Extras Archive
Open your head
Frank Zappa, Dance Me This, Zappa Records, 2015. 48 mins 20.by Ben Watson / RP 198 (Jul/Aug 2016) / Extras
In June 2015, twenty-two years after Frank Zappa’s death in 1993 and just before dying herself, his widow Gail released Dance Me This, his last completed album. While he was alive, Zappa’s each release mauled a fan’s idea of ‘good music’, exposing a previous identity as partial and bigoted, trashing personal taste in order to …
Letter: A response to Aradau on citizenship in the UK
by Nick Moss / RP 195 (Jan/Feb 2016) / ExtrasI take no issue with the majority of Claudia Aradau’s powerful ‘Become a permanent migrant to the UK!’ (RP 194). I think, however, that she is wrong to see the UK citizenship test as representing a point of discontinuity within the ‘procedure of continuous control’ which is the disciplinary power of the British state.
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Pre-emptive strike
by David Chandler and Mark Neocleous / RP 179 (May/Jun 2013) / ExtrasA response to ‘Resisting resilience’
As the editor of the new journal Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, published by Taylor & Francis, I am pleased to have a chance to respond to the ‘pre-emptive strike’ launched against the journal as a neoliberal ‘corporate-cum-academic dream’ in Mark Neocleous’s piece ‘Resisting Resilience’ (RP …
On theoretical foundations: Theses on Brecht
With an Introduction by Andrew McGettiganby Walter Benjamin and Andrew McGettigan / RP 179 (May/Jun 2013) / Extras
Introduction to Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theses on Brecht’
Andrew McGettigan
These four short paragraphs, translated here into English for the first time, were sketched out in Walter Benjamin’s hand on a sheet filed alongside a transcript for his radio talk ‘Bert Brecht’, broadcast on Frankfurter Rundfunk in June 1930.1 In content, they resemble …
De-definition of media: A telegraphic postscript
Dossier: What is German Media Philosophy?by Éric Alliez / RP 169 (Sep/Oct 2011) / Dossier, Extras, What is German Media Philosophy?
A “telegraphic postscript” by Éric Alliez to the dossier of articles on “What is German Media Philosophy?”
Who Was Oscar Masotta? Response to Derbyshire
Letterby Daniel R. Quiles / RP 164 (Nov/Dec 2010) / Extras
Philip Derbyshire (‘Who Was Oscar Masotta? Psychoanalysisin Argentina’, RP 158) should be commended for his insightful consideration of the literary and psychoanalytic writings of Oscar Masotta, one of the most important Argentine intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. I would like to make a case for juxtaposing these texts with Masotta’s idiosyncratic and interdisciplinary explorations …
It was better not to know
Chess Newsby Peter Buse / RP 163 (Sep/Oct 2010) / Extras
What have we learnt from Andrew McGettigan’s reconstruction (in RP 161) of the photographedSvendborg chess match? In a nutshell, that Brecht played bad moves and Benjaminfailed to take advantage. For those of us who have long cherished the idea of these two playingmatches of the highest standard to match their contributions outside the chess board, …
Benjamin and Brecht
Attrition in friendshipby Andrew McGettigan / RP 161 (May/Jun 2010) / Extras
Andrew McGettigen on Benjamin and Brecht’s games of chess.
Critical views of South Africa & Reply
by Patrick Bond and Ronald Suresh Roberts / RP 152 (Nov/Dec 2008) / ExtrasExchange on ‘Fixing meaning’
Where does meaning get its fix? A response to Rachel Malik’s ‘Fixing meaning’ & Replyby Howard Feather and Rachel Malik / RP 128 (Nov/Dec 2004) / Extras
Exchange on Hegel’s racism
by Joseph McCarney and Robert Bernasconi / RP 119 (May/Jun 2003) / ExtrasInstitutional critique-by-numbers
A reply to Esther Leslieby Dominic Willsdon / RP 111 (Jan/Feb 2002) / Extras
Levinas and the Right
With Reply to Stoneby Howard Caygill and Nick Stone / RP 106 (Mar/Apr 2001) / Extras