'Is it true that the Poles are anti-Semitic?' Jerzy flushed. 'No.' 'People say they are. I read somewhere that Begin had said he'd never set foot on Polish soil again.'…
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. (Franz…
'A struggle prevails when its principles are clear.'(LDP, 28.05.98: 12) As Badiou conceives it, 'politics can only think as the thought of all' (AM: 156-7). Politics is organised first and…
Today, Lenin's political works are being entirely revisited through the canonical opposition between democracy and totalitarian dictatorship. Yet the truth is that this debate has already taken place. For it…
Clearly, the fear of political paralysis is precisely what prompts the anti-theoretical animus in certain activist circles. Paradoxically, such positions require the paralysis of critical reflection in order to avoid…
First of all I would like to thank Simon for all the effort he has undertaken in preparing what is no doubt a very important article of his. I would…
This paper reviews the history of a disagreement.1 In May and June 1990, at the end of my first year's teaching at Essex, Ernesto Laclau and I taught a course…
Gavin Kendall and Mike Michael 1. Introduction This paper is concerned with the complex interdigitation of the works of Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour (and more generally, actor-network theory).In particular,…
Samuel Weber, Simon Morgan Wortham and Gary Hall The following interview was conducted by email correspondence during September 2001. On September 11th, the World Trade Center in New York was…
New York and London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415113148 'The familiar is not necessarily the known' Liam McNamara It is Michael E. Gardiner's contention that the world of 'everyday life' is often…