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Beyond Barthes: Rethinking the phenomenology of photography

...don, 2004. 5. ^ See Victor Burgin, ‘Something about Photography Theory’, Screen, vol. 25, no. 1, January/February 1984, p. 62. This edition of Screen includes other articles making similar points, as in Simon Watney’s ‘Photography – Education – Theory’; see especially his comments on the redundancy of ontology for photographic teaching on p. 69. 6. ^ One should note, in this context, that psychoanalysis has come to prominence as a theoretical fram...

The politics of miscarriage

...squarely located in the dominant imagery and logic manifest in pregnancy greeting cards themselves, rather than the lack of an equivalent miscarriage range. It is precisely the depictions of pregnancy featured in greeting cards – where ‘being pregnant’ means ‘having a baby’ and ‘holding the future’ – that make miscarriage appear as a deviation from pregnancy’s proper path. And however banal or seemingly benign, the imagery and ‘noise’ around preg...

Generations of feminism

...57. ^ Rosemary Pringle and Sophie Watson, ʻ“Womenʼs Interests” and the Post-Structuralist Stateʼ, in Barrett and Phillips, eds, Destabilizing Theory, p. 65. 58. ^ Francis Mulhern (quoting Jonathan Rée) in Francis Mulhern, Introduction, The Present Lasts a Long Time: Essays in Cultural Politics, Cork University Press, Cork, forthcoming....

Massacre of the Innocents: Derrida and the Cambridge Dons;Waiter Benjamin Centenary; Women and the History of Philosophy; Singer Silenced; Philosophy for Children

...accounts of the affair were in Liberation (17 May) and Die Zeit (22 May). Jonathan Ree Waiter Benjamin Centenary Of all the figures of the intellectual left in the febrile German culture of the 1930s, Walter Benjamin is perhaps the one now most closely associated with the pathos of the times. From his almost total obscurity prior to the publication of Adorno’ s twovolume edition of his writings in 1955, Benjamin has emerged as the most celebrated...

Black Socrates?: Questioning the philosophical tradition

...y, with Homi Bhaba. I am particularly grateful for the careful comments of Jonathan Ree and Peter Osborne, although I don’t think I have fully responded to either of their criticisms. 2. See Hegel, ‘Tragedy and the Impiety of Socrates’, from Hegel on Tragedy, eds. A. and H. Paolucci (Harper and Row, New York, 1975), pp. 345-66; and Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, tr. W. Kaufmann (Vintage, New York, 1967); and ‘The Problem of Socrates’ , in Twilig...

Who are my peers?: The Research Assessment Exercise in Philosophy

...losophers opposed the award of a Cambridge honorary degree to Derrida (see Jonathan Rée, ʻMassacre of the Innocentsʼ, Radical Philosophy 62, Autumn 1992, pp. 61–2). Are such philosophers suitable to conduct a ʻpeer reviewʼ of the work of the followers of Derrida? Indeed, what constitutes a ʻpeerʼ group in a subject like philosophy? Questions like these must be answered before the title of ʻpeer reviewʼ can have any credibility. The panel, so it is...

Common senses: Deleuze and Lyotard between ground and form

...d verbal symbolism took off after the Second World War. [45] Our natures agree with each other by agreeing with Nature, something which our languages express phonetically. Phonetic naturalism can shed a light on the nature of a novelist’s style. From this perspective, the labour of style appears as one of the forms of engagement – ‘one of the manifestations of responsibility’, as Chastaing puts it. [46] This is because the writer receives and coll...

Empiricism and Racism

..., £8.95 hc, £4.95 pb J. Sayers, BioZogicaZ PoZitics, Tavistock, £4.95 pb Screen Reader 2, Cinema and Semiotics, SEFT, £4.95 pb H. Sherman and J. Wood, SocioZogy: TraditionaZ and RadicaZ Perspectives, Harper &Row, £5.95 pb S. Sontag (ed.), A Barthes Reader, Jonathan Cape, £15 hc P. Springborg, The ProbZem of Human Needs and the Critique of CiviZisation, AlIen and Unwin, £18 hc K. Tay 1or , The PoZiticaZ Ideas of the Utopian SociaZists, Frank Cass,...

Lost worlds: Political memoirs of the Left in Britain

..., whether to meet membership payments, in jeopardizing job promotions or careers, in remaining loyal even when unhappy about the frequently unexpected, often seemingly indefensible, reversals of policy decreed by the Soviet Union. However, as Hobsbawm notes, the boredom, bureaucracy, near robotic obedience required of members in the mid-century Communist Party did also mirror the manner, if not the minutiae, of the psychological conformity so hege...

New Racism . . . New Realism: Two Sides of the Same Coin

...of violence in the system. New realism and new racism are in fundamental agreement over the terms in which black people in Britain are to be discussed and their future decided. When two seemingly opposed sides in a power bloc share an agreed terrain in this manner, the result can be called ‘hegemony’. The transition from assimilation to inte33 gration represents an important change in the nature of racial hegemony. New realism and new racism are o...

