Gillian Rose

Oct 30, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Gillian Rose |Jenny Turner

Suppose​ a friend you trust more than any other, who taught you the meaning of friendship, lets you down suddenly, and then persistently ceases to fulfil the expectations you have come to have of them. Would you give up all your friends? Would you simply avoid that particular friend?

Aug 7, 2024 | jacobin.com | Gillian Rose

It is often remarked that Gillian Rose (1947–1995) is a difficult thinker. She certainly makes few concessions to her reader. Not only do her major works often engage with a prodigious range of disciplines and traditions — from philosophy to theology, legal theory, Judaica, literary modernism, political theory, sociology, even architecture — her style of writing is also variously esoteric, ironic, poetic, and characterized by an almost paradoxical tone of both levity and severity.

Apr 29, 2024 | versobooks.com | Gillian Rose

Lectures on art, Marxism, and critical theory by the legendary philosopher, collected for the first time, with an afterword by Martin JayMarxist Modernism presents for the first time Gillian Rose’s 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School, art, and politics.

Feb 28, 2024 | versobooks.com | Gillian Rose |Jacqueline Rose

In August 1943, the French philosopher Simone Weil died from a cardiac arrest at age 34. The coroner’s report claimed that, after suffering complications from tuberculosis, she had killed herself by refusing to eat, ‘the balance of her mind [...] disturbed’. While the exact reason for Weil’s hunger strike remains unclear, many believe it to have been an act of solidarity with German families living under the Nazi regime.

Jan 26, 2024 | thestyletitle.substack.com | Ilia Sybil Sdralli |Gillian Rose

I have been recently delving into father Slavoj Žižek ’s latest Substack article FIGURES OF THE END OF THE WORLD, mostly part of my much-needed fashion week break. This is where I came across this quote by Alessandro Sbordoni: “As the end gets nearer, more is yet to come” Combined with the fashion world’s seasonal visual overdrive, it made me wonder how Couture today justifies a full Couture Week of its own.