crisis and critique

Introduction: Class(es) Today

by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

The New Class of Neoconservatism and the De/legitimization of American Capitalism

by Matteo Battistini

The Class Politics of Abolition: Police, Property, and the Racial Politics of Communism

by Ashley Bohrer

Non-capitalist Domination, Rentierism and the Politics of Class

by Rebecca Carson

The Possibility of an Emancipatory Form of Madness

by Cynthia Cruz

Marx’s Class Theory 2.0

by Roberto Fineschi

Marx: Communism as Strategy

by Isabelle Garo

Changing Topologies of the Class Struggle

by Boris Groys

Classes and Transclasses

by Chantal Jaquet

Class in Movement, Forming and Unforming

by Esther Leslie

Nonrelation of Abilities and Needs: Class Analysis as a Critique of Political Economy

by Yahya M. Madra

On Some Paradoxes of Social Analysis

by Jean-Claude Milner

Class in theory, Class in Practice

by William Clare Roberts

The Over-Soul of Class Consciousness: Lydia Maria Child and Friedrich Engels

by Ted Stolze

Toward an Epicurean Politics: The Two Instrumentalities (Phronesis and the Ineffectual)

by Dimitris Vardoulakis

The Lumpenproletariat and the Politics of Class

by Kathi Weeks

Class Struggle: Antagonism Beyond Fighting an Enemy

by Slavoj Žižek

On Modes of Exchange, Interview with Kojin Karatani

by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda

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Introduction: Is Politics Possible Today?

by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

Politics Today: Thirteen Theses and Commentaries

by Alain Badiou

Rethinking Politics and Freedom in Anthropocene

by Wendy Brown

Technique as Politics

by Andrea Cavalletti

Thinking Life: The Force of the Biopolitical

by Andrew Benjamin

Is Politics Possible Today?

by Verónica Gago

Politics Today: ‘Only a Suffering God’ Can Help Us

by Saroj Giri

Is Politics Still Possible Today?

by Karl-Heinz Dellwo

The Will of the People and the Struggle for Mass Sovereignty: A Preliminary Outline

by Peter Hallward

Politics is Intervention

by Christian Klar

Subjective Singularities

by Sylvain Lazarus

Politics at the Gateway of Nothingness: Liminal Times

by Álvaro García Linera

Immigration: A Major Issue in Politics Today

by Robert Linhart

The Revolution of the WethOthers (NosOtros)... Around a Theory of the Real for a Material Historical Politics of Our Times

by Ricardo Espinoza Lolas

Which Politics are Necessary in the Age of Ecological Crisis?

by Michael Löwy

In the Silences of the Catastrophe: From the Standpoint of Reproduction

by Natalia Romé

Can this War Be Thought of Politically?

by Claudia Pozzana & Alessandro Russo

Working through political organization: current results of the Subset of Theoretical Practice (2021-2022)

by Subset of Theoretical Practice

Is Politics Possible Today?

by Sophie Wahnich

The Left and (New) Antisemitism: The Palestinian Question and the Politics of Ressentiment

by Zahi Zalloua

Three Fragments on Suicide as a Political Factor

by Slavoj Žižek

Politics Today: Interview with Wolfgang Streeck

by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

Workerist Marxism: Interview with Antonio Negri

by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: The Present of Poetry

by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

Poets of the World Unite - with Philosophers, Against the Capitalist State

by Ali Alizadeh

Ransom! Baudelaire and Distributive Injustice

by Emily Apter

Rimbaud, Mandelstam, Pasolini. Or: When the Red Flag Must Become Lint Again

by Judith Balso

The Poetry that Presents Itself

by Philippe Beck

Poetic Image Now

by Victoria Bergstrom

Césaire’s Claim: On the Retroactive Genesis of Free Verse

by Nathan Brown

Poetry in Superposition: An Essay-Poem in Quantum Poetics

by Amy Catanzano

Propositions on the Philosophical Nature of Poetry

by Alessandro De Francesco

A Poem’s Gap

by Alex Garcia Düttmann and Juan Manuel Garrido

The New Muses: The Poetic Vector of Civilization

by Mikhail Epstein

In Praise of Bog

by Andrea Gadberry

“down-to-earth (o very earthy) magic”: Nature, Objectivity and Folk Speech in Lorine Niedecker and Theodor W. Adorno

by Daniel Hartley

Out of Control: Yeats & Frayn

by Carol Jacobs

From Passion for the Real to Passion for Knowledge

by Jela Krecic

Poetry Strikes Back

by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

Badiou’s Own Mallarmé

by Pierre Macherey

The Poet on Strike Against Society

by Jean-Claude Milner

Lorna Dee Cervantes and the Art of Refugeeship

by Warren Montag

Beyond All That Fiddle? Poetry and Poetics ‘After Theory’

by Christopher Norris

Time is a Word in Celan

by Paul North

China, Workers and Poetry in (post)Communism

by Claudia Pozzana

Poetry: From the Heart or From Blood?

