Posts tagged ‘Mark Neocleous’

Pre-emptive strike

by and / RP 179 (May/Jun 2013)

A response to ‘Resisting resilience’ As the editor of the new journal Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, published by Taylor & Francis, I am pleased to have a chance to respond to the ‘pre-emptive strike’ launched against the journal as a neoliberal ‘corporate-cum-academic dream’ in Mark Neocleous’s piece ‘Resisting Resilience’ (RP 178). First, it [...]


Resisting Resilience

by / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013)

I’m 24, in a horrible relationship, feeling stuck and alone. I met my boyfriend three years ago while I was struggling to find work after graduating. He was not only charismatic, ambitious and gorgeous, but supportive, too. I became infatuated. By the time I found out about his angry rages and subtle bullying, I had [...]


175 Reviews

Books Reviewed:

Malcolm Bull, Anti-Nietzsche

Hasana Sharp, Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization

Daniel Loick, Kritik der Souveränität

Mick Smith, Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World

Mark Neocleous and George S. Rigakos, eds, Anti-Security

Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries

Matt Ffytche, The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche

Keston Sutherland, Stupefaction: A Radical Anatomy of Phantoms

Steven Connor, A Philosophy of Sport


by , , , , , , , and / RP 175 (Sep/Oct 2012)

Parallel Session 1: Biocapital and Security

by / 2011

Abstracts ‘Capitalist Resilience’ Mark Neocleous (RP/Politics, Brunel University, London) The paper will take up the recent rise of resilience as a concept. Resilience has come to the fore as an idea under which security measures are being enacted and the war on terror is being planned for. The paper explores why this has happened by [...]


The Smell of Power

A Contribution to the Critique of the Sniffer Dog


by / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011)

On 8 July 2005, the day after the London bombings, the International Association of Chiefs of Police issued its new guidelines on the detection and prevention of suicide bombings. The IACP is the primary organization through which senior police executives across the globe try to coordinate their powers and practices, and it does this through [...]


167 Reviews

by , , , , , , and / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011)

‘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 [...]


War as peace, peace as pacification

by / RP 159 (Jan/Feb 2010)

To stress one’s own love of peace is always the close concern of those who have instigated war. Buthe who wants peace should speak of war. He shouldspeak of the past one … and, above all, he shouldspeak of the coming one.1 A remarkable consensus appears to have emerged onthe Left: that in the context [...]


158 Reviews

by , , , , , , , , and / RP 158 (Nov/Dec 2009)

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

by , , , , , and / RP 157 (Sep/Oct 2009)

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., [...]


137 Reviews

by , , , and / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006)

Mark Neocleous, The Monstrous and the Dead: Burke, Marx, Fascism Terry Eagleton Alexei Monroe, Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK Chris Thompson Cecilia Sjöholm, The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire Kaye Mitchell Michael Löwy, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjaminʼs ʻOn the Concept of Historyʼ Esther Leslie Nikolai Bukharin, Philosophical Arabesques Craig Brandist


135 Reviews

by , , , , , , and / RP 135 (Jan/Feb 2006)

Ellie Ragland and Dragan Milovanovic, eds, Lacan: Topologically Speaking Philip Derbyshire Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Briefweschsel, Band 2, 1938–1944 Roger Behrens Jack Reynolds, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity Howard Feather Chris Lawn, Wittgenstein and Gadamer: Towards a Post-Analytic Philosophy of Language Alessandra Tanesini Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works, Volume [...]


131 Reviews

by , , , , and / RP 131 (May/Jun 2005)

Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics Stewart Martin Jacques Rancière, The Philosopher and His Poor Mark Neocleous Andrew Feenberg, Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History Drew Milne Eli Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis Stephen Frosh [...]


130 Reviews

by , , , , , , and / RP 130 (Mar/Apr 2005)

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life John Kraniauskas Neil Lazarus, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies Janna Thompson, Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Justice Françoise Vergès Alessandra [...]


124 Reviews

by , , , , and / RP 124 (Mar/Apr 2004)

Louis Althusser, The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings Martin Halliwell and Andy Mousley, Critical Humanisms: Humanist/Anti-Humanist Dialogue Nina Power Leonard Lawlor, The Challenge of Bergsonism Michael Vaughan Mark Neocleous, Imagining the State John Kraniauskas Stanley Aronowitz and Peter Bratsis, Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered Mark Neocleous Ben Watson, Shitkicks and Doughballs Ian Patterson Bertell Ollman, [...]


119 Reviews

by , , , , , and / RP 119 (May/Jun 2003)

Kristin Ross, May ʼ68 and its Afterlives Daniel Bensaïd Penelope Deutscher, A Politics of Impossible Difference:The Later Work of Luce Irigaray Monica Mookherjee Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 2: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday Ben Highmore Gaston Bachelard, The Formation of the Scientific Mind Nina Power John McMurtry, Value Wars: The [...]


109 Reviews

by , , , , , , , , and / RP 109 (Sep/Oct 2001)

Ted Honderich, Philosopher: A Kind of Life David Macey Peter Osborne, Philosophy in Cultural Theory Jean-Jacques Lecercle Will Kymlicka, Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Alessandra Tanesini Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Neo-Avant-garde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 Andrew Fisher Stella Sandford, The Metaphysics of Love: Gender [...]


105 Reviews

by , , , , , and / RP 105 (Jan/Feb 2001)

Adriana Cavarero, Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood Carolyn Steedman Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left John Roberts Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive Victor Jeleniewski Seidler, Shadows of the Shoah: Jewish Identity and Belonging Esther Leslie Rebecca L. Spang, The Invention of [...]


104 Reviews

by , , , , , , , , and / RP 104 (Nov/Dec 2000)

G.A. Cohen, If Youʼre an Egalitarian, How Come Youʼre So Rich? Sean Sayers Lutz Koepnick, Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power Esther Leslie, Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism Giles Peaker Alexander García Düttmann, Between Cultures: Tensions in the Struggle for Recognition Peter Hallward Ross Poole, Nation and Identity Bruce Robbins Kimberly Hutchings, International Political Theory: [...]


96 Reviews

by , , , , , , and / RP 096 (Jul/Aug 1999)

Friedrich Schleiermacher, Hermeneutics and Criticism and Other Writings Terry Eagleton H.S. Harris, Hegelʼs Ladder, I: The Pilgrimage of Reason H.S. Harris, Hegelʼs Ladder, II: The Odyssey of Spirit Stephen Houlgate Christine Battersby, The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity Elin Diamond Theodor W. Adorno, Metaphysik: Begriffe und Probleme Alexander García Düttmann Simon [...]


89 Reviews

by , , , , , and / RP 089 (May/Jun 1998)

Jane Gallop, Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment Peter Benson Amitai Etzioni, The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society Finn Bowring Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory Stewart Martin Christine M. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity Meena Dhanda Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks Volume 2 Roger Simon Emmanuel Levinas, Proper Names Marianna Papastephanou Mark [...]