettian questions such as these, they remain surprisingly bound to what Foucault …
173 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse, eds, Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death
Stephen J. Collier, Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics
Roberto Esposito, Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life
Ben Watson, Adorno for Revolutionaries
Tosaka Jun, Ideologie, Medien, Alltag: Eine Auswahl ideologiekritischer, kulturund medientheoretischer und geschictsphilosophischer Schriften
Jussi Parikka, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
Arthur Bradley, Originary Technicity: The Theory of Technology from Marx to Derrida
Costas Panayotakis, Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
Dominic Pettman, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines
Donna V. Jones, The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity
Timothy Bewes, The Event of Postcolonial Shame
Claudio Calia and Antonio Negri, Antonio Negri Illustrated: Interview in Venice
by Claudia Aradau, David Cunningham, Harry Harootunian, Caroline Bassett, Christopher Ruth, Jeremy Till, Jussi Parikka, Benjamin Noys and Timothy S. Murphy / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / Reviews
Elementary
by David Cunningham / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / Review
Ben Watson, Adorno for Revolutionaries, Unkant, London, 2011. 217 pp., £10.99 pb., 978 0 95681 760 0.
David Cunningham
In a much-cited March 1936 letter to Walter Benjamin, Adorno famously remarks of the separation between autonomous art and mass culture that, while both ‘bear the stigmata of capitalism’, and ‘both contain elements of …
170 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Literature
Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor and Cornell West, The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Clayton Crockett, Radical Political Theology
Niilo Kauppi,Radicalism in French Culture
Heiko Schmid, Wolf-Dietrich Sahr and John Urry, eds., Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning
Adrian Mackenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Culture
Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor
Andrew Kolin, State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush
by David Cunningham, Roland Boer, Edward Baring, Jon Goodbun, Emilie Connolly and Terrell Carver / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Reviews
Flaubert’s parrot
by David Cunningham / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Review
Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Literature, trans. Julie Rose, Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2011. 215 pp., £55.00 hb., £17.99 pb., 978 0 74564 531 5 hb., 978 0 74564 530 8 pb.
David Cunningham
The ongoing role played by French philosophy in underwriting the contemporaneity of anglophone theory has entailed, since …
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.
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
Walking into walls: Academic freedom, the Israeli Left and the occupation within
by David Cunningham / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008) / News
145 Reviews
by Knox Peden, David Cunningham, Ken Hirschkop, Christian Kerslake and Howard Feather / RP 145 (Sep/Oct 2007) / Reviews
Antonio Negri, The Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project Knox Peden
Pascale Casanova, Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution Andrew Gibson, Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency David Cunningham
Massimo Montanari, Food is Culture Ken Hirschkop
Dave Boothroyd, Culture on Drugs: Narco-cultural Studies of High Modernity Christian Kerslake
Noel Castree and …
Slumming it
Mike Davis’s grand narrative of urban revolution
by David Cunningham / RP 142 (Mar/Apr 2007) / Article
Answering the question: What is to be done?
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project
by David Cunningham / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / Article, documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
Genre without genre
Romanticism, the novel and the newby David Cunningham / RP 196 (Mar/Apr 2016) / Dossier, Romantic Transdisciplinarity 1
Form, as it is mastered, becomes attenuated; it becomes dissociated from any liturgy, rule, yardstick; the epic is discarded in favour of the novel, verse in favour of prose; there is no longer any orthodoxy, and form is as free as the will of its creator.
Gustave Flaubert [1]
‘Just as our literature began …
A Marxist heresy?
Accelerationism and its discontentsby David Cunningham / RP 191 (May/Jun 2015) / Article, Future Stasis
In his study of the semantics of historical time, Reinhart Koselleck proposes that ‘two specific determinants’ characterize modernity’s ‘new experience of transition: the expected otherness of the future and, associated with it, the alteration in the rhythm of temporal experience: acceleration, by means of which one’s own time is distinguished from what went before’. If …
The contingency of cheese
On Fredric Jameson’s The Antinomies of Realismby David Cunningham / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Article
Fredric Jameson has been a busy man over the last decade. As well as two massive tomes on science fiction and modernism, combining republished essays with extensive new material, there has been a trilogy of books on Hegel and Marx which have sought to defend dialectical thinking from its discontents both internal and external to …
Rock as minimal modernism
Lou Reed, 1942–2013
by David Cunningham / RP 183 (Jan/Feb 2014) / Obituary
I wouldn’t recommend me as entertainment. – Lou Reed, 1978
It has acquired the status of a primal scene. 1964. A party in New York’s Lower East Side, the mythical site of the period. Terry Phillips, an executive at Pickwick Records, meets two ‘long-haired’ young men. Thinking they look the part, he asks them if they …
Here comes the new
Deadwood and the historiography of capitalismby David Cunningham / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Article
We are swept up, are we not, by the large events and forces of our times?