by Jean-Michel Rabate

The Problem of Love and Distance in Anne Carson

by Rafael Saldanha

Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson: Poetry is for Thought, Novels for Stories

by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda

Interview with Heather H. Yeung: Entlassen. Thinking with Poetry

by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

Can You Read me?

by Reem Abbas

Interglacial (Poems 2015-2021)

by Pierre Joris

Apocalypse Waltz

by Philip Metres

Rivercrossing

by Heather H. Yeung

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: Hegel and the Philosophy of Right after 200 years

by Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda

The Right of the Body: Hegel on Corporeity and Law

by Stefania Achella

Conceptual Thought as Critique: Remarks on Hegel and Marx

by Andreas Arndt

Why Read Hegel Now?

by Judith Butler

“Beyond the Sphere of All Manufactured Things”: Reflections on Hegel’s Idea of the State

by Peter E. Gordon

From the Split Between Society and Nature Towards a Concept of Socio-Natural Ropes

by Oliver Feltham

The Actualization of Freedom

by Ethan Foore

The Right to Implication

by Andrew Haas

Capitalism’s Implants: A Hegelian Theory of Failed Revolutions

by Adrian Johnston

Science of Spirit

by Kojin Karatani

Hegel’s Double Anthropology: Anthropological Dimensions of the Theory of Sittlichkeit

by Jean-François Kervégan

Keine Frau muss müssen? Hegel in the Time of MeToo

by Zdravko Kobe

The State of Capital: Hegel’s Critique of Bourgeois Society

by Todd McGowan

The Philosophy of Right/ Hegel at 250

by Jean Luc Nancy

The Rabble and Its Constitution

by Emmanuel Nakamura

Hegel's Project of Comprehending Social Life

by Frederick Neuhouser

Changing the World of Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

by Angelica Nuzzo

Should Hegelian Political Philosophy Jettison the Absolute? Hegel’s Political Philosophy Two-hundred Years Later

by Terry Pinkard

The Right and Wrongs of the Universal – Reading Notes on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuhback

Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

by Christoph Schuringa

A “Transformative” Reading of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right?

by Ludwig Siep

Right and Duty in Hegel – Restrictions of Freedom?

by Klaus Vieweg

Hegelian History Interrupted

by Rocío Zambrana

A Short Note on Hegel and the Exemplum of Christ

by Slavoj Žižek

Interview with Robert Pippin: The Actuality of Hegel

by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

Interview with Catherine Malabou: New Directions in Hegelianism

by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: Spinoza Today & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

Nothing Matters: Skepticism, Spinoza, and Contemporary French Thought

by Jeffrey A. Bell

Theologico-political power: Spinoza against Schmitt

by Marilena Chaui

The Politics of Indignation: a Spinozist Perspective

by Miguel de Beistegui

Perseverance, Power, and Eternity: Purely Positive Essence and Spinoza’s Naturalism

by Michael Della Rocca

Imaginary projections. Spinoza, between Borges, Perón and Freud

by Mariana Gainza

Spinoza’s Rationalist Materialism: A Contribution to the Critique of Contemporary Naturalism

by Pascale Gillot

Thinking social mobility with Spinoza

by Chantal Jaquet

“Sed de his satis”: Spinoza’s Famous Last Words

by Gregg Lambert

Hegel or Spinoza: Return to a Journey

by Pierre Macherey

Spinoza, Althusser, and the Question of Humanism

by Yitzhak Melamed

Spinoza and the Materialism of the Letter

by Warren Montag

Is it right to revolt? Spinoza, the multitude and insurrection

by Pierre-Francois Moreau

‘Different Times are Not Simultaneous, but Successive’: Spinoza between Jacobi and Herder

by Vittorio Morfino

The Specter of Spinozism: Malebranche, Arnauld

by Steven Nadler

Spinoza, a Democrat or a Republican?

