radical philosophy

More than everything

There are philosophical books, minor classics even, which are widely known and referred to, although no one has actually read them page by page… a nice example of interpassivity, where some figure of the Other is supposed to do the reading for us. Slavoj Žižek1 Allow me to be that figure (for now anyway), for [...]

The map is the territory

When I read the expression ‘The map is not theterritory’ for the first time, it occurred to me that it contained the quintessence of Anglo-American philosophyof common sense. The defiant insistence on a logic of representation, a common-sense belief in the evidence of an objective ‘reality’ that is prior to all mental representations or written [...]

Architectural Deleuzism

For many thinkers of the spatiality of contemporary capitalism, the production of all social space tends now to converge upon a single organizational paradigm designed to generate and service mobility, connectivity and flexibility. Networked, landscaped, borderless and reprogrammable, this is a space that functions, within the built environments of business, shopping, education or the ‘creative [...]

Rhizome (With no return)

In the invitation to speakers for the conference From Structure to Rhizome, we suggested that talks might set out by re-examining (and hence ‘re-founding’) texts that we qualified – in far too rapid and expeditious a fashion – as ‘founding’. But we did notmake this suggestion without being conscious of the difficulty involved in the [...]

Everybody thinks

In his 1968 book Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze famously stresses the violent, unnatural and shocking character of thought, counterposing his own anti-representational philosophy of difference to what he depicts as a dogmatic, humanist ‘image of thought’. In his own words: ‘“Everybody” knows very well that in fact men think rarely, and more often under [...]

Body without image: Ernesto Neto’s Anti-Leviathan

A very different context

Grounding Deleuze

Marx and the philosophy of time

Becoming everyone

Deleuze and cosmopolitanism

An immanent transcendental

Inside out

138 Reviews

Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism Steve Edwards Jacques Derrida, On Touching – Jean-Luc Nancy Ian James Matthias Fritsch, The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida Andrew McGettigan Michael Scott Christofferson, French Intellectuals against the Left:The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s [...]

Walking through walls

Paolo Virno

Refiguring the multitude

Democratic materialism and the materialist dialectic

Playing the code

With the progressive arrival of new media over the last century or so there appears a sort of lag time, call it the ‘thirty-year rule’, starting from the invention of a medium and ending at its ascent to proper and widespread functioning in culture at large. This can be said of film, from its birth [...]

Agonized liberalism