radical philosophy

Red years: Althusser’s lesson, Rancière’s error and the real movement of history

The dissolution of the organizational forms which are created by the movement, and which disappear when the movement ends, does not reflect the weakness of the movement, but rather its strength. The time of false battles is over. The only conflict that appears real is the one that leads to the destruction of capitalism. François [...]

Between sharing and antagonism

London calling Why talk about communism today?* A first point everybody will be agreed upon: the spectre of communism is not haunting Europe, nor for that matter any other region of the world. The only place where ‘communism’ is a positive name for anything is China, where it designates the ruling party of one of [...]

Uncategorical imperatives

Thinking politically with Merleau-Ponty

Future culture

Primordial Being

Étienne Balibar

The German as pariah

Humanism and Nature

The Call of Nature

Ecology and Human Emancipation

The Inorganic Body and the Ambiguity of Freedom

Feminism, Humanism and Postmodernism

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Humanism = Speciesism

This paper1 is intended to form part of a more extended exploration of some key texts of Marx from the standpoint of the so-called ‘new’ social movements (though some of these pre-date the Marxist tradition itself!). Here, I shall be focussing on the early work of Marx – especially the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of [...]

‘Pure Lust’

Metaphor and Metaphysics

1984 and all that

The scapegoat

Discussion: Leninism versus proletarian self-emancipation; Laing’s social philosophy; The Trivialily of Althusser