by Charles Ramond

Preemptive Strikes (of a philosophical variety): Marx and Spinoza

by Jason Read

Towards a Revolutionary Science

by Natalia Romé

Ultimate Grounds, Political Power, Philosophical Intervention: Inheriting the Tractatus theologico-politicus

by Martin Saar

“I dare not mutter a word”: Speech and Political Violence in Spinoza

by Hasana Sharp

Un homme ivre d’immanence: Deleuze’s Spinoza and Immanence

by Jack Stetter

Reading the Hebrew Bible with Canaanite Eyes: Spinoza on Land, Migration, and Conquest

by Ted Stolze

On Damaged and Regenerating Life: Spinoza and Mentalities of Climate Catastrophe

by Dan Taylor

A hedonist (and materialist) Spinoza. A cross-reading

by Maria Turchetto

The Invention of Nihilism: Political Monism, Epicureanism, and Spinoza

by Dimitris Vardoulakis

Spinoza and the Paradox of Constitutionalism

by Miguel Vatter

On Desire: Spinoza in Anti-Oedipus

by Daniela Voss

Configuring the scene of subjectivity, once again, and with Spinoza

by Caroline Williams

POEM: Spinoza

by Christopher Norris

Interview with Pierre Macherey, Spinoza Today

by Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: 2020 – The Year of the Virus. SARS 2 / COVID 19 & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

Living, Learning, Imagining in the Middle of the Crisis

by Étienne Balibar

Security and Solidarity

by Andrea Cavalletti

Morbus Anglicus; or, Pandemic, Panic, Pandaemonium

by Justin Clemens

The Accomplice

by Alexander García Düttmann

The Twofold Face of Immunity

by Roberto Esposito

"Changing Life? Fortunes and Misfortunes of "Biopolitics" in the Age of Covid-19"

by Isabelle Garo

The Interest of Breathing: Towards a Theory of Ecological Interest Formation

by Bue Rübner Hansen

Art and True state of Emergency

by Wang Hui

The Middle-Class Leviathan: Corona, the “Fascism” Blackmail, and the Defeat of the Working Class

by Elena Louisa Lange and Joshua Pickett-Depaolis

The State in Times of Coronavirus: The pendulum of the "Illusory Community"

by Álvaro García Linera

XV Theses on the Ecological Crisis and the Pandemia

by Michael Löwy

Gas and Blas(t)

by Artemy Magun & Michael Marder

Contagion: State of Exception or Erotic Excess? Agamben, Nancy, and Bataille

by Catherine Malabou

The Mask of Universality: Politics in the Pandemic Response

by Todd McGowan

Acceptable Deaths: Killing and Letting Die in the Covid-19 Conjuncture

by Warren Montag

Still Too Human

by Jean-Luc Nancy

Covid, Crisis, and the Materialist Critique of Value

by Nick Nesbitt

Pandemic Economics

by Michael Roberts

Excerpt from: The Ministry for the Future

by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Normalization of Barbarism

by Natalia Romé

Beyond the Necropolitics Principle: Suicidal State and Authoritarian Neoliberalism

by Vladimir Safatle

Viral Encounter: Experiences, Lessons, and Options

by Göran Therborn

Last Resorts: Jottings on the Pandemic State

by Alberto Toscano

Contribution to the Critique of Political Organization: Outline of An Ongoing Research Project

by Gabriel Tupinambá et al

Pandemonium Education – or a Teacher’s Manifesto Against “Social Distancing

by Raquel Varela & Roberto della Santa

Homo Pandemicus: COVID ideology and panic consumption

by Fabio Vighi

Covid is the New Orange…

by Sophie Wahnich

Get Used to the Virus (and Forest Fires, and…)? No, Thanks!

by Slavoj Žižek

Interview with Mladen Dolar: Dialectic at a Standstill? Hegel at the Times of COVID

by Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: Cinema & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

