Contributor Archive: Radical Philosophy
RP at Spike Island
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web Content
Radical Philosophy will have a stall this Saturday selling the latest issue and discounted back issues of the journal in the Artists’ Books and Zine Fair at Spike Island, Bristol: “Again, A Time Machine is a fluid tour of new commissions and archival presentations drawn from the 27 year history of Book Works, a London based contemporary [...]
Radical Philosophy Conference 2011 Programme
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web Content
Friday 21 October 2011 Columbia University, New York (Note: Click on session titles for abstracts) 9.00–9.30 – Registration 9.30–9.45 – Introductions: Gayatri Spivak, Peter Osborne, Etienne Balibar 9.45–11.15 – Opening Plenary: Postcolonial Worlds 1 Chair: Gayatri Spivak ‘Bilingual Thoughts on Knowledge and Action’ Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Workshop on Andean Oral History, Bolivia) ‘On the Question [...]
Radical Philosophy Conference 2011
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web Content
Friday 21st October 2011, 9am – 7.30pm. Venue: Room 311 School of Social Work Columbia University 1255 Amsterdam Avenue & 121 Street Map Sessions: Postcolonial Worlds ∙ Representing Capitalism ∙ Biocapital and Security ∙ Temporalities of Crisis ∙ Politics of Information ∙ Speakers: Claudia Aradau – RP/International Relations, King’s College London Souleymane Bachir Daigne – [...]
Opening Plenary: Postcolonial Worlds 1
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Abstracts: ‘Bilingual Thoughts on Knowledge and Action’ Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Workshop on Andean Oral History, Bolivia) The talk will concentrate on aymara concepts such as taypi, ch’ixi, pachakuti, tari and others, reflecting on the aymara modes of knowledge of the pacha (space/time) and on the collective and individual relations with the cosmos through action. A [...]
Parallel Session 2: Politics of Information
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Abstracts ‘Speculative Realism As Symptom: Computationalist Ideologies’ David Golumbia (English, Virginia Commonwealth University) The theoretical movement called by its adherents Speculative Realism has at its center a 2008 volume by Quentin Meillassoux called After Finitude. This book is said by some to have provided a devastating critique of ‘correlationism’, a term for a philosophical error [...]
Parallel Session 1: Biocapital and Security
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Abstracts ‘Capitalist Resilience’ Mark Neocleous (RP/Politics, Brunel University, London) The paper will take up the recent rise of resilience as a concept. Resilience has come to the fore as an idea under which security measures are being enacted and the war on terror is being planned for. The paper explores why this has happened by [...]
Parallel Session 1: Representing Capitalism
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Abstracts ‘Is Representation Possible Without Reification?’ Tim Bewes (English, Brown University) In his famous essay on reification, Lukács writes that thought and existence are ‘aspects of one and the same real historical and dialectical process’. What are the implications of this statement for the thought-form known as reification? Taking issue with other recent attempts to [...]
Closing Plenary: Postcolonial Worlds 2
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Abstracts ‘Caring about the Universal?’ Souleymane Bachir Daigne (Philosophy, Columbia University) Emmanuel Levinas has written that the postcolonial world (he actually said “decolonized”) is “de-westernized” but also (therefore?) “dis-oriented”. By that he meant that innumerable cultures considered equivalent in a postcolonial global world cannot truly meet without some sense of the universal. The questions I [...]
Parallel Session 2: Temporalities of Crisis
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Abstracts ‘On Not Knowing Greek’ Antonia Birnbaum (Philosophy, University of Paris 8 ) For the Greek tradition, crisis is associated with kairos; together they point to a decisive moment. Kairos is the difficult art of seizing a situation, its sum of uncertainty and unforeseeability, the moment where a decisive judgment will have the most impact. [...]
New Radical Philosophy Website
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web Content
Welcome to the new website for Radical Philosophy, the online home of the journal of socialist and feminist philosophy. As well as updating the way the website looks and works, we have added every item of content from our back issues to our online archive, from the very first Radical Philosophy published in Spring 1972 [...]
