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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 imre szeman
is Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies and Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He is the author of After Globalization (2011, with Eric Cazdyn) and the co-editor of Cultural Theory: An Anthology (2010) and Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (2012).
John roberts
is Professor of Art and Aesthetics, University of Wolverhampton, and leader of its Research Group on Art, Critique and Social Practice. His most recent book is The Necessity of Errors (2011).
Peter osborne
is the Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy,
Kingston University London. His new book, Anywhere Or Not At All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art, will be published by Verso in April 2013.
Nicolas vieillescazes
is commissioning editor at Éditions Les Prairies ordinaires (Paris) and teaches in the Sociology Department at Université de Paris–Sorbonne. He is the co-editor, with Emmanuel Burdeau, of The Wire: Reconstitution collective (2011) and Tarantino déchaîné.
Commentary
What the Frack? Combustible Water and Other Late Capitalist Novelties
imre Szeman …………………………………………………………………………………….. 2aRTiClES
The Two Names of Communism
John Roberts …………………………………………………………………………………….. 9
More Than Everything: Žižek’s Badiouian Hegel
Peter Osborne ………………………………………………………………………………….. 19
Strategies of Distinction: Rancière’s Aisthesis and the Two Regimes of Art
Nicolas Vieillescazes …………………………………………………………………………. 26REViEwS
Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
Nina Power …………………………………………………………………………………….. 33
Bruno Bosteels Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis and Religion in Times of Terror
Philip derbyshire ……………………………………………………………………………… 35
Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile
Jon Goobun …………………………………………………………………………………….. 37
Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain DamageCatherine Malabou, Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity
hannah Proctor ………………………………………………………………………………… 40
Frank Ruda, Hegel’s Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’
Jason E. Smith…………………………………………………………………………………. 43
Kari Weil, Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now? Samantha Hurn, Humans and Other Animals: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions
Chris wilbert …………………………………………………………………………………….. 46
Albert Atkin, The Philosophy of RaceGeorge Yancy, Look, a White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness
Shannon w. Sullivan ………………………………………………………………………… 48
Ash Amin, Land of Strangers
Kostas maronitis………………………………………………………………………………. 50
Lisa Siraganian, Modernism’s Other Work: The Art Object’s Political Life
Todd Cronan …………………………………………………………………………………….. 52
Alex Loftus, Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology
Nik heynen ………………………………………………………………………………………. 54ObiTuaRiES
An English Marxist: John Mepham, 1938–2012
Kate Soper ………………………………………………………………………………………. 57
Neil Smith, 1954–2012