radical philosophy

Faust on film

Isn’t it an affront to Goethe to make a film of Faust, and isn’t there a world of difference between the poem Faust and the film Faust? Yes, certainly. But, again, isn’t there a whole world of difference between a bad film of Faust and a good one? (Walter Benjamin, Arcades Project, N1a, 4) Whilst the [...]

History (Problem with)

If the philosopher’s role is to forge concepts, the historian’s function is to provide proof of their pertinence. However, this presupposes that the historian uses the concept correctly, taking into consideration the conditions that formed it. A truly transdisciplinary approach makes this possible, thanks to its rigorous method, whereas an interdisciplinary approach is merely a juxtaposition [...]

Imaginative mislocation

The average Westerner … was wont to regard Japan as barbarous while she indulged in the gentle arts of peace: he calls her civilized since she began to commit wholesale slaughter on Manchurian battlefields. Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea, 1906 The controversy that erupted in March over the publication of Charles Pellegrino’s account of [...]

A sudden topicality

Marx, Nietzsche and the politics of crisis

The jargon of finitude

Marx and the philosophy of time

The Dreambird of Experience

Orgreave revisited

Paul Ricoeur, 1913–2005

History and the process of mourning in Hegel and Freud

Marx the uncanny? Ghosts and their relation to the mode of production

Naming, myth and history

The Politics of Time

Fashion in Ruins

Nietzsche: The Subject of Morality

The Weight of History

Who Made the French Revolution?

Lyotard and the Politics of Antifoundationalism

Forces of Production and Relations of Production in Socialist Society

Michel Foucault