“Who Do We Shoot?”: Capitalism and the Problem of Its Image

by Pietro Bianchi

After Finitude It’s a Wonderful Life

by Rex Butler

The Documentary Form and Lacan’s Four Discourses

by David Denny

Defending Representation; or, Thinking the Paradox to the Limit

by Matthew Flisfeder

“Repeating the Square: From Satisfaction to Jouissance”

by Jennifer Friedlander

A Hand for Hitchcock

by Tom Gunning

The End of Cinema as We Used to Know It: Or How a Medium Turned From a Promising Graduate Into an Old Folk

by Petra Kettl & Robert Pfaller

In Defense of Happy Endings, or, Where Lies the Trap of Never-Ending Stories

by Jela Krečič

Parasite and the Parallax of Social Relations Under Capitalism

by Sheila Kunkle

Industry of Boredom: On the Discord between Cinematic Telos and Ethos

by Michael Kurtov

Anger, grief, and dark humour: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as an ‘emotional hybrid’

by Tarja Laine

The Object of Silent Cinema

by Todd McGowan

Bacurau — on blood, maps and museums

by Patrícia Mourão de Andrade

Animal filmicum: Notes on Some Scenes from Béla Tarr

by Peter Szendy

Preston Sturges and The End of Laughter

by Alenka Zupančič

Interview with Sophie Fiennes, Risk is the Holy Grail We Need to Hold Onto

by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda

Interview with Todd McGowan: Politics of Moviegoing

by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: The Future of Europe & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

Seven Propositions Concerning Internationalism

by Judith Balso

Le Dernier Metro. Europe on the Edge of the Abyss

by Riccardo Bellofiore & Francesco Garibaldo

Europe at Weimar

by Franco “Bifo” Berardi

Europe After Eurocentrism?

by Chiara Bottici & Benoit Challand

Empire of Graveyards

by Joshua Clover

Arriving on the Continent that Needs to be Named Again

by Oliver Feltham

Is a European People Possible?

by Frédéric Lordon

The Achrontic Function of Philosophy and Europe

by Vittorio Morfino

Brexit Britain and Europe

by Michael Roberts

Europe Endless: Crisis, Spirit and the End of Europe

by Benjamin Noys

Is it Possible to Think Europe Beyond Capitalism?

by Alessandro Russo

An Alliance of War and Peace: Europe and the Necessity of Diplomacy

by Alexander Stagnell

The International State System after Neoliberalism: Europe between National Democracy and Supranational Centralization

by Wolfgang Streeck

Race, Class, Tragedy. Nietzsche and the Fantasies of Europe

by Alberto Toscano

Confronting Europe’s Failure

by Sophie Wahnich

Which Idea of Europe is Worth Defending?

by Slavoj Žižek

Interview with Albin Kurti: The Problem of Europe Today Are Its Small Ambitions

by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: Lacan: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Politics, & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

On Psychoanalysis and Freedom: Lacan vs. Heidegger

by Richard Booth

The Trojan Castle: Lacan and Kafka on Knowledge, Enjoyment, and the Big Other

by Lorenzo Chiesa

Sophist's Choice

by Mladen Dolar

The Forgetfulness of Ontology and the Metaphysical Tendencies of Contemporary Lacanism

by Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker

The Argentinean Exception Proves the Rule

by Patricia Gherovici

The Logic of Lacan’s Not-All

by Dominiek Hoens

Lacan’s Endgame: Philosophy, Science, and Religion in the Final Seminars

by Adrian Johnston

Spectral Psychoanalysis: the Nabokov Effect

by Sigi Jöttkandt

The Lust for Power and the Logic of Enjoyment

by Todd McGowan

Untreatable: The Freudian Act and its Legacy

by Tracy McNulty

Political Considerations About Lacan’s Later Work

by Jean-Claude Milner

Lacanizing Marxism: the Effects of Lacan in Readings of Marx and Marxist Thinkers

by David Pavón Cuéllar

Lacan’s Homeric Laughter

by Jean-Michel Rabaté

The For-All: Grappling With the Real of the Group

by Jelica Šumič

“The pandora’s Box Has Been Opened": Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Politics After 2017

by Gabriel Tupinambá

Lacan’s Answer to Alienation: Separation

by Paul Verhaeghe

Genie out of the bottle: Lacan and the Loneliness of Global Capitalism

by Fabio Vighi

Ibi Rhodus Ibi Saltus: Theology, Hegel, Lacan

by Slavoj Žižek

Interview with Alenka Zupančič: Philosophy or Psychoanalysis? Yes, Please!

by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: 50 Years After May 68, & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

