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A literary criticism of the book "Althusser's Lesson" by Jacques Rancière is presented. It examines the polemic discontinuity in the Foreword of the book and considers the significance of the expansion of the arguments in the Appendix. It illustrates the core principles of Althusserianism as well as highlights the concept of academic Marxism.

The author of the article analyzes the concepts of infrapolitcs and the impolitical in modern political philosophy, focusing upon the writings of political philosophers, particularly Roberto Esposito and Alberto Moreiras. It is argued that Esposito and Moreiras believe that infrapolitics and the impolitical have moved into the realm of philosophy, which is a decision the author asserts is in favor of inaction as a remedy to political activism. The concepts of parapolitics, archipolitics, and metapolitics are also discussed, as are the writings of several philosophers on these subjects, such as Karl Marx, Thomas Hobbes, and Jacques Rancière.

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The article discusses the metaphysical concepts of materialism and time. It incorporates musings from such thinkers as 20th-century German philosopher Martin Heidegger, Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, French philosophers Michel Foucault and Alain Badiou, and American Marxist literary critic Fredric Jameson.

The article presents an editorial about the October 1968 student protests and violence in Mexico City. The author focuses on reactions to the protests by artists and thinkers, including poet Octavio Paz. The author states that the event was shrouded in mystery and disinformation and only more recently have facts been made public that clarify the chronology of the events.

Critique of Pure Leftist Reason. Contemporary political theory witnesses an attempt to construct a concept of communism that no longer bears any reference to historical communism or Marxism. Taking his cue from the work of French philosopher Alain Badiou, the author of this article reviews and analyses this trend, and he argues that this 'new' notion of communism turns out to be form of speculative leftism. In stark contrast with this contemporary re-conceptualization of communism by Jean-Luc Nancy and Antonio Negri, among others, Alain Badiou constructs his own notion of communism and Marxism, which can be read as an attempt to clarify communism's historical failure as well as its claim to 'explain' history. Communism, Badiou argues, is more than an invariant utopia only when it takes into account its material determination through the history and crisis of Marxism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contends that Latin American subaltern studies have emerged from the rational core of Marxism and historico-political and deconstructive and philosophico-theoretical. Historical sources of Marxism; Overview of Latin American scholars engaged in subaltern studies; Result of the tensions and incompatibilities between the two sources of subaltern thinking; Challenge posed by the phenomena of cultural hybridity to subaltern studies.

The article presents an obituary for Argentine philosopher Leon Rozitchner.

A literary criticism of the book "The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process," by Alain Badiou is presented. It outlines the retournement as key to aesthetic process autonomy and examines how the truth in art is placed in the groundwork, the focus on individual artworks and their philosophical treatment and the comparison with the works of Jacques Ranciere as a fellow Althusserian. An overview of the relation between ideology and art is also given.