A.W. Merrick, Deadwood, Season 3
Shown across three twelve-episode series that began in 2004, Deadwood is one of several recent television programmes to develop long, serially formatted narratives of a complexity and scale hitherto unusual in its medium. …
178 Reviews
Books Reviewed:Massimilliano Tomba, Marx’s Temporalities
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance
Edward Baring, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968
Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya–Marcuse–Fromm Correspondence Louis Althusser, Cours sur Rousseau
McKenzie Wark, The Beach Beneath the Street: The Curious Times and Everyday Life of the Situationist International
Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy
Julie Stephens, Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory and Care
Routledge, Security Studies: New Titles and Key Backlist, 2012
After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer, BAK, Utrecht, 20 May-15 July 2012
by Harry Harootunian, David Cunningham, Andrew McGettigan, Yotam Feldman, Ben Watson, Stefano Pippa, Jessica Elaine Reilly, Alison Stone, Mark Neocleous and Alex Dubilet / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Reviews
Only a poet can save us
by David Cunningham / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / ReviewFranco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance, Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 2012. 173 pp., £9.95 pb., 978 1 58435 112 2.
This is the fourteenth book to be published in Semiotext(e)’s Intervention series of pocket-sized texts. Launched with the translation of The Invisible Committee’s The Coming Insurrection in 2009, it evidently seeks to revive …
176 Reviews
Books Reviewed:Benoît Peeters, Derrida: A Biography
Simon Critchley, The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology
Claudia Aradau and Rens Van Munster, Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown
Stuart Price, Worst Case Scenario? Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime
Martin Breaugh, L’Expérience Plébéienne
Tina Chanter, Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery
Stella Sandford, Plato and Sex
Alain Badiou, with Nicolas Truong, In Praise of Love
Yehoshua Yakhot, The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR: The 1920s & 1930s
Jay Lampert, Simultaneity and Delay: A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time
by David Cunningham, David van Dusen, Peter Adey, Bruno Dias, Christine Battersby, Nicola Foster, Stella Sandford, Emanuele Saccarelli and Martijn Boven / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / Reviews
Grande biog
by David Cunningham / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / ReviewBenoît Peeters, Derrida: A Biography, trans. Andrew Brown, Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2012. 603 pp., £25.00 hb., 978 0 74565 615 1.
‘What matter who’s speaking, someone said, what matter who’s speaking?’ Despite post-structuralist philosophies’ association with Beckettian questions such as these, they remain surprisingly bound to what Foucault …
173 Reviews
Books Reviewed:Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse, eds, Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death
Stephen J. Collier, Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics
Roberto Esposito, Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life
Ben Watson, Adorno for Revolutionaries
Tosaka Jun, Ideologie, Medien, Alltag: Eine Auswahl ideologiekritischer, kulturund medientheoretischer und geschictsphilosophischer Schriften
Jussi Parikka, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
Arthur Bradley, Originary Technicity: The Theory of Technology from Marx to Derrida
Costas Panayotakis, Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
Dominic Pettman, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines
Donna V. Jones, The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity
Timothy Bewes, The Event of Postcolonial Shame
Claudio Calia and Antonio Negri, Antonio Negri Illustrated: Interview in Venice
by Claudia Aradau, David Cunningham, Harry Harootunian, Caroline Bassett, Christopher Ruth, Jeremy Till, Jussi Parikka, Benjamin Noys and Timothy S. Murphy / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / Reviews
Elementary
by David Cunningham / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / ReviewBen Watson, Adorno for Revolutionaries, Unkant, London, 2011. 217 pp., £10.99 pb., 978 0 95681 760 0.
David Cunningham
In a much-cited March 1936 letter to Walter Benjamin, Adorno famously remarks of the separation between autonomous art and mass culture that, while both ‘bear the stigmata of capitalism’, and ‘both contain elements of …
170 Reviews
Books Reviewed:Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Literature
Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor and Cornell West, The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Clayton Crockett, Radical Political Theology
Niilo Kauppi,Radicalism in French Culture
Heiko Schmid, Wolf-Dietrich Sahr and John Urry, eds., Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning
Adrian Mackenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Culture
Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor
Andrew Kolin, State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush
by David Cunningham, Roland Boer, Edward Baring, Jon Goodbun, Emilie Connolly and Terrell Carver / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Reviews
Flaubert’s parrot
by David Cunningham / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / ReviewJacques Rancière, The Politics of Literature, trans. Julie Rose, Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2011. 215 pp., £55.00 hb., £17.99 pb., 978 0 74564 531 5 hb., 978 0 74564 530 8 pb.
David Cunningham
The ongoing role played by French philosophy in underwriting the contemporaneity of anglophone theory has entailed, since …
Capitalist Epics
Abstraction, totality and the theory of the novelby 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.
Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf
Propaganda architectureby Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Jon Goodbun and David Cunningham / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009) / Interview
Walking into walls: Academic freedom, the Israeli Left and the occupation within
by David Cunningham / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008) / News145 Reviews
by Knox Peden, David Cunningham, Ken Hirschkop, Christian Kerslake and Howard Feather / RP 145 (Sep/Oct 2007) / ReviewsAntonio Negri, The Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project Knox Peden
Pascale Casanova, Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution Andrew Gibson, Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency David Cunningham
Massimo Montanari, Food is Culture Ken Hirschkop
Dave Boothroyd, Culture on Drugs: Narco-cultural Studies of High Modernity Christian Kerslake
Noel Castree and …
Slumming it
Mike Davis’s grand narrative of urban revolutionby David Cunningham / RP 142 (Mar/Apr 2007) / Article
Answering the question: What is to be done?
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project
by David Cunningham / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / Article, documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
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