E-SUPPLEMENT TO THE JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS THEORY
The following is an interview with the famed Continental philosopher Giorgio Agamben conducted by journalist Antonio Gnolio. Originally published in La Repubblica on May 15, 2016. the interview is translated from the Italian by Ido Govrin, whose bio is given at the end. It is translated with permission of La Repubblica. “I believe in the link […]
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first installment, published on Dec. 19, 2016, can be found here. In Writing Degree Zero, Barthes suggests disengaging from literary language by creating “a colorless writing, freed from all bondage to a pre-ordained state of language.”[1] He says “writing at the zero degree is basically […]
The following is the first of a two-part series. In his preface to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucault asks the authors’ forgiveness for describing their book as the first book of ethics written in France in a long time. As the chair of philosophy at the newly founded Centre Expérimental de Vincennes (University of […]
The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The link to the first portion can be found here. The link to the second is here. Time Renewed: A Theo-Politics of Contretemps If the conquest of capital, as a Marxish read suggests, congeals in the subsuming of space, social relations, nature, and even the […]
The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The link to the first portion can be found here. As the source of productivity, time rendered as quantifiable and rectilinear not only orders the social and political to accumulation but orients and shapes the human subject to this experience as well. Its disjointed time, […]
The following is the first installment of a three-part series. In his long-awaited interjection into the debates on the future of Marxism after the collapse of Soviet state communism, Jacques Derrida introduces the notion of contretemps.[1] It is a concept that appears amid his call for a New International to bear the legacy of critique […]
Badiou, Alain and Gauchet, Marcel. What Is To Be Done?: A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy. Translated by Susan Spitzer. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2016. ISBN: 1509501703. Hardback, paperback, e-book, 168 pages. Alain Badiou and Marcel Gauchet’s transcripted dialogue, What Is To Be Done?, could not have come at a more […]