Past issues
issue 41: special issue on fearless speech, philosophy & journalism
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Essays
Free Speech Fearless Speech and the Problem of Parrhesia
All this Fearless Speaking is Really Fearful Screaming
Political Parrhesia and the State’s Rhetoric in Iran
Kopenawa’s Shamanic Parrhesia: Wasp Spirits vs. White Climate Epidemic
When the Witnesses in War stop waiting for a Necrotic Peace: A Contemplation on Nelson Maldonado’s Against War
The Transparency of War Photography
Forms of Truth-Telling. Parrhesia and Documentary
“Carceral Archipelago”: An Abolitionist Dialogue
Posthought: parrhesia graphomania scenius
Issue 40
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Essays
Michel Serres: Thinking Beyond Boundaries
How Serres Thinks
Michel Serres: The “Formative Notebooks” — 1960-1974stella harvey and david webb
The History of Truth: Serres, Canguilhem, Foucault
The Scientific Roots of Serres’s Philosophy of Time
His Master’s Voice: Michel Serres and the Ethics of Noise
‘Of a Functional Value of the Idea of God’: Michel Serres, Religion, and the Beauty of Mathematics
De-escalation, Reserve and Invention: Michel Serres on the Natural Contract and Law
Issue 39
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Features
Foucault and Information Theory: On Message or Noise? (1966)
Message or Noise?Christopher O'Neill
The Fracture of CyberneticsJames Kelly
In Memorium: Bill Ross
Essays
Fluctuatio Animi: On the Role of ‘Vacillation of Mind’ in Spinoza’s Ethics
Dissonance and Illusion in Nietzsche’s Early Tragic Philosophy
Being Without One: Deleuze And The Medievals On Transcendental Unum
Review Essay
Issue 38
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Features
The State, Philosophy, and the Tyranny of the Logos: An Introduction to François Châtelet’s “Classical Greece, Reason, and the State.”
Classical Greece, Reason, and the StateAdam E. Foster
Who is country? A Hermeneutic Strategy Toward Philosophical Responsiveness in Australia
Articles
Artistic Agency and the Painting of Sensation: Francis Bacon’s Challenge to the Standard Theory of Action
Figures of the Monstrous in Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy
Rancière and the Question of Crisis
Paradoxes of Equality: Jacques Rancière’s Politics and Nonhumans
Waltende Souveränität: Prevailing, Swaying, Sovereignty. Heidegger, Heraclitus, Derrida
From Heidegger to Marx: Rethinking Philosophical Humility
A Cartesian Ethical Narrative
Review Essay
Issue 37
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Features
The Law of Obligation, Aboriginal Ethics: Australia Becoming, Australia Dreaming
The Tasks of Political PhilosophyNatalie J. Doyle
An Interdisciplinarity Without MetaphysicsBrynn McNab, Jeremy R. Smith and Luka Stojanovic
Essays
Of Other Histories: Philosophical Archaeology, Historiology, and Paradigmatology
The Event of the New: Thinking Emergent Creativity with Deleuze and Whitehead
The Differend and the Paradox of Contempt
Stasis: Civil War, Revolution, and Destitution in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer-series
Review Essays
Issue 36: Special Issue on Bergson
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Editors' Introduction
Essays
Bergson and the history of vitalism
The Discreet Charm of Hippocratism: Archaic Revival or Avant-Garde Vitalism?
