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Judith Butler: Laclau, Marx, and the Performative Power of Negation
Originally delivered at a conference in Paris in 2015, here Judith Butler discusses the work of philosopher Ernesto Laclau – who she describes as "one of the truly great thinkers in our lifetimes" – in relation to that of Marx, and to the power of the negative.
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Marxism and Hegel Reading List
A reading list on the relation between Hegel and Marx, two of philosophy's greatest thinkers. All 40% off (print books) and 60% off (ebooks) until January 4th.
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Chantal Mouffe Bookshelf
Complete your Mouffe bookshelf with this reading list!
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Fredric Jameson Bookshelf
Complete your Fredric Jameson bookshelf with this reading list! All 40% off (print books) and 60% off (ebooks) until January 4th.
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McKenzie Wark Bookshelf
Complete your McKenzie Wark bookshelf with this reading list! All 40% off (print books) and 60% off (ebooks) until January 4th.
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Jacques Rancière Bookshelf
Complete your Rancière bookshelf with this reading list!
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Agamben WTF, or How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic
Benjamin Bratton on why philosophy failed us in facing up to the pandemic, and why we need to rethink biopolitics as a matter of life and death.
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Born Under the Sign of Saturn
Susan Sontag introduces Walter Benjamin by dissecting his own words and the words of his peers. All through the inescapable lens of Benjamin's melancholy.
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Theodor Adorno on Expiry
Truly terrifying are the sleepless nights when time seems to contract and run fruitlessly through our hands. But what is revealed in such contraction of the hours is the reverse of time fulfilled.
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Theodor Adorno on Philosophy and Redemption
The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique.
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Theodor Adorno on Gift-giving
Human beings are forgetting how to give gifts... Real gift-giving had its happiness in imagining the happiness of the receiver. It meant choosing, spending time, going out of one’s way, thinking of the other as a subject: the opposite of forgetfulness. Hardly anyone is still capable of this.
