Nationalisms by, against and beyond the Indian state

Rahul Rao ~ RP 2.07 (Spring 2020), pp. 017–026 ~ Commentary

On 26 January 2020, thousands of people cheered as four women hoisted the Indian flag in Shaheen Bagh, a predominantly Muslim locality in New Delhi, which had become the epicentre of protests against the highly controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) that was passed in December 2019. Three of the women referred to as the dadis […]

Ideas are bulletproof

Andy Merrifield ~ RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) ~ Commentary

these struggles, which must rather be constructed as a project of political articulation. This is the task of communist organization. The important radical formations of the future will be those that bring to this old task a new fusion of networked and terrestrial connection to actualize the aspiration emblazoned on the banner carried at the […]

Compulsive Communism: A Reply to the Reply by Gregory Elliott and Peter Osborne

Tony Skillen ~ RP 059 (Autumn 1991) ~ Commentary

COMMENT Compulsive Communism A Reply to the Reply by Gregory Elliott and Peter Osborne Tony Skiffen In ‘Active Citizenship as Political Obligation’ (RP 58) I argue that it is in principle as legitimate for us to be required to perform ‘community service’ as it is for us to be subjected to compulsory taxation. Here I […]

Active Citizenship as Political Obligation: + Community as Compulsion? A Reply to Skillen on Citizenship and the State

Gregory Elliott, Tony Skillen and Peter Osborne ~ RP 058 (Summer 1991) ~ Article

Active Citizenship as Political Obligation Tony Skiffen Rousseau says in The Social Contract: As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the state is not far from its fall. When it is necessary to march out to […]

Justice or appropriation?: Indigenous claims and liberal theory

Ross Poole ~ RP 101 (May/Jun 2000) ~ Article

In recent years, political philosophers have paid increasing attention to the claims of indigenous people. [1] Not surprisingly, this attention has been greatest in those countries which were products of the European expansion into the rest of the world in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, […]

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 […]