Bergson, Lovejoy and Radical Vitalism
Vitalism, Individuation, and an Image for Life- Bergson contra Driesch
Actuality of Bergson’s vitalism: Bergson and contemporary Biology
Bergson’s vitalism, between spiritualism and pan-psychism
Sewall Wright, Leading Geneticist, Reader of Bergson, and Almost Bergsonian
Bergson on Panpsychism
Bergson and the Fringes of the Psyche: Between Spiritualism and Spiritism
New perspectives on the implications of Bergsonian vitalism
Issue 35
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Features
Essays
“Principles of Association of Ideas” to “Quasi-cause”: How Deleuze Adapts Hume
Transcendence Through Language: Emmanuel Levinas and the Philosophical Approach to Ethics
From Restricted to General Political Economy: Derrida and Marx on Meaning and Value
Nail’s Lucretius: Strong Misreading and Whig History
Review Essays
Issue 34: In Memoriam Bernard Stiegler
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Editors' Introduction
Features
Technologies of Memory and ImaginationAshley Woodward, Amélie Berger Soraruff
The Theatre of Individuation: Phase-shift and Resolution in Simondon and HeideggerKristina Lebedeva
Suffocated Desire, or How the Culture Industry Destroys the Individual: Contribution to a Theory of Mass ConsumptionJohann Roussow
The Uncanniness of Thought and the Metaphysics of PenelopeArne De Boever, Greg Flanders, Alicia Harrison
On Abbas Kiarostami’s Close UpArne De Boever
Interview
Essays
Prostheses of Desire: On Bernard Stiegler’s New Critique of ProjectionArne De Boever, Greg Flanders, Alicia Harrison
Algorithmic Catastrophe—The Revenge of Contingency
Interview: For a Philosophy of Technology in ChinaGeert Lovink interviews
(Neuro)plasticity, Epigenesis and the Void
The Pharmacology of Addiction
Reviews
Issue 33
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Features
Essays
Rancière’s Poetics of Knowledge
Neuroaesthetics and Critique
Politics that Does Not Command: Reconsidering Rancière’s Opposition between Politics and Policing
The Use of Ears: Agamben Overhearing Derrida Overhearing Heidegger
The Univocity of Substance and the Formal Distinction of Attributes: The Role of Duns Scotus in Deleuze’s Reading of Spinoza
Fore Me, This Fellow Speaks! Rancière and Plebian Equality
Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Issue 32: Special Issue on Spinoza
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Essays
Something of it remains’: Thought, Individuation and the Eternity of the Mind
Guyau’s Spinoza: Between Epicureanism and Stoicism
Spinoza: A Synthesis of Epicureanism and StoicismFederico Testa
Freedom as Overcoming the Fear of Death: Epicureanism in the Subtitle of Spinoza’s Theological Political Treatise
A System of Freedom and Joy – Herder on the Traces of Spinoza: The two editions of God, Some Conversations and their relation to the EthicsKirk Turner
Rational and Affective Genesis of Sociability: Balibar’s Reading of Spinoza
Humility, Acquiescentia and Subordination: A Spinozist Response to Jean Hampton’s Feminist Kantianism
Spinoza’s Compendium of the Grammar of the Hebrew Language
The Mother of All Prejudices: Teleology and Normativity in Spinoza
Spinoza’s Theory of ThoughtKirk Turner
Becoming Concrete: Spinoza’s Third Kind of KnowledgeKirk Turner
Individual Identity in SpinozaGil Morejón
Natural Right and the Failure to Calculate: The Paradox of the Slave in Spinoza’s Tractatus-Theologico Politicus
Review
Issue 31: Special Issue on Bachelard
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Editor's Introduction
Essays
The Metaphysics of Dust
Reformation and the Seven SinsMatthew Devine and Paul Cortois
Gaston Bachelard looks at Albert Flocon’s ‘Castles in Spain’
Surrationalism after Bachelard: Michel Serres and Le Nouveau Nouvel Esprit Scientifique
How Rhythm Operates in the Work of Gaston Bachelard and Henri Bergson
Towards an Interdisciplinary Anthropology? The Transformative Epistemologies of Bergson, Bachelard, and Simondon
When Memory Flows into Reason: Outline of an Epistemology Symmetrized
Gaston Bachelard’s Philosophy of Science: Between Project and Practice
The Two Bachelards of Louis Althusser
The New Axiomatic Method: Bachelard on the Meaning and Deformation of Concepts
Review
Issue 30
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Editor's Introduction
Features
Review Panel: The Work of Moira Gatens
Reflections on Imagination and Embodiment in the Work of Moira Gatens, 1983-2008
Thinking Without Monsters: The Role of Philosophy in Moira Gatens
Re-visioning Benedict de Spinoza and George Eliot through the Work of Moira Gatens
Essays
Issue 29
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Features
The Philosophy of MorphogenesisJon Roffe and Nick B. de Weydenthal
Technologies of Memory and ImaginationAshley Woodward and Amélie Berger Soraruff
Saussurean Terontology: What Derrida did not Read in the Course in General LinguisticsDavid Maruzzella
Essays
Logocentrism? Foucault’s Late Response to Derrida
What is Political Rationality?
