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162 Editorial collective Claudia Aradau, Matthew Charles, David Cunningham, Howard Feather, Peter Hallward, Esther Leslie, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford, Chris Wilbert Contributors Haukur Már Helgason teaches philosophy at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. He is a founding member of the experimental literary band Nýhil.
Alberto Toscano teaches in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Verso, 2010).
Matthew Charles recently completed a PhD at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, Speculative Experience and History: Walter Benjamin’s Goethean Kantianism. Barbara Cassin is a director of research at CNRS (Centre Léon Robin, University of Paris–IV Sorbonne), author of L’effet sophistique (1995) and editor of Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies (Seuil/Le Robert, 2004).
Philippe Büttgen is a director of research at CNRS (Laboratoire d’Études sur les Monothéismes). His books include Lire Michel de Certeau: ‘La Formalité des pratiques’ (with Christian Jouhaud von Klostermann, 2008).
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philosophy july/august 2010
Commentary Inside a Charging Bull: Iceland, One Year On Haukur Már Helgason . .................................................................................. 2
article Everybody Thinks: Deleuze, Descartes and Rationalism Alberto Toscano .............................................................................................. 8
Imaginative Mislocation: Hiroshima’s Genbaku Dome, Ground Zero of the Twentieth Century Matthew Charles........................................................................................... 18
dossier Universities The Performative without Condition, a University sans appel Barbara Cassin and Philippe Büttgen......................................................... 31
The University and the Plan: Reflections from Vienna.......................... 38 Case Study – From Fiasco to Carnival: The End of Philosophy at Middlesex?............................................................................................... 40 Occupation.................................................................................................... 46 Westminster, Sussex, King’s… . .............................................................. 47
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David Chandler, Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance Stuart Elden, Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty R.B.J. Walker, After the Globe, Before the World Peter Hitchcock . ........................................................................................... 48 Perry Anderson, The New Old World Michael Newman.......................................................................................... 52 Peter D. Thomas, The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism Mark McNally................................................................................................. 56 Jean-François Lyotard, Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History David van Dusen ...............................