RP at Spike Island
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web ContentRadical Philosophy will have a stall this Saturday selling the latest issue and discounted back issues of the journal in the Artists’ Books and Zine Fair at Spike Island, Bristol: “Again, A Time Machine is a fluid tour of new commissions and archival presentations drawn from the 27 year history of Book Works, a London based contemporary [...]
Radical Philosophy Conference 2011 Programme
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web ContentFriday 21 October 2011 Columbia University, New York (Note: Click on session titles for abstracts) 9.00–9.30 – Registration 9.30–9.45 – Introductions: Gayatri Spivak, Peter Osborne, Etienne Balibar 9.45–11.15 – Opening Plenary: Postcolonial Worlds 1 Chair: Gayatri Spivak ‘Bilingual Thoughts on Knowledge and Action’ Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Workshop on Andean Oral History, Bolivia) ‘On the Question [...]
Radical Philosophy Conference 2011
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web ContentFriday 21st October 2011, 9am – 7.30pm. Venue: Room 311 School of Social Work Columbia University 1255 Amsterdam Avenue & 121 Street Map Sessions: Postcolonial Worlds ∙ Representing Capitalism ∙ Biocapital and Security ∙ Temporalities of Crisis ∙ Politics of Information ∙ Speakers: Claudia Aradau – RP/International Relations, King’s College London Souleymane Bachir Daigne – [...]
Opening Plenary: Postcolonial Worlds 1
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web ContentAbstracts: ‘Bilingual Thoughts on Knowledge and Action’ Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Workshop on Andean Oral History, Bolivia) The talk will concentrate on aymara concepts such as taypi, ch’ixi, pachakuti, tari and others, reflecting on the aymara modes of knowledge of the pacha (space/time) and on the collective and individual relations with the cosmos through action. A [...]
Parallel Session 2: Politics of Information
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web ContentAbstracts ‘Speculative Realism As Symptom: Computationalist Ideologies’ David Golumbia (English, Virginia Commonwealth University) The theoretical movement called by its adherents Speculative Realism has at its center a 2008 volume by Quentin Meillassoux called After Finitude. This book is said by some to have provided a devastating critique of ‘correlationism’, a term for a philosophical error [...]
Parallel Session 1: Biocapital and Security
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web ContentAbstracts ‘Capitalist Resilience’ Mark Neocleous (RP/Politics, Brunel University, London) The paper will take up the recent rise of resilience as a concept. Resilience has come to the fore as an idea under which security measures are being enacted and the war on terror is being planned for. The paper explores why this has happened by [...]
Parallel Session 1: Representing Capitalism
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web ContentAbstracts ‘Is Representation Possible Without Reification?’ Tim Bewes (English, Brown University) In his famous essay on reification, Lukács writes that thought and existence are ‘aspects of one and the same real historical and dialectical process’. What are the implications of this statement for the thought-form known as reification? Taking issue with other recent attempts to [...]
Closing Plenary: Postcolonial Worlds 2
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web ContentAbstracts ‘Caring about the Universal?’ Souleymane Bachir Daigne (Philosophy, Columbia University) Emmanuel Levinas has written that the postcolonial world (he actually said “decolonized”) is “de-westernized” but also (therefore?) “dis-oriented”. By that he meant that innumerable cultures considered equivalent in a postcolonial global world cannot truly meet without some sense of the universal. The questions I [...]
Parallel Session 2: Temporalities of Crisis
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web ContentAbstracts ‘On Not Knowing Greek’ Antonia Birnbaum (Philosophy, University of Paris 8 ) For the Greek tradition, crisis is associated with kairos; together they point to a decisive moment. Kairos is the difficult art of seizing a situation, its sum of uncertainty and unforeseeability, the moment where a decisive judgment will have the most impact. [...]
New Radical Philosophy Website
by Radical Philosophy / 2011 / Web ContentWelcome to the new website for Radical Philosophy, the online home of the journal of socialist and feminist philosophy. As well as updating the way the website looks and works, we have added every item of content from our back issues to our online archive, from the very first Radical Philosophy published in Spring 1972 [...]
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