Category Archives: Alberto Toscano

Toscano and Kotsko on Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory

In a 2011 paper for Angelaki Alberto Toscano offers some critical remarks on Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory; Adam Kotsko responds. The latter is part of a symposium on the book at the Equinox Political Theology blog.

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Millennium conference – date correction

Please note the date 20-21 October 2012 is correct – not as previously advertised.

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Materialism and World Politics – Millennium conference

Update: this conference is 20-21 October 2012, not as previously advertised:

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Marx Reloaded UK premiere

Details here; and an interview with the director here.

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Marx Reloaded poster

I linked to the trailer before, but this is the poster for the film. Clicking on it will take you to a larger image. As has been pointed out on facebook already, Sloterdijk is making some kind of move on … Continue reading

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Marx Reloaded trailer

Featuring Slavoj Žižek, Antonio Negri, Nina Power, Alberto Toscano… Trotsky as Morpheus is good too.

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Toscano discusses Fanaticism

I’ve mentioned Alberto Toscano’s interesting book Fanaticism before. Here he is talking about the book on Radio 4 with Laurie Taylor and John Gray (begins about 14 minutes in) and in a video on The Guardian website. And this is … Continue reading

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Roundup

Interesting review of Alberto Toscano’s Fanaticism book on The Guardian website (via Verso blog) Video of Quentin Meillassoux in action here (in French, via Graham Harman) I finished Wu Ming’s 54. Quite good and some nice moments. Think Eco or Pynchon … Continue reading

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Alberto Toscano – Fanaticism

Just finished reading Alberto Toscano’s book Fanaticism. A very interesting book and a great project – a kind of genealogy or conceptual history of the uses and abuses of the term. Lots of interesting ideas and a lot to take … Continue reading

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Cartographies of the Absolute

Infinite Thought reports that Alberto Toscano has a new project underway. There is a blog and a forthcoming book written with Jeff Zinkle on cognitive mapping with Zer0. Looking interesting. Alberto was a PhD student at Warwick when I taught … Continue reading

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