If ontology, then politics: The sophist effect

...al discourse. How, then, does Cassinʼs contestation of the famously ʻmore Greek than the Greeksʼ perception of Presocratic philosophy offer the grounds for thinking the political? Early Greek philosophy develops a number of philosophical positions critical of ontology: the scepticism of Sextus Empiricus offers one particularly acute critique of the theory of being, and it is a criticism which has retained its force. However, within a post-Heidegge...

After life: De anima and unhuman politics

...man as it is of the ethical, the social and the political, then to what degree is it possible to conceive of something like an unhuman politics? Notes 1. ^ http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/roadmap. 2. ^ A long tradition of science fiction poses this question, from Camille Flammarion’s Lumen to Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris. 3. ^ Within the life sciences there is a tradition of ‘What is life?’ books, though these often remain rooted in a biological epist...

Non-traduttore, traditore?: Notes on postwar European Marxisms

...w of the stature and size of his oeuvre, Fredric Jameson can only muster three titles in French, three in German, two in Italian and four in Spanish. Perry Anderson, Terry Eagleton and David Harvey are done something approaching justice. (Anderson rates six in French, five in German, five in Italian and seven in Spanish; while the respective totals for Eagleton are one, seven, three and eight; and for Harvey zero, three, four and five.) The best r...

‘The rush to the intimate’: Counterinsurgency and the cultural turn

...ailed images from satellites, aircraft and drones are relayed to display screens in command centres and combat zones. According to one observer, staring at the brightly lit screens of the Command Post of the Future (CPOF) outside Fallujah was ‘like seeing Iraq from another planet’. [17] Mundane models are part of the same discourse of ‘object-ness’. In November 2004, before the second US assault on Fallujah, Marines constructed a large model of th...

Orgreave revisited: David Peace’s GB84 and the return to the 1980s

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Spinoza’s law: The epicurean definition of the law in the Theological Political Treatise

...amben’s conception of something that is outside the law, see Vardoulakis, Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka’s Laughter (Albany, NY: SUNY, 2016), where I discuss a similar argument in Agamben’s reading of Kafka’s ‘Before the Law.’ For a detailed argument about the rejection of an ‘outside’ to the law in Spinoza, see Vardoulakis, ‘Authority and the Law: The Primacy of Justification over Legitimacy in Spinoza’, in Spinoza’s Authority Volume II: Re...

Uncaptured desires: What affirms our political imaginaries?

...ve rationally and responsibly. 28 As Andrew Chitty points out, Marx also agreed that private property had a positive essence, because it liberated individual energies and creativity from communal constraints. 29 He also believed that one of the features of communism would be to restore property to individual workers. Nevertheless, while supporting human capacities, private property in capitalist society generated estranged forms. 30 The right to e...

Micropolitics: Leo Bersani and conflicts in contemporary feminism

...5, 648. 13. ^ Bersani, The Freudian Body, p. 39. 14. ^ Ibid., p. 92. 15. ^ Jonathan Dollimore, ʻSex and Deathʼ, Textual Practice, vol. 9, no. 1, 1995, p. 37. 16. ^ Bersani, The Freudian Body, pp. 9, 11. 17. ^ Ibid., p. 25. 18. ^ Ibid., p. 41. 19. ^ Dylan Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Routledge, New York, 1996, p. 92. 20. ^ I (try to) use the term ʻaporiaʼ in the rich sense that Gayatri Spivak brings to the term when...

Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx and Negativity

...he mark of estrangement. Notes Thanks are due to Gillnar Savran, Roy Swan, Jonathan Ree, and Roy Edgley. Page numbers bracketed in the text refer to the English translation of the 1844 Mss. in Karl Marx: Early Writings, translated by Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton, Harmondsworth, 1975. Sometimes the rendering has been changed after consulting the German text in Marx-Engels Werke, Erganzungsband, Erster Teil, Berlin 1968, and the translation...

Against security

...persons and things. Together they give us sine cura: to be without care, free from cares and untroubled. Securitas is consequently defined as freedom from concern and danger, or, looked at from a slightly different angle, safety and security. [12] Lest this appear to provide the taken-for-granted ʻpositiveʼ dimension to security, it is pertinent to note that the Oxford English Dictionary gives several examples of the way security was originally th...

Bankocracy: Greek money and the ‘new idea’ of Europe

...the possession of power by the possessing class. Foucault summarizes the three functions of Greek money: metathesis of power, simulacrum, social regulation. Contrasting with Cypselus’s reforms, Solon proceeds to the cancellation of debts, but refuses to redistribute land. In speaking of Solonian eunomia (good legislation), Foucault highlights that In this eunomia, this good and regular distribution, which replaced the unregulated and disruptive st...