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R a d i c a l p h i l o s o p h y
a j o u r n a l o f s o c i a l i s t a n d f e m i n i s t p h i l o s o p h yPublished by Radical Philosophy Ltd.www.radicalphilosophy.com
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Solidarity Vote for Middlesex Philosophy, Porto, 2010
Editorial collective
Claudia Aradau, Mat hew Charles,
David Cunningham, Howard Feather,
Peter Hal ward, Esther Leslie, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne,
Stel a Sandford, Chris Wilbert
Contributors haukur már helgason
teaches philosophy at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. He is a founding member of the experimental literary band Nýhil.
Alberto toscano
teaches in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London.
He is the author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Verso, 2010).
Matthew charles
recently completed a PhD at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, Speculative Experience and History: Walter Benjamin’s Goethean Kantianism.
Barbara cassin
is a director of research at CNRS (Centre Léon Robin, University of Paris–IV Sorbonne), author of L’ef et sophistique (1995) and editor of Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies (Seuil/Le Robert, 2004).
Philippe büttgen
is a director of research at CNRS (Laboratoire d’Études sur les Monothéismes). His books include Lire Michel de Certeau: ‘La Formalité des pratiques’ (with Christian Jouhaud von Klostermann, 2008).
Commentary
Inside a Charging Bull: Iceland, One Year On
haukur már helgason ……………………………………………………………………….. 2aRTiClE
Everybody Thinks: Deleuze, Descartes and Rationalism
alberto Toscano ………………………………………………………………………………… 8
Imaginative Mislocation: Hiroshima’s Genbaku Dome,
Ground Zero of the Twentieth Century
matthew Charles ……………………………………………………………………………… 18dOSSiER universities
The Performative without Condition, a University sans appel
Barbara Cassin and Philippe Büttgen ……………………………………………….. 31
The University and the Plan: Reflections from Vienna
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Case Study – From Fiasco to Carnival: The End of Philosophy at Middlesex?
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Occupation
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Westminster, Sussex, King’s…
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David Chandler, Hol ow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and ResistanceStuart Elden, Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of SovereigntyR.B.J. Walker, After the Globe, Before the World
Peter hitchcock ……………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Perry Anderson, The New Old World
michael Newman …………………………………………………………………………….. 52
Peter D. Thomas, The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism
mark mcNally …………………………………………………………………………………… 56
Jean-François Lyotard, Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History
david van dusen …………………………………………………………………………….. 57
Ben Fine, Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly
john michael Roberts ………………………………………………………………………. 59
Christian Kerslake, Immanence and the Vertigo of Philosophy: From Kantto Deleuze
joe hughes ……………………………………………………………………………………… 61NEwS
Beyond Copenhagen? World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, Cochabamba, 19–22 April 2010