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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 andrew mcgettigan
holds a PhD from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP). He lives in North London and writes on the arts and education.
Mark neocleous
is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy and Head of Department of Politics & History at Brunel University,
London. He is the author of Critique of Security (2008).
Alain de libera
was Professor of the History of Medieval Philosophy, University of Geneva, 1997–2008, and is currently a director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Paris. He is the author of numerous books, translations and critical editions. His co-authored entry ‘Subject’ in the Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies was translated in RP 138 (July/August 2006).
François cusset
is the author of French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States (2008).
Michèle Riot-Sarcey
is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris VIII, Saint-Denis. Her books include Le réel de l’utopie (1998) and Histoire du féminisme (2002). She is the co-editor of 1848: La révolution oubliée (2008).
Éric alliez
is Professeur de Philosophie et Créations Contemporaines en Art at the University of Paris VIII, Saint-Denis, and a professor in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP),
Kingston University London. His essay, ‘What Is – and What is Not – Contemporary French Philosophy, Today?’ appeared in RP 161 (May/June 2010).
Commentary
‘New Providers’: The Creation of a Market in Higher Education
andrew mcGettigan …………………………………………………………………………… 2
The Smell of Power: A Contribution to the Critique of the Sniffer Dog
mark Neocleous …………………………………………………………………………………. 9dOSSiER From Structure to Rhizome: Transdisciplinarity in French Thought (2)
Subject (Re-/decentred)
alain de libera …………………………………………………………………………………. 15
Theory (Madness of)
François Cusset ……………………………………………………………………………….. 24
History (Problem with)
michèle Riot-Sarcey …………………………………………………………………………. 31
Rhizome (With no return)
Éric alliez …………………………………………………………………………………………. 36REviEwS
Maurice Blanchot, Political Writings, 1953–1993
howard Caygill…………………………………………………………………………………. 43
Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, eds, New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics
Keith ansell Pearson ………………………………………………………………………… 46
Chris Harman, Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx John Holloway, Crack Capitalism
howard Feather ……………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley and Gyan Prakash, eds, Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility
Caroline Edwards …………………………………………………………………………….. 51
Jeffrey Edward Green, The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship
william E. Scheuerman …………………………………………………………………… 54
Theodor W. Adorno, Guilt and Defence: On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany
Thomas Klikauer ………………………………………………………………………………. 56
Rebecca E. Karl, Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-century World
harriet Evans ……………………………………………………………………………………. 57
Geoffrey R. Skoll, Social Theory of Fear: Terror, Torture, and Death in a Post-Capitalist World
mark Neocleous ……………………………………………………………………………….. 60ObiTuaRy
A Mother’s Thought: Sara Ruddick, 1935–2011
lisa baraitser …………………………………………………………………………………… 61NEwS
For a New Europe: University Struggles Against Austerity