Pieces by Eva von Redecker

Symbolic glue

Reivew of Roman Kuhar and David Paternotte, eds, Anti-Gender Campaigns
Roman Kuhar and David Paternotte, eds., Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilising Against Equality (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). 302pp., £85.00 hb., £27.95 pb., 978 1 78348 999 2 hb., 978 1 78660 000 4 pb. What fuels the success of authoritarian populism around the globe and how does the extreme right manage to hijack public […]

Anti-Genderismus and right‑wing hegemony

COMMENTARY Anti-Genderismus and right‑wing hegemony Eva von Redecker After incidents of pickpocketing and sexual harassment were reported to have taken place at the New Year’s Eve festivities in Cologne and Hamburg, and been associated with perpetrators of North African descent, public discourse in Germany turned blatantly racist. [1] This seemed to stand in stark contrast […]

175 Reviews: Books Reviewed:Malcolm Bull, Anti-NietzscheHasana Sharp, Spinoza and the Politics of RenaturalizationDaniel Loick, Kritik der SouveränitätMick Smith, Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural WorldMark Neocleous and George S. Rigakos, eds, Anti-SecurityKathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork ImaginariesMatt Ffytche, The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern PsycheKeston Sutherland, Stupefaction: A Radical Anatomy of PhantomsSteven Connor, A Philosophy of Sport

Reviews The future is subhumanMalcolm Bull, Anti-Nietzsche, Verso, London & New York, 2011. 256 pp., £14.99 hb., 978 1 85984 574 5. This is an intriguing book, and its principal thesis is highly provocative. My reaction to it is an ambivalent one: there are aspects of the book that are to be greatly welcomed, such […]