Archive for the ‘Interview’ Category

Noam Chomsky

Freedom and power

RP 172 Noam Chomsky, Peter Hallward

Peter Hallward I’d like to start by asking you about some of your basic philosophical principles, starting with your understanding of human freedom and creativity. In the modern European tradition I’m most familiar with, freedom is a dominant philosophical theme from Descartes through Rousseau to Kant. With Kant we have an affirmation of absolute freedom [...]


Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf

Propaganda architecture

RP 154 David Cunningham, Jon Goodbun, Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf


Jeff Wall

Art after photography, after conceptual art

RP 150 Peter Osborne, Jeff Wall


Jean Oury

The hospital is ill

RP 143 David Reggio, Mauricio Novello, Jean Oury


Paolo Virno

Reading Gilbert Simondon: Transindividuality, technical activity and reification

RP 136 Paolo Virno, Jun Fujita Hirose


Kostas Axelos

Mondialisation without the world

RP 130 Kostas Axelos, Stuart Elden


Antonio Negri and Danilo Zolo

Empire and the multitude: A dialogue on the new order of globalization

RP 120 Antonio Negri, Danilo Zolo


Jean Laplanche

The other within - Rethinking psychoanalysis

RP 102 John Fletcher, Peter Osborne , Jean Laplanche

Jean Laplanche is the most original and philosophically informed psychoanalytic theorist of his day. Setting out from a critical reconstruction of Freudʼs terminology, he has developed a systematic rethinking of psychoanalytic metapsychology under the heading of a ʻgeneral theory of seductionʼ. Still best known in Britain for his early joint work with Pontalis – ʻFantasy [...]


Étienne Balibar

Conjectures and conjunctures

RP 097 Peter Osborne, Étienne Balibar


Agnes Heller

Post-Marxism and the ethics of modernity

RP 094 Simon Tormey, Agnes Heller


Kate Soper

An alternative hedonism

RP 093 Ted Benton, Kate Soper


Arthur C. Danto

Art and analysis

RP 090 Peter Osborne, Arthur C. Danto


Stuart Hall

Culture and Power

RP 086 Peter Osborne, Lynne Segal, Stuart Hall


Jacques Rancière

Democracy means equality

RP 082 Passages, Jacques Rancière


Aijaz Ahmad

Nationalism, Post-colonialism, Communism

RP 076 Gregory Elliott, Francis Mulhern, Peter Osborne


Drucilla Cornell

Feminism, deconstruction and the law

RP 073 Peter Osborne, Drucilla Cornell


Cornel West

American Radicalism

RP 071 Peter Osborne, Cornel West


Hans-Georg Gadamer

'Without poets there is no philosophy'

RP 069 Christiane Gehron, Jonathan Rée, Hans-Georg Gadamer


Jacques Derrida

The Deconstruction of Actuality

RP 068 Brigitte Sohm, Cristina de Peretti, Stephane Douailler, Patrice Vermeren, Emile Malet , Jacques Derrida


Judith Butler

Gender as Performance

RP 067 Peter Osborne, Lynne Segal, Judith Butler


Axel Honneth

Critical Theory in Germany Today

RP 065 Peter Osborne, Stale Finke, Axel Honneth


Edward Said

Orientalism and After

RP 063 Anne Beezer, Peter Osborne, Edward Said


István Mészéros

Marxism Today

RP 062 Chris Arthur , Joseph McCarney, István Mészaros


Slavoj Žižek and Renata Salecl

Lacan in Slovenia

RP 058 Peter Dews, Peter Osborne , Renata Salecl, Slavoj Žižek


Cornelius Castoriadis

RP 056 Peter Dews, Peter Osborne , Cornelius Castoriadis


Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

RP 054 Peter Osborne, Jonathan Rée, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak


Noam Chomsky

RP 053 Roy Edgley, Peter Osborne, Jonathan Rée, Deirdre Wilson, Noam Chomsky


Richard Rorty

From Philosophy to Post-Philosophy

RP 032 Wayne Hudson, Wim Van Reijen, Richard Rorty


Michel Foucault

Prison Talk

RP 016 J. J. Brochier, Michel Foucault


Michel Foucault

Film and Popular Memory

RP 011 Cahiers du Cinema, Michel Foucault