What does it Mean to Make up the Mind (οὕτω διανοεῖσθε)?
The Pharmacology of Addiction
Reviews
Issue 28
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Features
Review Panel: The Work of Russell Grigg
If I hadn’t seen Russell I would have been fucked’
Russell’s Choice
Wellbeing, Morality, and the Aim of Psychoanalysis
Being an Analyst
Essays
Issue 27
Issue 26
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Features
Progress and the Death Drivea
What is an Image? Form as a Category of Meaning in Philosophical Anthropology
Review Panel: The Work of Max Deutscher
Philosophy and Judgment: Listening to Max Deutscher
Max Deutscher: Original and Enduring Themes
Response
Reviews
Nature, History and “Critique of Violence” in The Thin Red Line (1998)
Relational Ontology in Nietzsche: An Introduction
A Response to Sheehan’s Attempted Paradigm Shift in Heidegger Studies
The Schlock of the New: Badiou, Duchamp, and the Everyday Miracle
Polemical Speech and the Struggle for Recognition
Effects of “Phantasmatic Truth”: On the Reading of Albert Camus in Jacques Derrida’s The Death Penalty Seminars
Issue 25
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Features
(Neuro)plasticity, Epigenesis and the Void
From “L’inexistence divine”Nathan Brown
What is a Diagram (for a Sign)?
Essays
Polemic as Logic in the Work of Alain Badiou
Lukács and Nietzsche: Revolution in a Tragic Key
How Do We Live Here? Abyssal Intimacies in Jean-Luc Nancy’s La ville au loin
Axiomatic Set Theory in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari: A Critique
Reviews
Issue 24
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Features
Thoughts on the Unthinkable
The Irreducible
Hannah Arendt and Self-Forgiveness: In Search of a Magic Spell
Derrida and the Philosophical History of Wonder
Legacies of German Idealism: From the Great War to the Analytic/Continental Divide
Essays
Time, Causality and Character in Descartes’ Meditations
Deleuze’s Secret Dualism? Competing Accounts of the Relationship between the Virtual and the Actual
Imagine! Sartre with Ryle
Hermeneutic Truth as Dialogic Disclosure: A Gadamerian Response to the Tugendhat Critique
Alterity and the Materinal in Adoptee Phenomenology
Styling against Absolute Knowledge in Derrida’s Glas
“The Critical Activity” of Vulnerability
Being-in-the-world, Temporality and Autopoiesis
Human-in-the-last-instance? The Concept of “Man” between Foucault and Laruelle
Bataille and the Erotics of the Real
Language and Meaning in the Ethics. Or, Why Bother With Spinoza’s Latin?
Issue 23
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Editor's Introduction
Features
“March 18, 1986,” from Alain Badiou, Malebranche: The Seminars of Alain Badiou (Being 2 – the Theological Figure, 1986)Jason E. Smith
Freud according to CézanneAshley Woodward, Jon Roffe
The Fracture of a Kantian Antinomy: Machiavelli and SpinozaDave Mesing
The Uncanniness of Thought and the Metaphysics of PenelopeArne De Boever, Greg Flanders, Alicia Harrison
Essays
Veracity and Pragmatism in Nietzsche’s On Truth and Lies
Transformations: Malabou on Heidegger and Change
Algorithmic Catastrophe – The Revenge of Contingency
Review Essay
Review
Issue 22
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Features
Essays
A Cataclysm of Truth from a Crisis of Falsehood’: Reading Habermas on Calvino
Marxism and Money in Deleuze and Guattari’s Capitalism and Schizophrenia: On the Conflict Between the Theories of Suzanne de Brunhoff and Bernard Schmitt
What an Apparatus is Not: On the Archeology of the Norm in Foucault, Canguilhem, and Goldstein
Biopolitics and Community of Life: Between Naturalism and Animism
Review Essays
Reviews
(Re)Treating Master-bation. Leo Bersani, Thoughts and Things
The Recovery of the One. Katerina Kolozova, Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy
Mort à Discredit: Otium, Negotium, and the Critique of Transcendental Miserabilism. Bernard Stiegler, Disbelief and Discredit, volumes I-III
Issue 21
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Editor's Introduction
Features
Anarchist All the Way Down: Walter Benjamin’s Subversion of Authority in Text, Thought and Action
Freud’s Other Legacy
Propositions, Objects, Questions
What Need, What Metaphysics?
