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Contributors leonore tiefer
is a New York City sexologist and clinical psychologist. A second, expanded edition of her Sex is Not a Natural Act, and Other Essays (Westview, 1995) is forthcoming next year.
Lynne segal
is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies,
Birkbeck College, University of London.
She is currently working on a new book, Afterwords: Identifications and Belongings.
Ray brassier
is Research Associate in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, working on a book on nihilism.
John roberts
is a Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at the University of Wolverhampton. His most recent book is The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday (Manchester University Press, 1997).
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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2003COMMENTARY
The Pink Viagra Story: We Have the Drug, but What’s the Disease?
Leonore Tiefer ……………………………………………………………………………………. 2ARTICLES
Lost Worlds: Political Memoirs of the Left in Britain
Lynne Segal ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Axiomatic Heresy: The Non-philosophy of François Laruelle
Ray Brassier …………………………………………………………………………………….. 24
The Ethics of Conviction: Marxism, Ontology and Religion
John Roberts …………………………………………………………………………………… 36REVIEWS
Jacques Derrida, Without Alibi
Philip Derbyshire ……………………………………………………………………………… 49
Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy
Alessandra Tanesini ………………………………………………………………………….. 51
Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Deleuze and Language
Alberto Toscano ……………………………………………………………………………….. 54
Dieter Freundlieb, Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy: The Return to Subjectivity
Stewart Martin ………………………………………………………………………………… 56
Timothy Bewes, Reification, or the Anxiety of Late Capitalism
Timothy Hall ……………………………………………………………………………………. 59
Manuel DeLanda, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy
Andrew Aitken …………………………………………………………………………………. 61CONFERENCE REPORT
[Anti-]Globalica: Conceptual and Artistic Tensions in the New Global Disorder, Wroclaw, Poland, 1 May, 2003