Interview Archive
Claire Fontaine
Giving shape to painful things
by Claire Fontaine, Andrew Culp and Ricky Crano / RP 175 (Sep/Oct 2012)
Parisian artist Claire Fontaine is a fraud, a forgery, her name casually lifted from a generic brand of school notebooks, her existence only present in the art that bears her signature. She was first brought to life in 2004 by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill. She resides now in the neon gas, the video pixels, [...]
Noam Chomsky
Freedom and power
by Noam Chomsky and Peter Hallward / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012)
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
by Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Jon Goodbun and David Cunningham / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009)
Jeff Wall
Art after photography, after conceptual art
by Jeff Wall and Peter Osborne / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008)
Jean Oury
The hospital is ill
by Jean Oury, Mauricio Novello and David Reggio / RP 143 (May/Jun 2007)
Paolo Virno
Reading Gilbert Simondon: Transindividuality, technical activity and reification
by Paolo Virno and Jun Fujita Hirose / RP 136 (Mar/Apr 2006)
Kostas Axelos
Mondialisation without the world
by Kostas Axelos and Stuart Elden / RP 130 (Mar/Apr 2005)
Antonio Negri and Danilo Zolo
Empire and the multitude: A dialogue on the new order of globalization
by Antonio Negri and Danilo Zolo / RP 120 (Jul/Aug 2003)
Jean Laplanche
The other within – Rethinking psychoanalysis
by Jean Laplanche, Peter Osborne and John Fletcher / RP 102 (Jul/Aug 2000)
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
by Etienne Balibar and Peter Osborne / RP 097 (Sep/Oct 1999)
Agnes Heller
Post-Marxism and the ethics of modernity
by Agnes Heller and Simon Tormey / RP 094 (Mar/Apr 1999)
Aijaz Ahmad
Nationalism, Post-colonialism, Communism
by Gregory Elliott, Francis Mulhern and Peter Osborne / RP 076 (Mar/Apr 1996)
Drucilla Cornell
Feminism, deconstruction and the law
by Drucilla Cornell and Peter Osborne / RP 073 (Sep/Oct 1995)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
‘Without poets there is no philosophy’
by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Christiane Gehron / RP 069 (Jan/Feb 1995)
Jacques Derrida
The Deconstruction of Actuality
by Jacques Derrida, Emile Malet, Patrice Vermeren, Cristina de Peretti and Brigitte Sohm / RP 068 (Autumn 1994)
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