The Double Heritage of Communism to Come. 1917-1968-2018

by Bini Adamczak

1968-2018, or from the "revolution impossible" to the impossibility of revolution? Variations on the objet petit s

by Eric Alliez

Scattered Notes on “May 68” And its interpretations

by Étienne Balibar

The procedure of its Invention, the Construction of its Form, the Means of its Transmission

by A. J. Bartlett

Topicality of May 68

by Daniel Blanchard

Will it Happen Again? Boredom, Anxiety and the Peak of Human Evolution

by Franco “bifo” Berardi

To Make the Long March Short: A Short Commentary on the Two Long Marches that Have Failed Their Emancipatory Promises

by Boris Buden

1968 and the Cahiers pour l'analyse. Internal debates in the philosophy of concept: epistemology, formalization and anti-psychologism

by Pascale Gillot

Lacanian Subversion: Psychoanalysis for the Post-Humanity Era

by Rodrigo Gonsalves and Ivan Estêvão

Global 1968 Reconstructed in the Short Century

by Wang Hui

Storming Language

by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

Making Subjection Visible: The Materialist Effects of 1968

by Warren Montag

May 68': Spacing

by Jean-Luc Nancy

One or Two Melancholias? 1917, 1968 and the Question of Organisation

by Rodrigo Nunes

October 2 is Not Forgotten! The History, Collective Memory and Transgenerational Perseverance of Mexican ’68

by David Pavón-Cuéllar

Re-politicizing 68

by Jacques Rancière

May ’68 – A Past That Never Was and a Future That Has Already Been Missed

by Serene Richards

The Long 1960s and ‘The Wind From the West’

by Kristin Ross

May ’68 and its Subject (some Philosophical Archives of a Revolution)

by Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc

Interview with Karl-Heinz Dellwo: 68 – Aborted Liberation

by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: Philosophy and Science, & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

Rethinking a Philosophical Way of Demarcating Science from Politics

by Sina Badiei

Notes on the Equivalence Between Ontology and Mathematics

by Burhanuddin Baki

“To be and not to be – that is the answer”: Paraconsistency and Dialetheism According to G. Priest

by Emmanuel Barot

Concrete-in-Thought, Concrete-in-Act: Marx, Materialism and the Exchange Abstraction

by Ray Brassier

As Fire Burns: Philosophy, Slavery, Technology

by Justin Clemens

Science without Philosophy: The Case of Big Data

by Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Whither the Transcendental?: Hegel, Analytic Philosophy, and the Prospects of a Realist Transcendentalism Today

by Adrian Johnston

The System that Destroys Itself, or Greenberg’s Modernism & the Liar’s Paradox

by Juliette Kennedy & Michael Maizels

Science, Language, and the “Truth of the Subject:” Lacan and Wittgenstein

by Paul Livingston

Science, Philosophy, Literature

by Pierre Macherey

Mark and Lack: Formalism as Fidelity

by Reza Naderi

Problems and Pseudo-Problems in Althusserian Science

by Knox Peden

Marxism, Science and Technology

by Katarina Peović Vuković

Psychoanalysis, Science, and Worldviews

by Ed Pluth

On Science and Philosophy

by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

For Theoreticism: Theoretical Practice and Philosophical Unconscious

by Natalia Romé

The mismeasure of thought: Some notes on organization, scale and experimentation in politics and science

by Gabriel Tupinambá

From Cognitive Mappings to Sheaves

by Yuan Yao

An Interview with Catherine Malabou: Toward epigenetic philosophy

by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

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Introduction: Bolshevik Revolution – 100 Years After, & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

On the Russian October Revolution of 1917

by Alain Badiou

October 1917 After One Century

by Étienne Balibar

Back to Zimmerwald: Rethinking Internationalism

by Franco 'Bifo' Berardi

From Berne to Yan’an: The Theoretical Breakthroughs of Lenin and Mao

by Roland Boer

The Comrades of the Past: The Soviet Enlightenment Between Negation and Affirmation

by Maria Chehonadskih

Lenin and the State of the Revolution

by Lorenzo Chiesa

Desiring Alienation in Capitalism. Zeal to De-alienate in Socialism

by Keti Chukhrov

The Subject of the Revolution

by Jodi Dean

Tchevengour, the country of unreal communism - The October Revolution through the dialectical art of Andréï Platonov

