radical philosophy

The poetry and prose of the Russian elections

Between 10 December 2011, the day of the first mass protest against fraud in the recently held Russian parliamentary elections, and 4 March 2012, the day of the presidential vote, Moscow was a transformed place. The suffocating atmosphere of Putin’s rule was disturbed as if by a sudden breath of fresh air. People came onto [...]

Noam Chomsky

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 [...]

Demonomics

The critical ethos that stands behind much of the most impressive and important work on modern forms of power seems to have constructed its own prison. A free and open concept of power – the concept that has guided so many enlightening histories of the present – has revealed itself as yet another technology of [...]

Risked democracy

The delay involved in the publication of lectures or seminars has strange effects: what comes late and in a different time to its own is research and words which were caught up – more so than the books – in the historical circumstances of their elaboration; and the text that is finally published, with the [...]

Voting for hope

A salutary shock for bien pensant Europe

Democratic materialism and the materialist dialectic

Agonized liberalism

Geographies of violence and democracy

Remembering Adorno

Indeterminate! Communism, Goethe University of Frankfurt, 7–9 November 2003

A new world art?

The paradox of ‘the people’

Globalization and modern philosophy

The cosmopolitan paradox: Response to Robbins

In search of community

Dictators and democrats in Latin America

Constitutional state and democracy

Jacques Rancière

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