radical philosophy

The jargon of finitude

After life

The will of the people

By ‘will of the people’ I mean a deliberate, emancipatory and inclusive process of collective self-determination. Like any kind of will, its exercise is voluntary and autonomous, a matter of practical freedom; like any form of collective action, it involves assembly and organization. Recent examples of the sort of popular will that I have in [...]

On Rem Koolhaas

Elasticity of demand

Walter Benjamin and the Red Army Faction, Part 3

Gramsci and the political

Walter Benjamin and the Red Army Faction, Part 2

Progressive politics in transnational space

Non-traduttore, traditore?

Flux and flurry

Walter Benjamin and the Red Army Faction, Part 1

Exile, war and democracy

The question we want to pose is this: how do we open up a field of democratic politics as we emerge from terror and war? In my exposition I will start where the previous speaker, Feinemann,1 left off as he endorsed the categories that Peron had taken from Clausewitz to move from the discussion of [...]

Counterterrorism legislation and the US state form

Orientalism in reverse

Aporias of free trade

‘The rush to the intimate’

‘All human beings are pregnant’

The materiality of the immaterial: Foucault, against the return of idealisms and new vitalisms

(T)error and poetry