by Isabelle Garo

The Haunting of the October Revolution

by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

Not Marx, Not Locke, But Hobbes: The Meaning of the Russian Revolution

by Lars T. Lih

Introduction: Li Dazhdao and Bolshevism

by Claudia Pozzana

The Victory of Bolshevism

by Li Dazhdao

Wild times: From the 1917 Russian Revolution to the Revolution of our times

by Álvaro García Linera

The Possibility of Revolution

by Christoph Menke

Rereading October 1917

by Jean-Claude Milner

The Legacies of the Russian Revolution: Power, Equality, Right

by Warren Montag

Lenin and Electricity

by Jean-Luc Nancy

Notes on the Critique of Revisionism: Lenin, Mao and Us

by Alessandro Russo

A People’s Revolution: Democracy and Dictatorship in the Class Struggle

by Alan Shandro

The Broken Music of the Revolution: Trotsky and Blok

by Alberto Toscano

Interview with Slavoj Žižek: The Belated Actuality of Lenin

by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda

Short interviews:
Kevin B. Anderson
Michael Hardt
Esther Leslie
Christoph Menke
ymm+cö
Sophie Wahnich

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Introduction: Hegel(‘s) Today, & F.Ruda

by by A.Hamza

Hegel Political Theologian?

by Stefania Achella

Hegel’s Master and Slave

by Alain Badiou

The Future of Hegelian Metaphysics

by John W. Burbidge

Hegel’s Big Event

by Andrew Cole

Being and MacGuffin

by Mladen Dolar

Hegel Amerindian: For a non-Identitarian Concept of Identification in Psychoanalysis

by Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker

On Threat

by Andrew Haas

Hegel and Picture-Thinking, or, an Episode in the History of Allegory

by Fredric Jameson

Holding Lenin Together: Hegelianism and Dialectical Materialism—A Historical Excursus

by Adrian Johnston

Normative Rationality: Hegelian Drive

by Jean-François Kervégan

Substance Subjectivized

by Zdravko Kobe

Hegel and the Present

by Pierre Macherey

Learning to Love the End of History: Freedom Through Logic

by Todd McGowan

The Germ of Death: Purposive Causality in Hegel

by Gregor Moder

Ethical Form in the External State: Bourgeois, Citizens and Capital

by Terry Pinkard

Hegel on Social Pathology: The Actuality of Unreason

by Robert B. Pippin

The Absolute Plasticity of Hegel’s Absolutes

by Borna Radnik

Hegel and the Possibility of a New Idealism

by Jure Simoniti

Freedom and Universality: Hegel’s Republican Conception of Modernity

by Michael J. Thompson

Freedom is Slavery

by Oxana Timofeeva

The politics of Alienation and Separation: From Hegel to Marx... and Back

by Slavoj Žižek

Hegel and Freud: Between Aufhebung and Verneinung

by Alenka Zupančič

Interview with Fredric Jameson: Hegel, Ideology, Contradiction

by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction by & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

A Marxian Critique of Neoclassical Economics’ Reliance on Shadows of Capital’s Constitutive Social Forms

by Dennis Badeen & Patrick Murray

Marx after Hegel: Capital as totality and the centrality of production

by Riccardo Bellofiore

Capital: A Critical Theory?

by Jacques Bidet

The Beast and the Universal: Hegel's Critique of Political Economy

by Ivan Boldyrev

The "Capital " after the MEGA: Discontinuities, Interruptions and New Beginnings

by Michael Heinrich

How to Read Capital in the Twenty-First Century

by Campbell Jones

Capital as Spirit

by Kojin Karatani

Creativity vs. Unskilled Labour: Kant on Class Struggle

by Ognian Kassabov

How Not to Evaluate the Relevance of Marx’s Capital

by Andrew Kliman

The Critique of Political Economy and the 'New Dialectic': Marx, Hegel and the Problem of Christopher J. Arthur's 'Homology Thesis'

by Elena Louisa Lange

The Economic Catastrophe as a Passionate Event

by Frédéric Lordon

Marx’s Destruction of the Inner World: from the Colonial Internalisation of the Psyche to the Critique of the Psychological Roots of Political Economy

by David Pavón Cuéllar

Radicalizing the Root: The Return of Philosophical Anthropology to the Critique of Political Economy

by Jason Read

Mapping the Abstract Essence of Concrete Existence: An Analysis of the Privative Form of Value, an Overdetermined Category

by Frank Smecker

Journeying on the Roads Not Taken: The Possessive Individual, the Commons and Marx

by Massimiliano Tomba

Economic crises, historical regression and social conflicts: an essay

by Raquel Varela and Valério Arcary

Capitalist Bulimia: Lacan on Marx and crisis

by Fabio Vighi

The ‘Ideal Total Capitalist’: On the State-Form in the Critique of Political Economy

by Gavin Walker

Phenomenology of Value: Badiou and Marx

by Yuan Yao

Can One Exit from The Capitalist Discourse Without Becoming a Saint?

