Translated by Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press, 2008. Sunit Singh IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that there is a new English translation of Black Skin, White Masks (Peau Noire, Masques Blancs [1952], hereafter BSWM), since in this first book, Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) himself believed that the fight against racism had nowhere found more succor than [...]
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Book Review: Theodor W. Adorno, Philosophy of New Music.
Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Bret Schneider THE NEW TRANSLATION AND REPUBLICATION of Theodor Adorno’s Philosophy of New Music is a further clarification of modernism, necessitated by the latest discontents with postmodernism’s vulgarization, which keeps it at a fictitious distance. Perhaps as his remedy for the most fragmented part of [...]
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Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?
The ambivalence of the current German student movement Stefan Dietl “DIESER HÖRSAAL IST BESETZT!” (“This lecture hall is occupied!”) In November and December 2009, signs bearing such slogans were found on doors at over 60 German universities. For the second time that year, a broad student movement managed to gain public attention for its demands. [...]
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Gillian Rose’s “Hegelian” critique of Marxism
Book review: Gillian Rose, Hegel Contra Sociology. London: Verso, 2009. Chris Cutrone GILLIAN ROSE’S MAGNUM OPUS was her second book, Hegel Contra Sociology (1981).[1] Preceding this was The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno (1978), a work which charted Rose’s approach to the relation of Marxism to Hegel in Hegel [...]
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