Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
173 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse, eds, Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death
Stephen J. Collier, Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics
Roberto Esposito, Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life
Ben Watson, Adorno for Revolutionaries
Tosaka Jun, Ideologie, Medien, Alltag: Eine Auswahl ideologiekritischer, kulturund medientheoretischer und geschictsphilosophischer Schriften
Jussi Parikka, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
Arthur Bradley, Originary Technicity: The Theory of Technology from Marx to Derrida
Costas Panayotakis, Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
Dominic Pettman, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines
Donna V. Jones, The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity
Timothy Bewes, The Event of Postcolonial Shame
Claudio Calia and Antonio Negri, Antonio Negri Illustrated: Interview in Venice
RP 173 Claudia Aradau, David Cunningham, Harry Harootunian, Caroline Bassett, Christopher Ruth, Jeremy Till, Jussi Parikka, Benjamin Noys, Françoise Vergès, Timothy S. Murphy
172 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Fredric Jameson, Representing ‘Capital’: A Reading of Volume One
Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds, The Affect Theory Reader
Michael Bailey and Des Freedman, eds, The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance
University for Strategic Optimism, Undressing the Academy, or The Student Handjob
Deborah Cook, Adorno on Nature
Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel, The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self-Reference in Contemporary Thought
Peter E. Gordon, Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos
Sean Sayers, Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes
RP 172 John Kraniauskas, Todd Cronan, Matthew Charles, Daniel Nemenyi, Kate Soper, Wesley Phillips, David Winters, Jan Kandiyali
171 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Timothy Bewes and Timothy Hall, eds, Georg Lukács: The Fundamental Dissonance of Existence: Aesthetics, Politics, Literature
Michael J. Thompson, ed.,Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Critical Essays
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger,On Historicising Epistemology: An Essay
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, An Epistemology of the Concrete: Twentieth-Century Histories of Life
Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
Paul Mattick, Business As Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism
Frank Furedi, On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence
Peter John et al., Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think
Gilles Saint-Paul, The Tyranny of Utility
Mandy Merck and Stella Sandford, eds, Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex
Bruno Bosteels, The Actuality of Communism
Colin Cremin, Capitalism’s New Clothes
Gerhard Richter: Panorama
RP 171 Drew Milne, Cristina Chimisso, Stephen Harper, David Chandler, Debora Halbert, Jason E. Smith, Nick Moss, John Timberlake
170 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Literature
Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor and Cornell West, The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Clayton Crockett, Radical Political Theology
Niilo Kauppi,Radicalism in French Culture
Heiko Schmid, Wolf-Dietrich Sahr and John Urry, eds., Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning
Adrian Mackenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Culture
Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor
Andrew Kolin, State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush
RP 170 David Cunningham, Roland Boer, Edward Baring, Ross E. Adams, Jon Goodbun, Emilie Connolly, Terrell Carver
169 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Djurdja Bartlett, FashionEast: The Spectre That Haunted Socialism
Jon Beasley-Murray Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America
Richard Immerman, Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
Jacob Rogozinski, The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis
Paul Virilio, The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject
Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
Turbulence, What Would It Mean to Win?
Team Colours, Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States
The Occupation Cookbook, or, the Model of the Occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
RP 169 Owen Hatherley, Philip Derbyshire, Steve Maher, Guillaume Collett, Douglas Spencer, Eeva Berglund, Gavin Grindon, Clara Pope
168 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Isabelle Stengers, Cosmopolitics I
Benjamin Noys, The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory
Peter Fenves, The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time
Andrea Cavalletti, Classe
Gail Day, Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory
David Toop, Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
Andrew Finlay, Governing Ethnic Conflict: Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace
Manuel De Landa, Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason
Bill Griffiths, Collected Earlier Poems (1966–1980)
RP 168 Michael Halewood, Knox Peden, Andrew McGettigan, Bruno Dias, Luke White, Mike Watson, Vivienne Jabri, Andrew Goffey, William Rowe
167 Reviews
RP 167 Howard Caygill, Keith Ansell Pearson, Howard Feather, Caroline Edwards, William E. Scheuerman, Thomas Klikauer, Harriet Evans, Mark Neocleous
‘Never a fascist’? Maurice Blanchot, Political Writings, 1953–1993, translated with an introduction by Zakir Paul, foreword by Kevin Hart, Fordham University Press, New York, 2010. 200 pp. Howard Caygill It is perhaps appropriate that this collection of political writings by Maurice Blanchot is marked by a troubling absence. Yet it is hard to join the editor [...]
