Robot Makes Free: The Leibnizian cryptowar of Norbert Wiener

Daniel Nemenyi ~ RP 2.14 (April 2023), pp. 3–20 ~ Article

The world of the future will … not [be] a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves. — Norbert Wiener, God and Golem, Inc. The word ‘robot’ entered the English language just over a hundred years ago, on 9 October 1922. It arrived with a Broadway production […]

Submarine state: On secrets and leaks

Daniel Nemenyi ~ RP 193 (Sept/Oct 2015), pp. 2–8 ~ Commentary

It’s not answerable to anyone, given it doesn’t exist in law; no minutes are kept; and it’s confidential. No citizen ever knows what is said within… These are decisions of almost life and death, and no member has to answer to anybody. – Yanis Varoufakis, description of the Eurozone [1] Recently in this journal Maïa […]

Rose-tinted lens: Hannah Arendt, dir. Margarethe von Trotta, Zeitgeist Films, New York, 2012, 113 minutes.

Daniel Nemenyi ~ RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014), pp. 60–63 ~ Reviews

Standing before a firing squad, in Margarethe von Trotta’s 1986 biopic Rosa Luxemburg, Luxemburg is taken in flashback to an image of herself as a child refusing to go to bed, intent on seeing the petals of a rose unfurl before her. A gun cracks, but no bullets are fired. It is when death is […]

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Daniel Nemenyi and Sigríður Torfadóttir Tulinius ~ RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) ~ Web Content

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Ma'an Abutaleb, Pau Viladot, Sigríður Torfadóttir Tulinius and Daniel Nemenyi ~ RP 179 (May/Jun 2013) ~ Web Content

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Looting the university: Sussex occupation over privatization

Fergus Kinghan and Daniel Nemenyi ~ RP 179 (May/Jun 2013), p. 60 ~ News

The recent campaign at the University of Sussex against the outsourcing of 235 non-academic jobs has confronted certain organizational and ideological limitations of the struggles in higher education so far. It constitutes an escalation of the anti-privatization movement in the UK. Porters, security, catering, maintenance, and other non-academic staff at the university face their employment […]

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Sigríður Torfadóttir Tulinius and Daniel Nemenyi ~ RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) ~ Web Content

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172 Reviews: Books Reviewed:Fredric Jameson, Representing ‘Capital’: A Reading of Volume OneMelissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds, The Affect Theory ReaderMichael Bailey and Des Freedman, eds, The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for ResistanceUniversity for Strategic Optimism, Undressing the Academy, or The Student HandjobDeborah Cook, Adorno on NatureIsabelle Thomas-Fogiel, The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self-Reference in Contemporary ThoughtPeter E. Gordon, Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, DavosSean Sayers, Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes

John Kraniauskas, Todd Cronan, Matthew Charles, Kate Soper, Wesley Phillips, David Winters, Jan Kandiyali and Daniel Nemenyi ~ RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) ~ Reviews

Reviews Inside the factory, and outFredric Jameson, Representing ‘Capital’: A Reading of Volume One, Verso, London and New York, 2011. 158 pp., £14.99 hb., 978 1 84467 454 1. Fredric Jameson’s latest book, published hot on the heels of a monograph on Hegel’s Phenomenology (The Hegel Variations, 2010) and a large collection of essays on […]