Posts tagged ‘modernity’

Capitalist Epics

Abstraction, totality and the theory of the novel


by / RP 163 (Sep/Oct 2010)

In our recent highlight from RP163, David Cunningham examines the relationship between Lukács’ ‘The Theory of the Novel’ and his later Marxist works, and its asks how we are to read this work today.


A sudden topicality

Marx, Nietzsche and the politics of crisis


by / RP 160 (Mar/Apr 2010)

Marx, Nietzsche and the politics of crisis


Notes on the photographic image

Dossier: Undoing the Aesthetic Image, with an introduction by Peter Osborne


by / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009)

The jargon of finitude

Or, materialism today


by / RP 155 (May/Jun 2009)

Walter Benjamin and the Red Army Faction, Part 3

by / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009)

Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf

Propaganda architecture


by , , and / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009)

Flux and flurry

Stillness and hypermovement in animated worlds


by / RP 152 (Nov/Dec 2008)

The impossibility of gender in narratives of China’s modernity

by / RP 146 (Nov/Dec 2007)

War on latency: On some relations between surrealism and terror

Dossier: Spheres of action – Art and politics, with introduction by Peter Osborne


by / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006)

The Dreambird of Experience

Utopia, Possibility, Boredom


by / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006)

Nihilism and faith

Rose, Bernstein and the future of Critical Theory


by / RP 134 (Nov/Dec 2005)

Quartering the millennium

by / RP 116 (Nov/Dec 2002)

Cracking the cultural code

Methodological reflections on Kracauer’s ‘The Mass Ornament’


by / RP 099 (Jan/Feb 2000)

The significance of the twentieth century

by / RP 098 (Nov/Dec 1999)

The space of flows and timeless time

Manuel Castells’s The Information Age


by / RP 097 (Sep/Oct 1999)

Agnes Heller

Post-Marxism and the ethics of modernity


by and / RP 094 (Mar/Apr 1999)

Radical Conservatism, or, the Conservatism of Radicals

Giddens, Blair and the Politics of Reaction


by / RP 093 (Jan/Feb 1999)

The burden of our time

Hannah Arendt and the critique of political modernity


by / RP 092 (Nov/Dec 1998)

Time and the working mother

Kristeva’s ‘Women’s Time’ revisited


by / RP 091 (Sep/Oct 1998)

Critical reproblemization

Foucault and the task of modern philosophy


by / RP 091 (Sep/Oct 1998)

It was a matter of analyzing … the problemizations through which being offers itself to be, necessarily thought – and the practices on the basis of which these problemizations are formed. Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure 1 Michel Foucault is well known for having periodically redescribed his previous studies in light of his current [...]