Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 29 | November 2010 Against Badiou ALAIN BADIOU’S RECENT BOOK (2010) is titled with the phrase promoted by his and Slavoj Žižek’s work for the last few years, “the communist hypothesis.”1 This is also the title of Badiou’s 2008 essay in New Left Review2 on the historical significance of the 2007 [...]
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Petrified unrest: A review of the Creative Time Summit
Bret Schneider Platypus Review 29 | November 2010 In this situation of “crisis in perception,” it is no longer a question of educating the crude ear to hear music, but of giving it back hearing. It is no longer a question of training the eye to see beauty, but of restoring “perceptibility.” — Susan Buck-Morss1 [...]
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Oil and the Left: An interview with Imre Szeman
Andony Melathopoulos with Brian Worley Platypus Review 29 | November 2010 In September of this year, Andony Melathopoulos interviewed Imre Szeman, author, professor, and founder of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, on behalf of the Platypus Review, to discuss his analysis of oil politics in light of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the [...]
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