166 Reviews
RP 166 Eeva Berglund, Matthew Charles, Alessandra Tanesini, Sas Mays, Mark Fisher, Anne McNevin, Joyce Goggin, Áine Kelly
Hans Radder, ed., The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and the Modern University Eeva Berglund Martha C. Nussbaum, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities Matthew Charles Susan Hekman, The Material of Knowledge: Feminist Disclosures Alessandra Tanesini Dawne McCance, Derrida on Religion: Thinker of Difference Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and [...]
165 Reviews
RP 165 Howard Caygill, Andrew McGettigan, Jon Goodbun, Benjamin James Lozano, Kate Soper, Nina Power, Nathan Coombs
Rob Chapman, Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head Julian Palacios, Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd: Dark Globe Michele Mari, Rosso Floyd Howard Caygill Martin Heidegger, The Phenomenology of Religious Life Andrew McGettigan Bruce C. Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen, eds, Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Second-Order Systems Theory Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches [...]
164 Reviews
RP 164 Jo Littler, Owen Hatherley, Douglas Spencer, C.E. McMenamin, Philipp Kleinmichel, Howard Feather
Brett de Bary, ed., Universities in Translation: The Mental Labor of Globalisation Andrew Ross, Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times Jo Littler Gevork Hartoonian, ed., Walter Benjamin and Architecture Owen Hatherley Reinhold Martin, Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism Again Douglas Spencer Judith Butler and Catherine Malabou, Sois mon [...]
163 Reviews
RP 163 Evan Calder Williams, David Nowell Smith, Timothy Hall , Andrew Leak , Nina Power, Benjamin Noys, Alexander R. Galloway
Gerald Raunig, A Thousand Machines: A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement Evan Calder Williams Jean-Luc Nancy, Identité: Fragments, franchises David Nowell Smith Robert B. Pippin, Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life Timothy Hall Nick Nesbitt, Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment Andrew Leak Sara Ahmed, The Promise [...]
162 Reviews
RP 162 Peter Hitchcock, Michael Newman, Mark McNally, David van Dusen , John Michael Roberts, Joe Hughes
David Chandler, Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance Stuart Elden, Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty R.B.J. Walker, After the Globe, Before the World Peter Hitchcock Perry Anderson, The New Old World Michael Newman Peter D. Thomas, The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism Mark McNally Jean-François Lyotard, Enthusiasm: The Kantian [...]
161 Reviews
RP 161 Esther Leslie, Alex Callinicos, Chris Wilbert, Mark Fisher, Antonio Venezia, Matthew Charles
Sylvère Lotringer, ed., The German Issue Gudrun Ensslin and Bernward Vesper, ‘Notstandgesetze von Deiner Hand’: Briefe 1968/1969 Esther Leslie G.A. Cohen, Why Not Socialism? Alex Callinicos Brett Buchanan, Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze Chris Wilbert Jim McGuigan, Cool Capitalism Mark Fisher Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza Antonio Venezia Erdmut Wizisla, [...]
160 Reviews
RP 160 John Kraniauskas, Jon Goodbun, Andrew McGettigan, Benjamin Noys, Melinda Cooper, David Chandler, John Timberlake
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth John Kraniauskas Adrian Parr, Hijacking Sustainability Jon Goodbun Gary Peters, The Philosophy of Improvisation, Mattin and Anthony Iles, eds, Noise & Capitalism Andrew McGettigan Daniel Heller-Roazen, The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations Benjamin Noys Michael Dillon and Julian Reid, The Liberal Way of War: Killing [...]
159 Reviews
RP 159 Alberto Toscano, Benjamin James Lozano, Caroline Bassett, Claudia Aradau, Alexander Astrov, Jason E. Smith, Ahmed Rajab
Gopal Balakrishnan, Antagonistics: Capitalism and Power in an Age of War Alberto Toscano Thomas Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self Alva Noë, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness Benjamin James Lozano Joanna Zylinksa, Bioethics in [...]
158 Reviews
RP 158 Andrew Goffey, Brian Rajski, Mark Neocleous, Mark Dorrian, Andrew Leach, Nathan Coombs, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Nina Power, Garin Dowd, Andrew McGettigan
Graham Harman, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics Andrew Goffey Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time 2: Disorientation Bernard Stiegler, Acting Out Brian Rajski Judith Butler, Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? Tarik Kochi, The Other’s War: Recognition and the Violence of Ethics Mark Neocleous Peter Sloterdijk, Terror from the Air Mark Dorrian Jeremy [...]
157 Reviews
RP 157 Harry Harootunian, Steve Hinchliffe, Douglas Spencer, Olena Kobzar, David Macey, Phillip Cole, Tony Venezia
István Mészáros, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century Harry Harootunian Sandra Harding, Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialitiesand Modernities Steve Hinchliffe Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson and Vassilis Tsianos, Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century Douglas Spencer Mark Neocleous, Critique of Security Olena Kobzar Thomas C. Hilde, ed., [...]