by Slavoj Žižek

Interview with Moishe Postone: That Capital has limits does not mean that it will collapse

by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda

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Politics and Melancholia:Introduction by & Dominiek Hoens

by Justin Clemens

Melancholia and Destruction: Brushing Walter Benjamin’s “Angel of History” Against the Grain

by Sami Khatib

Hypochondria and Its Discontents, or, the Geriatric Sublime

by Rebecca Comay

Controlled Melancholy: How to Purely Love Political Power

by Marc De Kesel

The King is Tired. A Few Notes About Politics, Theatre and Melancholy

by Karel Vanhaesebrouck

Small Anatomy of Political Melancholy

by Lieven De Cauter

The Failed Politician Melancholia, Crisis and Political Agency

by Klaas Tindemans

Notes on a Deleuzean Theory of Melancholia: Object, Cinema, World

by Jon Roffe

Black Bile/Pale Fire: Benjaminian Allegory and Nabokovian Melancholy

by Sigi Jöttkandt

Melancholegalism: Black Letter Theory and the Temporality of Law

by Peter Goodrich

The Happy Melancholic

by Alexi Kukuljevic

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Introduction, by & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

Who is Stalin, What is he?

by Lars T. Lih

Stalin and Hitler: Twin Brothers or Mortal Enemies?

by Domenico Losurdo

A Thought on Stalin Beginning From Lenin

by Judith Balso

The Prince and the Revolutionary

by Jean-Claude Milner

Reflections on the Meaning of Stalinism

by Paul LeBlanc

A Materialist Doctrine of Good and Evil: Stalin’s Revision of Marxist Anthropology

by Roland Boer

Comrade Hegel: Absolute Spirit Goes East

by Evgeny V. Pavlov

Staline selon Varlam Chalamov

by Cécile Winter

Egalitarian Inventions and Political Symptoms: A Reassessment of Mao’s Statements on the “Probable Defeat”

by Alessandro Russo

Sovereignty and Deviation: Notes on Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason Vol 2

by Alberto Toscano

Stalin Beyond Stalin: A Paradoxical Hypothesis of Communism by Alexandre Kojève and Boris Groys

by Alexei Penzin

Tracing Radical Subjectivity contra Stalinism, and Why This Takes Us to Fanon

by Saroj Giri

Cromwell, Robespierre, Stalin (and Lenin?): Must Revolution Always Mean Catastrophe?

by Bill Bowring

“No, it is not true!”: Stalin and the Question of Materialist Science of Language

by Samo Tomšič

A Left-Wing Historical Revisionism: Studying the Conflicts of the Twentieth Century After the Crisis of Anti-Fascist Paradigm

by Stefano G. Azzarà

On the Organisation of Defeats

by Agon Hamza & Gabriel Tupinambá

Marxism-Leninism Teaches that the People are the Creators of History

by Enver Hoxha

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Introduction, by & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

Althusser and “Communism”

by Étienne Balibar

Althusser’s Best Tricks

by Robert Pfaller

Celebrating Althusser’s Legacy

by Fernanda Navarro

The Interpellated Subject: Beyond Althusser and Butler

by Jacques Bidet

The Concept of Structural Causality in Althusser

by Vittorio Morfino

What Colour is Theoreticism? Faust Reading Althusser

by Natalia Romé

On Althusser on Science, Ideology, and the New, or Why We Should Continue to Read Reading Capital

by Geoff Pfeifer

Is There Less Bullshit in For Marx than in Reading Capital?

by William Lewis

Althusserianism and Value-form Theory: Rancière, Althusser and the Question of Fetishism

by Panagiotis Sotiris

Althusser and the Problem of Historical Individuality

by Ted Stolze

Humanity, That Sickness: Louis Althusser and The Helplessness of Psychoanalysis

by Adrian Johnston

Fidelity that is not Interpellation: Reading Althusser’s Misreadings

by Agon Hamza

On Althusser

by Roger Establet

Interview with Pierre Macherey

by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda

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Introduction, by & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

