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The Decisive Moment (Left Turn), 2011.
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 kathryn yusoff
is Lecturer in Nonhuman Geography in the Environment Centre at Lancaster University.
Warren montag
is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is the author of Louis Althusser (Palgrave, 2003).
Nathan brown
teaches Critical Theory in the Department of English, University of California at Davis.
Bruno bosteels
is Profesor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. His latest books are The Actuality of Communism (Verso, 2011) and Badiou and Politics (Duke University Press, 2011.)
Stéphane douailler
teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Paris 8, Saint‑Denis. His books include Le philosophe et le grand nombre: Politiques du texte en fuite (2006).
Matthew charles
wrote his PhD on Walter Benjamin’s Goethean Kantianism in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) – now at Kingston University, where he currently teaches. He also teaches in the English department at the University of Westminister.
Commentary
The Valuation of Nature: The Natural Choice White Paper
Kathryn yusoff ……………………………………………………………………………………. 2dOSSiER The althusser–Rancière Controversy
Introduction to Althusser’s ‘Student Problems’
Warren montag ………………………………………………………………………………….. 8
Student Problems (1964)
louis althusser ………………………………………………………………………………….11
Red Years: Althusser’s Lesson, Rancière’s Error and the Real Movement of History
Nathan brown………………………………………………………………………………….. 16
Reviewing Rancière, or, the Persistence of Discrepancies
bruno bosteels …………………………………………………………………………………. 25
The Patient Cannot Last Long
Stéphane douailler …………………………………………………………………………… 32aRTiClE
Philosophy for Children
matthew Charles ……………………………………………………………………………… 36REviEWS
Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Literature
david Cunningham …………………………………………………………………………… 46
Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor and Cornell West, The Power of Religion in the Public SphereClayton Crockett, Radical Political Theology
Roland boer …………………………………………………………………………………….. 51
Niilo Kauppi, Radicalism in French Culture
Edward baring …………………………………………………………………………………. 54
Heiko Schmid, Wolf‑Dietrich Sahr and John Urry, eds, Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning
Ross E. adams …………………………………………………………………………………. 56
Adrian Mackenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Culture
Jon Goodbun …………………………………………………………………………………… 59
Encarnación Gutiérrez‑Rodríguez, Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor
Emilie Connolly ………………………………………………………………………………… 62
Andrew Kolin, State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush
Terrell Carver ……………………………………………………………………………………. 64ObiTUaRy
Margaret Whitford, 1947–2011