Past issues
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
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“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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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
We are continuing to backfill our archive of issues, anticipating the full archive to be available online by the end of 2023.