Essays
Humour as the Inverted Sublime: John Paul’s Laughter within Limitations
Foucault’s Madmen
The New Apophatic Universalism: Deconstructive Critical Theories and Open Togetherness in the European Tradition
Foucault’s Forgotten Hegelianism
Same-Sex Marriage: Zero Tolerance
Nietzsche’s Negative View of Freedom
Albert Camus and the Ethics of Moderation
The Law of Becoming and the Shackles of Sufficient Reason in Quentin Meillassoux’s Hyper-Chaos
Hegel, “Totality,” and “Abstract Universality” in the Philosophy of Theodor Adorno
The Fate of Leo, the Grovelling Nazi in Images of a Relief and the Transcendence of Evil
Issue 20
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Editor's Introduction
Features
Prostheses of Desire: On Bernard Stiegler’s New Critique of ProjectionArne De Boever
Interpretation of the General Introduction to Chapter VII
On Abbas Kiarostami’s Close UpArne De Boever
Hegel’s Cogito: On the Genetic Epistemology of Critical Metaphysics
“History is the Spectre Haunting Modern Society”: Temporality and Praxis in Guy Debord’s Hegelian Marxism
Criterion Creation: A Metaepistemological Problem in Perspective
The Body as Proffer, An Involuntary ‘Here I am!’
Reviews
Daniel Colucciello Barber, Deleuze and the Naming of God: Post-Secularism and the Future of Immanence
Anthony Paul Smith, A Non-Philosophical Theory of Nature: Ecologies of Thought
Finding Common Ground with Jeremy Gilbert
François Laruelle, Dictionary of Non-Philosophy
Andreas Vrahimis, Encounters Between Analytic and Continental Philosophy
Ian James, The New French Philosophy
Issue 19
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Articles
Another Order of Time: Towards a Variable Intensity of the NowKris Pender
Letter on Walter BenjaminChristian Hite
Decision and Undecidability of the Event in Being and Event I and IIAlyosha Edlebi
The Case of Wagner Against the Grain: The Disagreement Between Nietzsche and Adorno, and its Relevance Today
Vattimo, Nihilism and Secularisation: The ‘Trojan Horse’ Effect of Christianity
Beatnik Brothers? Between Graham Harman and the Deleuzo-Whiteheadian Axis
Diagrammatic Thought: Two Forms of Constructivism in C.S. Pierce and Gilles Deleuze
Pahl on Hegel’s Emotional Reason
How Spirit Feels
Who’s Afraid of Dialectical Transition? Comments on Katrin Pahl, Tropes of Transport
Changing the Landscape of Emotion Through Hegel’s Phenomenology
Hegel and the Affective Turn: Response to McCumber, Angelova, Howard and Kim
Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark, Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation. University of Chicago Press, 2013
Rejecting the Dream of Purity: Sonia Kruks, Simone De Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity. Oxford University Press, 2012
Remarks on Poutianien: An Alternative (to a) Response
Issue 18
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Features
Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism
Humanism and Solidarity
Attachment to Life, Understanding Death: Nietzsche and D.H. Lawrence
Symposium: Kevin Hart
Essays
Vomit Apocalypse; or, Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude
Critical History: Foucault after Kant and Nietzsche
At First Blush: The Politics of Guilt and Shame
Beyond Habit, The Cultivation of Corporeal Difference
The Philosophical Concepts of Meat and Flesh: Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty
The Key to the Critique of Taste: Interpreting §9 of Kant’s Critique of Judgment
Review
Issue 17
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Essays
Of StructionTravis Holloway and Flor Méchain
The Artificial Intelligence of Sense: The History of Sense and Technology After Jean-Luc Nancy (By way of Gilbert Simondon)Arne De Boever
Jean-Luc Nancy: An Existential CommunismArne De Boever
Experience and the Anachronistic Present
