The involution of photography

Andrew Fisher ~ RP 157 (Sep/Oct 2009) ~ Article

The involution of photography Andrew fisher As we settle further into the era of digital media and globalized visual culture, it might be tempting to think that photography holds no more than historical interest. Yet it continues to feature in debates with considerable significance for the present. [1] The terms by which it was negotiated […]

Who Was Oscar Masotta? Response to Derbyshire: Letter

Daniel R. Quiles ~ RP 164 (Nov/Dec 2010), p. 60 ~ Extras

Philip Derbyshire (‘Who Was Oscar Masotta? Psychoanalysis in Argentina’, RP 158) should be commended for his insightful consideration of the literary and psychoanalytic writings of Oscar Masotta, one of the most important Argentine intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. I would like to make a case for juxtaposing these texts with Masotta’s idiosyncratic and interdisciplinary […]

Captain Beefheart, 1941–2010: Vorticist Artist

Ben Watson ~ RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) ~ Obituary

Ben Watson assesses Beefheart's work as a protest against those who profit from the very separation of elite and mass music.