Contributor Archive: Nathan Brown
The irony of anatomy
Basquiat’s poetics of black positionality
by 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…
There …
188 Reviews
by Nathan Brown, Harrison Fluss, Douglas Murphy, Benjamin James Lozano, Raymond Geuss, Jason Read, Suzanne Cataldi Laba and Chris Wilbert / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / Reviews
Tristan Garcia Form and Object: A Treatise on Things
Nathan Brown
Knox Peden Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze
Harrison Fluss
Nadir Lahiji ed. Architecture against the Post-Political: Essays in Reclaiming the Critical Project
Nadir Lahiji ed. The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture
Douglas Murphy
Ole Bjerg, Making Money: The Philosophy …
Speculation at the crossroads
by Nathan Brown / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / Review
Tristan Garcia, Form and Object: A Treatise on Things, trans. Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2014. 488 pp., £85.00 hb., £24.99 pb., 978 0 74868 149 5 hb., 978 0 74868 150 1 pb.
In 2011, the publication of The Speculative Turn drew together discrepant realist and materialist philosophical projects …
Occupy Oakland
by Nathan Brown / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / News
We live in a time when tents have become the singular weapon of the people which power cannot tolerate, and against which it does not know how to defend itself. The bureaucrats are in shambles; the ‘city’ and its ‘police’ are at each other’s throats; middling reformists have no idea where to position …
NEWS: Occupy
by Nathan Brown / 2011 / Web Content
Occupy Oakland
Nathan Brown
We live in a time when tents have become the singular weapon of the people which power cannot tolerate, and against which it does not know how to defend itself. The bureaucrats are in shambles; the ‘city’ and its ‘police’ are at each other’s throats; middling reformists have no idea where …
Red years: Althusser’s lesson, Rancière’s error and the real movement of history
Dossier: The Althusser–Rancière Controversy
by Nathan Brown / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Article, Dossier, The Althusser–Rancière Controversy
The dissolution of the organizational forms which are created by the movement, and which disappear when the movement ends, does not reflect the weakness of the movement, but rather its strength. The time of false battles is over. The only conflict that appears real is the one that leads to the destruction of …
155 Reviews
by Jon Beasley-Murray, Nathan Coombs, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Alessandra Tanesini, Nathan Brown and Tom Eyers / RP 155 (May/Jun 2009) / Reviews
Patrick Barrett, Daniel Chavez and César Rodríguez-Garavito, eds, The New Latin American Left: Utopia Reborn Jon Beasley-Murray
Dayan Jayatilleka, Fidel’s Ethics of Violence: The Moral Dimension of the Political Thought of Fidel Castro Nathan Coombs
Christian Marazzi, Capital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, On Reason: Rationality in …
154 Reviews
by Nathan Brown, Nina Power, Harriet Evans, David Owen and Jeremy Gilbert / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009) / Reviews
Martin Hägglund, Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life Nathan Brown
Axel Honneth, Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory Axel Honneth, Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea, with Judith Butler, Raymond Geuss and Jonathan Lear Nina Power
Xudong Zhang, Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decadeof the Twentieth Century …
The Substance of Thought, Cornell University, NY, 10–12 April 2008
by Nathan Brown / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008) / Conference Report
The inorganic open
Nanotechnology and physical being
by Nathan Brown / RP 144 (Jul/Aug 2007) / Article
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…
There …
188 Reviews
by Nathan Brown, Harrison Fluss, Douglas Murphy, Benjamin James Lozano, Raymond Geuss, Jason Read, Suzanne Cataldi Laba and Chris Wilbert / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / ReviewsTristan Garcia Form and Object: A Treatise on Things
Nathan Brown
Knox Peden Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze
Harrison Fluss
Nadir Lahiji ed. Architecture against the Post-Political: Essays in Reclaiming the Critical Project
Nadir Lahiji ed. The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture
Douglas Murphy
Ole Bjerg, Making Money: The Philosophy …
Speculation at the crossroads
by Nathan Brown / RP 188 (Nov/Dec 2014) / ReviewTristan Garcia, Form and Object: A Treatise on Things, trans. Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2014. 488 pp., £85.00 hb., £24.99 pb., 978 0 74868 149 5 hb., 978 0 74868 150 1 pb.
In 2011, the publication of The Speculative Turn drew together discrepant realist and materialist philosophical projects …
Occupy Oakland
by Nathan Brown / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / NewsWe live in a time when tents have become the singular weapon of the people which power cannot tolerate, and against which it does not know how to defend itself. The bureaucrats are in shambles; the ‘city’ and its ‘police’ are at each other’s throats; middling reformists have no idea where to position …
NEWS: Occupy
by Nathan Brown / 2011 / Web ContentOccupy Oakland
Nathan Brown
We live in a time when tents have become the singular weapon of the people which power cannot tolerate, and against which it does not know how to defend itself. The bureaucrats are in shambles; the ‘city’ and its ‘police’ are at each other’s throats; middling reformists have no idea where …
Red years: Althusser’s lesson, Rancière’s error and the real movement of history
Dossier: The Althusser–Rancière Controversy
by Nathan Brown / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Article, Dossier, The Althusser–Rancière Controversy
The dissolution of the organizational forms which are created by the movement, and which disappear when the movement ends, does not reflect the weakness of the movement, but rather its strength. The time of false battles is over. The only conflict that appears real is the one that leads to the destruction of …
155 Reviews
by Jon Beasley-Murray, Nathan Coombs, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Alessandra Tanesini, Nathan Brown and Tom Eyers / RP 155 (May/Jun 2009) / ReviewsPatrick Barrett, Daniel Chavez and César Rodríguez-Garavito, eds, The New Latin American Left: Utopia Reborn Jon Beasley-Murray
Dayan Jayatilleka, Fidel’s Ethics of Violence: The Moral Dimension of the Political Thought of Fidel Castro Nathan Coombs
Christian Marazzi, Capital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, On Reason: Rationality in …
154 Reviews
by Nathan Brown, Nina Power, Harriet Evans, David Owen and Jeremy Gilbert / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009) / ReviewsMartin Hägglund, Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life Nathan Brown
Axel Honneth, Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory Axel Honneth, Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea, with Judith Butler, Raymond Geuss and Jonathan Lear Nina Power
Xudong Zhang, Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decadeof the Twentieth Century …
The Substance of Thought, Cornell University, NY, 10–12 April 2008
by Nathan Brown / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008) / Conference ReportThe inorganic open
Nanotechnology and physical beingby Nathan Brown / RP 144 (Jul/Aug 2007) / Article