156 Reviews
RP 156 Alberto Toscano, Tiziana Terranova, Andrew Goffey, Alison Stone, Mick Smith, Timothy Chambers, Bojana Cvejic, Anindya Bhattacharyya, Craig Brandist
Stefan Jonsson, A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions Alberto Toscano Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: A Theory of Networks Tiziana Terranova Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain? Andrew Goffey Lisa Baraitser, Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption Alison Stone Damian F. White, Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal Mick [...]
155 Reviews
RP 155 Jon Beasley-Murray, Nathan Coombs, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Alessandra Tanesini, Nathan Brown, Tom Eyers
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
RP 154 Nathan Brown, Nina Power, Harriet Evans, David Owen, Jeremy Gilbert
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 [...]
153 Reviews
RP 153 Mark Kelly, Andrew McGettigan, Matthew Charles, Douglas Spencer
Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979 Mark Kelly Lin Ma, Heidegger on East–West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event Andrew McGettigan Samuel Weber, Benjamin’s -abilities Matthew Charles Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture within and against Capitalism Douglas Spencer Mastaneh Shah-Shuja, Zones of Proletarian Development John [...]
152 Reviews
RP 152 Peter Hallward, James Tobias, Bob Jessop, Garin Dowd, Josh Robinson, Pablo Lafuente
Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency Peter Hallward Christopher Kelty, Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software James Tobias Nicos Poulantzas, The Poulantzas Reader: Marxism, Law and the State Bob Jessop Peg Rawes, Space, Geometry and Aesthetics: Through Kant and towards Deleuze Garin Dowd Alastair Morgan, Adorno’s Concept of [...]
151 Reviews
RP 151 Christian Kerslake, Monique David-Ménard, Nina Power, Kaye Mitchell, David Macey, Peter Kapos
The zero of real conflict Monique David-Ménard, Deleuze et la psychanalyse: L’altercation, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2005. 186 pp., €22.00 pb., 2 13 055081 9. Christian Kerslake As its subtitle indicates, this book stages an ‘altercation’ between Deleuze and psychoanalysis. The psychoanalysis in question is that of Freud and Lacan. Monique David-Ménard’s first book, [...]
150 Reviews
RP 150 John Kraniauskas, Andrew McGettigan, Alison Stone, Guillermina Seri, Fabian Säfer
Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century John Kraniauskas Andy Hamilton, Aesthetics and Music Paul Hegarty, Noise/Music: A History Andrew McGettigan Amber Jacobs, On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis and the Law of the Mother Alison Stone Claudia Aradau, Rethinking Trafficking in Women: Politics Out of Security Guillermina Seri Christopher Goto-Jones, ed., Re-politicising [...]
149 Reviews
RP 149 Knox Peden, Peter Hallward, Robert Spencer, Steve Edwards, Gail Day, Jean-Paul Martinon
Julian Bourg, From Revolution to Ethics: May ’68 and Contemporary French Thought Knox Peden Alain Badiou, De Quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom? Circonstances Peter Hallward Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Robert Spencer John Roberts, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade Steve Edwards Matthew Beaumont, [...]
148 Reviews
RP 148 Stephen Zepke, Philip Derbyshire, Kimberly Hutchings, John Milios, Sean Sayers
Gerald Raunig, Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century Stephen Zepke Yannis Stavrakakis, The Lacanian Left Philip Derbyshire Christine Battersby, The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference Kimberly Hutchings Jacques Bidet, Exploring Marx’s ‘Capital’: Philosophical, Economic and Political Dimensions John Milios John Rawls, Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy Sean Sayers
147 Reviews
RP 147
Bruce Robbins, Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State Martin Ryle Roger Griffin, Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler Daniel Woodley Bonnie Mann, Women’s Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism,Postmodernism, Environment Kaye Mitchell Bracha L. Ettinger, The Matrixial Borderspace Nicola Foster Nikolas Kompridis, [...]
146 Reviews
RP 146 Liam O’Ruairc, David Macey, Harry Harootunian
Jean-Jacques Lecercle, A Marxist Philosophy of Language Simon Jarvis Henri Alleg, The Question David Macey Penelope J. Corfield, Time and the Shape of History Harry Harootunian Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis and Slavoj Žižek, eds, Lenin Reloaded:Toward a Politics of Truth Liam O’Ruairc
145 Reviews
RP 145 Knox Peden, David Cunningham, Ken Hirschkop, Christian Kerslake, Howard Feather, Françoise Vergès
Antonio Negri, The Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project Knox Peden Pascale Casanova, Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution Andrew Gibson, Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency David Cunningham Massimo Montanari, Food is Culture Ken Hirschkop Dave Boothroyd, Culture on Drugs: Narco-cultural Studies of High Modernity Christian Kerslake Noel Castree and [...]
