Month: August 2024

Lost at sea

Review of Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History Hannah Proctor The second volume of Peter Weiss’s epic historical novel The Aesthetics of Resistance opens in Paris in 1938. Recently defeated international brigade fighters in the Spanish Civil War, the unnamed narrator and his dejected comrades have taken up temporary residence in a grand building made available by its …

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About time

Review of Gilbert Simondon, Individuation in light of notions of form and individuation Gus Hewlett Simondon’s longest and most philosophically ambitious text has finally arrived in English, in a fine translation by Taylor Adkins. Individuation in light of notions of form and information was originally submitted in 1958 as Simondon’s thèse principale, alongside his thèse secondaire, On the mode of existence of …

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