French philosophy in the twentieth century was marked above all by two projects.footnote 1 For the sake of simplicity we might distinguish them with the labels of ‘subject’ and ‘science’. On the one ...

What is the secret behind Carl Schmitt’s contemporaneity and actuality? The argument relies on a broad endorsement of Schmitt’s interpretation of the age of the ius publicum—the body of maxims and ...

‘Film is like a battleground’ Sam Fuller, who once wrote a script footnote 1 for Douglas Sirk, said in a film by Jean-Luc Godard, who, shortly before he made A Bout de Souffle, wrote a rhapsody on ...

The London art community is very like a gymnasium. Every time you enter into discourse with your colleagues you first have to take a look around and see what posture everyone is adopting today. The ...

In this paper, I want to tackle some of the underlying issues around ‘post-Marxism’ in contemporary social theory, using just one exemplar of this emerging framework, namely Michèle Barrett’s book The ...

Three things have won conventional wars in this century; greater reserves of manpower, greater industrial potential and a reasonably functioning system of civilian administration. The strategy of the ...

Dr. Hobsbawm’s bookfootnote ＊ is addressed, its preface tells us, to “the intelligent and educated citizen, who is not merely curious about the past, but wishes to understand how and why the world has ...

On the south Caucasus.

From this Vazquez gleans her speculative material, which could be classified as the hidden life of things and people, a ...

In recent years its scale and ferocity have been brought to light by Thomas Deltombe, Jacob Tatsitsa and Manuel Domergue, ...