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on the occasion of the Marx bicentennial anniversary, Barker argued: "The key factor in Marx’s intellectual legacy in our present-day society is not 'philosophy' but 'critique,' or what he described in 1843 as 'the ruthless criticism of all that exists: ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid
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Most notable for his translation and introductions to the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Barker draws on an eclectic range of influences including
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of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be'".
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Barker is the writer, director and producer of the 2011 partly animated documentary film
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as "a great introduction to Marx for a new generation" while German political scientist
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in the College of Foreign Language and Literature, where he teaches a masters course on
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is "an imaginative, uplifting, and sometimes disturbing alternative history".
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has called it "the type of film that Marx himself would have approved of".
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described it as "urious, funny, perplexing, and irreverent". According to
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in February 2012, Barker criticised the selective interpretation of
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Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
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See Barker, "De L'État au Maître: Badiou et le post-marxisme".
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Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
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Barker was born in London, England. He studied at the
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Marx Reloaded. Interviews on Capitalism and Communism
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Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
Cardiff University
Kyung Hee University
Karl Marx
Alain Badiou
Jacques Lacan
Marx Returns
Marx Reloaded
French philosophy
Kyung Hee University
Marxism
philosopher
Ray Brassier
European Graduate School
Alain Badiou
Judith Butler
Jacques Rancière
Avital Ronell
Slavoj Žižek
neoplatonism
Lacanian psychoanalysis
Marxism
post-Marxism
Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
Cardiff University
The Guardian
Karl Marx
Nouriel Roubini
global recession

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