1)Some Thoughts on the Divine Ex-istence

by Slavoj Žižek

Confucius and Chairman Mao: Towards a Study of Religion and Chinese Marxism

by Roland Boer

Psychoanalysis, Religion, Love

by Lorenzo Chiesa

What is Left to Imagine: The Privation of the Absolute

by Felix Ensslin

A prolegomena to an Emancipatory Reading of Islam

by Sead Zimeri

What Christians need no longer defend: The political stakes of considering antinomianism as central to the practice and history of theology

by ColDickinson

Revisiting a Marxist Encounter with Spinoza: Alexandre Matheron on Militant Reason and The Intellectual Love of God

by Ted Stolze

Political Theology and Comedy: Žižek through Rose Tinted Glasses

by Marcus Pound

The Comedy of the Great Depression: On Chaplin’s Modern Times

by Simon Hajdini

Hegelian Christology: From Kojève to Žižek

by Gabriel Tupinambá

Fichte in Reverse: From Onto-theology to Materialist Ontology

by Lidija Šumah

The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Legitimacy: On the Roots Future of Political Theology

by Adam Kotsko

Mysticism as Radical Political Action

by Catherine Tomas

Spirit and Utopia: (German) Idealism as Political Theology

by Kirill Chepurin

Romanticism, Marxism and Religion in the “Principle of Hope” of Ernst Bloch

by Michael Löwy

Review Articles

J.Read: Initiation a la philosophie pour les non-philosophes, by Louis Althusser

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Introduction, by & Agon Hamza

by Frank Ruda

Answer’s to Today’s Crisis: A Leninist View

by Slavoj Žižek

What Does Theory Become? The Humanities, Politics, and Philosophy (1970-2010): Reflections and Propositions

by Étienne Balibar

Contemporary Thought and the Crisis of Negation

by Jelica Šumič

How do we recognize strong critique?

by Paul Livingston

The Ideology of Life and the Necessity of its Critique

by Jan Völker

The function of philosophy and the crisis of Marxism

by Agon Hamza

How to Act As If One Were Not Free: A Contemporary Defense of Fatalism

by Frank Ruda

The Barriers to a Critical Comedy

by Todd McGowan

Capitalism and Repetition: Marx and Lacan

by Simon Hajdini

The Idea of the Passe: Critique and Construction in Psychoanalytic Thinking

by Gabriel Tupinambá

The Singular Invariant: On the dialectic which is not in Alain Badiou,

by A. J. Bartlett

Freeing Althusser from Spinoza:

by A Reconsideration of Structural Causality

Hegel or Spinoza: Substance, Subject, and Critical Marxism

by Ted Stolze

Where to Start?: Robert Pippin, Slavoj Žižek, and the True Beginning(s) of Hegel’s System

by Adrian Johnston

P.Sotiris: Althusser and His Contemporaries, by Warren Montag

I.Boldyrev: The Privatisation of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia, ed. by P.Thompson

by and S.Žižek

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The Impasses of Today’s Radical Politics

by Slavoj Žižek

Socialist Democracy with Chinese Characteristics

by Roland Boer

The Indignant of the Earth

by Frank Ruda

Democracy and revolution on the Internet

by Katarina Peović Vuković

Alain Badiou and the aporia of democracy within generic communism

by Panagiotis Sotiris

Climate Crisis, Ideology, and Collective Action

by Ted Stolze

Lacan and Rational Choice

by Yuan Yao

Redemptive Revolutions: The Political Hermeneutics of Walter Benjamin

by Nicolai Krejberg Knudsen

The Necessity of Philosophy

by Srdjan Cvjetičanin

What is a Party a part of?

by Gabriel Tupinambá

Communism is Wrong

by Jana Tsoneva

The Jews and the Zionists; The Story of a Reversal

by Sina Badiei

Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, by Adrian Johnston

by H.J.Bjerre

From Myth to Symptom: the case of Kosovo, by S. Žižek & A.Hamza

by C.Crockett

Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis, by Todd McGowan

by D.Tutt

Badiou and the Philosophers, ed.T.Tho & G.Bianco

by A.Ryder

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