philosophy

Bauer, Marx and religion - David McLellan

Ret Marut — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:15:59 +0000

Keep on Smiling - questions on immaterial labour

Joseph K. — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:20:40 +0000

Toni Negri and Michael Hardt’s recent works, Empire and Multitude, have earned these authors great popularity in the Anglo-Saxon world. Negri is known in Italy for belonging to autonomia operaia in the ’70s and for being on the receiving end of political persecution by the Italian state at the end of that decade. His earlier work (above all Marx Beyond Marx) was a valid contribution to the understanding of the nature of capitalism and influenced many among us who sought an answer to Marxist objectivism and a theory of history based on class struggle. However, Negri’s earlier work circulated among a restricted public, via obscure publishers. The new Toni Negri for the ‘new’ era emerges in 2000 with Empire. A tome written with literature professor Michael Hardt, Empire was warmly welcomed even by the bourgeois press.

Théorie Communiste responds

Joseph K. — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:49:08 +0000

In Aufheben #11 we published a critique of our articles on ‘decadence’ (from Aufheben issues 2-4) by the French group Théorie Communiste (TC). In the following issue we published our reply to TC’s critique. Since then we have had a number exchanges with TC in which they responded to our reply.

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Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity - Slavoj Žižek

aacammy5 — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:50:18 +0000

According to a commonplace, Judaism (and Islam) is a "pure" monotheism, while Christianity, with its Trinity, is a compromise with polytheism; Hegel even designates Islam as THE "religion of sublimity" at its purest, as the universalization of the Jewish monotheism:

The parallax view: Karatani’s 'Transcritique. On Kant and Marx' - Slavoj Žižek

revol68 — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:38:28 +0000

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: THE PARALLAX VIEW

Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo - Slavoj Žižek

Joseph K. — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:36:12 +0000

Žižek draws on Giorgio Agamben's notion of Homo sacer - someone who is biologically alive but deproved of all rights - in order to understand the rationales and causes of the 'war on terror'.

Welcome to the desert of the Real - Slavoj Žižek

Joseph K. — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:34:19 +0000

[i]America's "holiday from history" was a fake: America's peace was bought by the catastrophes going on elsewhere.

Anarchism and the politics of ressentiment - Saul Newman

Joseph K. — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:00:10 +0000

[b]This essay critiques classical anarchism using Nietzsche’s concept of ‘ressentiment’ and Michel Foucault’s ideas on power.

Panopticism - Michel Foucault

Joseph K. — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:20:18 +0000

The following, according to an order published at the end of the seventeenth century, were the measures to be taken when the plague appeared in a town.

Creating a new public sphere, without the state - Paolo Virno

Joseph K. — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:50:20 +0000

[b]This interview illustrates the move amongst the post-Leninist Italian radical left towards an anarchist view of the state, as well as Virno’s insistence that the concept of ‘multitude’ does not replace the concept of ‘working class’ and his controversial assertion that fear and insecurity – which he calls ‘precarity’ – define the globalised world.

A brief history of the state of exception - Giorgio Agamben

Joseph K. — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:40:51 +0000

An excerpt from the 2005 book State of Exception which serves as a good introduction to Agamben’s recent work on the nature of state power/sovereignty, as well as his dense and difficult style (5,000 words).

Negri on Foucault

Joseph K. — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:02:07 +0000

[b]In this interview Negri discusses the influence of Michel Foucault on his work, stating how as the radical Italian left drifted towards vanguardist armed struggle after 1968 [i]“we understood that this military drift was something which the movements would not be concerned with; and that it was not only a humanly unbearable choice, but also

Intellectuals & Power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze

Joseph K. — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:13:05 +0000

This is a transcript of a 1972 conversation between the post-structuralist philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, which discusses the links between the struggles of women, homosexuals, prisoners etc to class struggle, and also the relationship between theory, practice and power (4,000 words).

Postscript on the Societies of Control - Gilles Deleuze

Joseph K. — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:15:44 +0000

[b]In this short essay Deleuze looks to move beyond Michel Foucault’s historical understanding of ‘disciplinary societies’, where power is exercised within discrete institutions, towards the concept of 'societies of control'.

Zizek

Joseph K. — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:41:38 +0000

Right, i know revol's a fan, and there's a couple of films/tv shows knocking about with him in (C4's Pervert's 'Guide to Cinema', the film 'Zizek!'), so wht not a thread.

On Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

libcom — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:04:22 +0000

Translated by Charles T. Wolfe. An earlier version of this essay appeared in Chimeres 17 (Paris, Fall 1992). It is printed in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Volume 18, Number 2, 1995, in honor of the late Felix Guattari. Hacked from it is printed form and publicized by korotonomedya in May 2002.

Spinoza's Anti-Modernity

libcom — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:58:05 +0000

Translated by Charles T. Wolfe. This article first appeared in Les Temps Modernes 46:539 (June 1991). It is printed in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Volume 18, Number 2, 1995. Hacked from it is printed form and publicized by korotonomedya in May 2002.And subsequently thieved by us. Thanks people!

1. Spinoza, the Romantic

Philosophy of Right

libcom — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:56:17 +0000

Philosophy of Right
G.W.F. Hegel

Translated by S.W Dyde

What is Ideology?

libcom — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:01:16 +0000

Source: Specters of Marx, the state of the debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International, translated by Peggy Kamuf, Routledge 1994

What is ideology? Can one translate with regard to it the logic of surviving that we have just glimpsed with regard to the patrimony of the idol, and what would be the interest of such an operation?