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Making Fields: Women in Publishing
Read more: Making Fields: Women in Publishingby Nicola Wilson, Claire Battershill, Sophie Heywood, Marrisa Joseph, Daniela La Penna, Helen Southworth, Alice Staveley and Elizabeth Willson Gordon […]
Decolonising human rights: a Q&A with Benjamin P. Davis
I want to talk about how all of us can decolonise human rights in our everyday lives, in constructive and imaginative ways
Clausewitz and Civil–Military Relations
Many readers of On War have taken Clausewitz’s discussion of the ‘logic’ of war tending to ‘extremes’ and concluded that he believed that, if a state were going to wage war, the only sensible way to do it would be…
Post-Politicisation and the Return of the Political
Erik Swyngedouw and Japhy Wilson explore the parallax gap between struggles for democracy against a backdrop of growing political disaffection.
Multiculturalism Isn’t a Dirty Word
David Cameron has been avoiding the m-word. In his recent speech about extremism, the word ‘multicultural’ was noticeable by its omission for two reasons. First, Cameron said that Britain was a ‘successful multiracial and multi-faith democracy’ and a term like…
Politics – An Extract from The Badiou Dictionary
The problem of how philosophy is to approach the word politics is especially difficult, as it is itself a stake of political struggle and thus steeped in equivocity. The question of just who is and who is not considered political, and what objects are part or are not part of political consideration, is itself always intrinsic to politics. Philosophy thus encounters the word politics as inherently equivocal or, in Badiou’s terms, as a ‘split word’.