Freud, Hegel and Philosophy After the Copernican and French Revolutions: Thoughts On Rebecca Comay’s Mourning Sickness: Hegel And The French Revolution
The Uses Of Disenchantment: Remarks On Rebecca Comay’s Mourning Sickness: Hegel And The French Revolution
Hegel: Non-metaphysical, Post-metaphysical, Post-traumatic (Response To Lumsden, Redding, Sinnerbrink)
The Nadir Of Ooo: From Graham Harman’s Toolbeing to Timothy Morton’s Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities Press, 2013)
The Demon Of Analogy: Simon O’Sullivan, On The Production Of Subjectivity: Five Diagrams Of The Finite-infinite Relation (Palgrave, 2012)
To Desire, Nevertheless, The Alternative: Joshua Kates, Fielding Derrida. Philosophy, Literary Criticism, History, And The Work Of Deconstruction (Fordham, 2008)
Christina Howells And Gerald Moore (Eds.), Stiegler And Technics (Eup, 2013)
Issue 16
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Features
In the Footsteps of Hermes: The Meaning of Hermeneutics and SymbolismMichael Marder
Crossing Ways of Thinking on Graham Harman’s System and My OwnMark Allan Ohm
Tristan Garcia and the Thing-in-Itself
Badiou and Mallarmé: The Event and the PerhapsAlley Edlebi
Essays
Reviews
“Capitalism’s Californian Revolution”: Yann Moulier Boutang’s Cognitive Capitalism
‘Declares by the Void…’: Bruno Bosteels, Badiou and Politics. Duke University Press, 2011, and AJ Bartlett, Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths. Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
François Laruelle, Théorie Générale Des Victimes. Mille Et Une Nuits 2012.
Hasana Sharp, Spinoza And The Politics Of Renaturalisation. University Of Chicago Press, 2011
Issue 15
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Essays
Deleuze, Ruyer And Becoming-Brain: The Music of Life’s Temporality
The Baffling “Nature” of Time
Heidegger and Hegel: The Time of Life & The Time of Life-Philosophy
The Future Of The Future: Koyré, Kojevè, And Malabou Speculate On Hegelian Time
Time, Philosophy, And Chronopathologies
The Eternal Return Of The Same: Nietzsche’s ‘value-free’ Revelation of All Values
The Pulse Of Chronos: Historical Time, The Eternal And Timelessness In The Platonic Gathering
The End of Time
Reviews
Issue 14
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Essays
Interview: From Libidinal Economy To The Ecology Of The SpiritArne De Boever
The Pulse of Phenomenology
No Life Is Bare, The Ordinary Is Exceptional: Giorgio Agamben And The Question Of Political Ontology
Ennobled Colonialism And Counter-revolution: The Thermidorian Thrust Of Legal Positivism In Kant And Tocqueville
The ‘Signifier-in-Relation’, The ‘Signifier-in-Isolation’, and The Concept of the ‘Real’ in Lacan
Reviews
Issue 13
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Editor's Introduction
Features
The Role of Forgetting in our Experience of Time: Augustine of Hippo and Hannah Arendt
Varieties of Presence: Heidegger and Husserl’s Accounts of the Useful and the Valuable
Feeling, Thought and the Movement of Subjectivity
Suffocated Desire, or How the Cultural Industry Destroys the Individual: Contribution to a Theory of Mass ConsumptionJohann Roussow
Essays
The Politics of Aesthetic Affect – A Reconstruction of Habermas’ Art Theory
Sting of Reason
A Life without Affects and Passions: Kant on the Duty of Apathy
An Approach to the Affective Dimension of Speaking
Merleau-Ponty and the Affective Maternal-Foetal Bond
“Only the Present is our Happiness”: On Affects in Ancient Thought, In Memorium Pierre Hadot
“Dense Depths of the Soul”: A Phenomenological Approach to Emotion and Mood in the Work of Helene Schjerfbeck
Violent Affects: Nature and the Feminine in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist
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