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R a A D I journal C of A socialist 144 Editorial collective Howard Caygill, David Cunningham, Howard Feather, Peter Hallward, Esther Leslie, Stewart Martin, Kaye Mitchell, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford Contributors Colin Falconer is a member of the editorial board of the independent political and theoretical review Socialisme International. Isabelle Stengers teaches Philosophy of Science at the Free University of Brussels. Her books in English include The Invention of Modern Sceince (Minnesota University Press, 2000). Katie Lloyd Thomas is curently completing a PhD on Matter, Form and the Architectural Specification at Middlesex University. She is the editor of Material Matters: Architecture and Material Practice (Routledge, 2007). Mark Dorrian is Reader in Architectural and Design Theory, University of Edinburgh. He is the author (with Adrian Hawker) of Metis: Urban Cartographies (Black Dog, 2002). Nathan Brown is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He contributed an essay on nanoscale engineering and experimental poetics to Nanoculture, ed. N. Katherine Hayles (Intellect, 2004). Richard J. Lane is Professor of English at Malaspina University College, Vancouver Island. He is the author of Jean Baudrillard (Routledge, 2000) and, most recently, The Postcolonial Novel (Polity, 2006). David Macey is a writer and translator. His most recent book is Michel Foucault (Reaktion, 2004). Christopher Fynsk is Director of the Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen. His latest book is The Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities (University of Minnesota Press, 2004). He is the editor of Philippe Lacoue-Labartheʼs Typography (Harvard University Press, 1989). Copyedited and typeset by illuminati www.illuminatibooks.co.uk Production and layout by Peter Osborne and David Cunningham Printed by Russell Press, Russell House, Bulwell Lane, Basford, Nottingham NG6 0BT Bookshop distribution UK: Central Books, 115 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN Tel: 020 8986 4854 USA: Ubiquity Distributors Inc., 607 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, New York 11217 Tel: 718 875 5491 Cover: Arnolfini Egg, 2007 Published by Radical Philosophy Ltd. www.radicalphilosophy.com © Radical Philosophy Ltd L P H and I L O feminist CONTENTS S O P H Y philosophy JULY/AUGUST 2007 COMMENTARY A Fundamental Agreement: The French Presidential Elections Colin Falconer ................................................................................................ 2 ARTICLES: MATERIALS & MATERIALISMS 1 Diderot’s Egg: Divorcing Materialism from Eliminativism Isabelle Stengers ........................................................................................... 7 Going into the Mould: Materials and Process in the Architectural Specification Katie Lloyd Thomas ..................................................................................... 16 Clouds of Architecture Mark Dorrian ................................................................................................ 26 The Inorganic Open: Nanotechnology and Physical Being Nathan Brown ............................................................................................. 33 REVIEWS Eugene Thacker, Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, ed., Code: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy James Tobias ................................................................................................ 45 Iain Hamilton Grant, Philosophies of Nature after Schelling Dustin McWherter ....................................................................................... 49 Alberto Toscano, Th