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The Psychology of Resilience
July 25, 2013
Readers of Radical Philosophy will have noticed over the last couple of issues the heated spat between Mark Neocleous and David Chandler regarding the politics of ‘resilience’.[1] Readers of this blog will also have noticed our own Sitting Room University (SRU) pondering the possibility of a more militant conception of resilience, one compatible with anti-capitalist …
Free Book! Badiou in Jamaica: The Politics of Conflict
June 26, 2013
As promised in an earlier post, here I am blowing my own trumpet! My book, Badiou in Jamaica: The Politics of Conflict is finally out. I went with Re.Press because they are an Open Access publisher committed to enabling intellectual work at a distance from the market logics increasingly dominating even academic publishing. In other words, …
Refugee Week 14-29th June
June 10, 2013
As anyone who reads a mainstream paper every now and again cannot fail to notice, the issues posed by refugees, assylum seekers and immigration are regularly caricatured to produce a political football useful for point-scoring between political parties. However, behind the partisan rhetoric is a complex, culturally diverse and very urgent human reality that Refugee Week 2013 helps to bring to …
‘On Theory’ interviews for the New Left Project
May 15, 2013
Readers of this blog will be interested in the series of interviews on particular critical theorists one of our current PhD students, Sam Grove, is doing for the New Left Project . Called simply ‘On Theory’, these interviews represent a valuable attempt to render often obtuse and problematically academic critical theory relevant to, and urgent for, the activist community. Several people involved …
In Formation: Reading Group on the Kilburn Manifesto
May 2, 2013
Hi All, I’m forwarding a message from Professor Stephen Legg over in Geography who, with others, is organising a reading group in response to the ‘Kilburn Manifesto‘ you may have seen mentioned in the Guardian. It’s a timely and much-needed attempt to think through and take seriously alternatives to the neoliberal consensus that is allowing …
