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Karmelo Bermejo, The Grand Finale. Bank Loan Granted to an Art Gallery Used to Pay a Firework Display at the Closing Ceremony of Art Basel Miami Beach, 2009, video (details) – Liverpool Biennial, 2010. With kind permission of the artist.
Editorial collective
Claudia Aradau, Matthew Charles,
David Cunningham, Howard Feather,
Peter Hallward, Esther Leslie, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne,
Stella Sandford, Chris Wilbert
Contributors William I. Robinson
is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
His most recent book is Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
Richard seymour
is the author of The Liberal Defence of Murder (2008) and The Meaning of David Cameron (2010). He is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, a blogger at Lenin’s Tomb and an occasional columnist.
Robin blackburn
teaches in the sociology department at the University of Essex, and at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of Age Shock: How Finance is Failing Us (Verso, 2006).
Étienne balibar
is Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Paris X, Nanterre, and Distinguished Professor of Humanities, University of California, Irvine.
His latest book in English is French Philosophy Since 1945, co-edited with John Rajchman (The New Press, 2010).
Stella sandford
teaches philosophy at the CRMEP at Kingston University London. Her latest book is Plato and Sex (Polity, 2010).
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond
is a physicist and epistemologist, Professor Emeritus, University of Nice–Sophia Antipolis. His most recent books are Quoi sert la science? (Bayard, 2008) and La science n’est pas l’art (Hermann, 2010).
Andrew barry
is Reader in Geography at Oxford University. He is co-editor of The Technological Economy (Routledge, 2005) and a special issue of Economy and Society, Gabriel Tarde (2007).
Commentary
The Global Capital Leviathan
William i. Robinson ……………………………………………………………………………. 2
David Cameron’s Tea Party
Richard Seymour ……………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Alternatives to Austerity: The Need for a Public Utility Finance System
Robin blackburn ………………………………………………………………………………. 10dOSSiER from Structure to Rhizome: Transdisciplinarity in french Thought (1)
Introduction
Peter Osborne ………………………………………………………………………………….. 15
Structure: Method or Subversion of the Social Sciences?
Étienne balibar ………………………………………………………………………………… 17
Sex: A Transdisciplinary Concept
Stella Sandford ………………………………………………………………………………… 23
Science: The Invisible Transdisciplinarity of French Culture
jean-marc lévy-leblond …………………………………………………………………… 31
Networks
andrew barry …………………………………………………………………………………… 35REviEWS
Rob Chapman, Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular HeadJulian Palacios, Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd: Dark Globe Michele Mari, Rosso Floyd
howard Caygill…………………………………………………………………………………. 42
Martin Heidegger, The Phenomenology of Religious Life
andrew mcGettigan …………………………………………………………………………. 45
Bruce C. Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen, eds, Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Second-Order Systems TheoryAndrew Pickering, The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future
jon Goodbun …………………………………………………………………………………… 48
Richard Menary, ed., The Extended Mind
benjamin james lozano ………………………………………………………………….. 52
Tim Morton, The Ecological Thought
Kate Soper ………………………………………………………………………………………. 55
Hervé Juvin, The Coming of the Body
Nina Power ………………………………………………………………………………………. 57
Thomas Müntzer, Sermon to the Princes