On becoming things: An interview with Axel Honneth
Jensen Suther . Platypus Review 59 | September 2013 On July 3rd, 2013, at the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, Germany, Jensen Suther interviewed Axel Honneth, director of the Frankfurt Institute for...
View ArticleEntretien avec Domenico Losurdo sur le liberalisme
A propos d’une contre- histoire du libéralisme . Image: Italian theorist and Marxist philosopher Domenico Losurdo Le 17 mars 2012 Ross Wolfe et Pam Nogales de la Platypus Affiliated Society ont...
View ArticleThey still radiate the future
Introduction . Last night I went to see a preliminary screening of Isabella Willinger’s newly-released documentary Away from all suns. Sammy Medina of FastCo, with whom I frequently collaborate, and...
View ArticleOn publishing practice: Architecture, history, politics
The Charnel-House interviewed by Kerb . The following interview is taken from Kerb 21: Uncharted Territories (2013), a yearly publication put out by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in...
View ArticleAmidst the ruins of the Soviet avant-garde
Isa Willinger on her film Away from All Suns! . Originally published at the architecture website uncube. Several weeks ago I posted another interview with the director. Architecture was once considered...
View ArticleKhidekel and the cosmist legacy of suprematism in architecture
. The following is a brief extract from an interview Elena Dobriakova conducted with Regina Khidekel, the daughter-in-law of the great suprematist painter and speculative architect Lazar Khidekel. It...
View ArticleTrotskyism in Greece: An interview with Andros Payiatsos
Nikos Manousakis Platypus Review 64 March 2, 2014 . On November 22, 2013, Nikos Manousakis, a member of the Platypus Affiliated Society in Thessoliniki, interviewed Andros Payiatsos, Secretary General...
View ArticleWalking between precipices: An interview with Ernesto Laclau
Hegemony vs. reification, Gramsci contra Lukács . Platypus Review 2 February 1, 2008 Ashleigh Campi .. . May 2014: Ernesto Laclau, the post-Marxist Argentine political theorist of populism and...
View ArticleIs the funeral for the wrong corpse? An interview with Hal Foster
Bret Schneider & Omair Hussain Platypus Review 22 | April 2010 . . Hal Foster is a prominent critic and art historian who contributes regularly to Artforum, New Left Review, and The Nation. He is...
View ArticleArt, a modern phenomenon: An interview with Larry Shiner
Chris Mansour Platypus Review 67 June 1, 2014 . . On March 18, 2014, Chris Mansour, a member of the Platypus Affiliated Society in New York, interviewed Larry Shiner, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy,...
View ArticleThere is no criticism, only history
Manfredo Tafuri Design Book Review No. 9: Spring 1986 . . Manfredo Tafuri is a prolific author on a wide variety of subjects ranging from 16th-century Venice (L’armonia e I conflitti, coauthored with...
View ArticleThe life and works of the Marxist art historian Meyer Schapiro
. The following series of interviews from the early 1990s gives a good sense of the Marxist art historian Meyer Schapiro’s life and work. You can download a selection of his writings by clicking on the...
View ArticleThe Stenberg brothers and the art of Soviet movie posters
Alma Law: Let’s begin, if you’re agreeable, simply with some biographical information. Vladimir Stenberg: My father was born in Sweden in the town of Norrkoping and he finished the Academy in...
View ArticleMaxime Rodinson: Marxist, Orientalist, anti-Zionist, anti-Islamist
. The French Marxist scholar Maxime Rodinson, whose Polish parents died in Auschwitz while he was serving in the French Institute in Damascus, was born on May 22, 1915. Some sources say Paris; others...
View ArticleMoishe Postone, 1942-2018
< p style=”text-align: center;”>. (Caricature depicting Postone on the left, next to Karl Marx and Karl Liebknecht) Yesterday morning I saw it announced across social media and on several sites,...
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