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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 emma roe
is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. From 2004 to 2007 she was a Research Associate on the EU FP6 WelfareQuality research project.
Howard caygill
is a Professor in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. His new book, On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance, is forthcoming from I.B. Tauris in the autumn.
Stella sandford
is a Reader in the CRMEP,
Kingston University London. She is the author of Plato and Sex (2010). Her essay ‘The Incomplete Locke’ will appear as the Introduction to Étienne Balibar, Identity and Difference, forthcoming from Verso in September.
Andy merrifield
is an independent scholar currently working in the UK. His books include Magical Marxism (Pluto, 2011) and John Berger (Reaktion, 2012).
Commentary
Global Carcass Balancing: Horsemeat and the Agro-food Network
Emma Roe …………………………………………………………………………………………. 2aRTiClES
Philosophy and the Black Panthers
howard Caygill…………………………………………………………………………………… 7
Spontaneous Generation: The Fantasy of the Birth of Concepts in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Stella Sandford ………………………………………………………………………………… 15dOCumENT
Introduction
andrew mcGettigan …………………………………………………………………………. 27
On Theoretical Foundations: Theses on Brecht
Walter Benjamin ………………………………………………………………………………. 28COmmENT
Citizens’ Agora: The New Urban Question
andy merrifield ………………………………………………………………………………… 31REviEWS
Adrian Parr, The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
allan Stoekl ……………………………………………………………………………………… 36
Alexander R. Galloway, The Interface Effect
Seb Franklin …………………………………………………………………………………….. 39
Andrew Gibson, Intermittency: The Concept of His torical Reason in Recent French Philosophy
ian James ………………………………………………………………………………………… 41
Giacomo Marramao, The Passage West: Philosophy after the Age of the Nation State
david van dusen ………………………………………………………………………………. 43
Kate Schick, Gillian Rose: A Good Enough Justice
Simon Speck ……………………………………………………………………………………. 46
Miguel de Beistegui, Aesthetics after Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor
Josh Robinson …………………………………………………………………………………. 49
Lee Braver, Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger
Paul livingston ………………………………………………………………………………… 51
Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature
Guy Callan-Nardina Kaur ………………………………………………………………….. 54
Christian Borch, The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology
Claudia aradau…………………………………………………………………………………. 56ExChaNGE
Pre-emptive Strike: A Response to ‘Resisting Resilience’
david Chandler ………………………………………………………………………………… 58
A Reply
mark Neocleous ……………………………………………………………………………….. 59NEWS
Looting the University: Sussex Occupation over Privatization