Bulgarian sociologist Jivko Georgiev has sharply diagnosed the impasse: ‘We live in a present so impotent that it lacks the ...
Everything else lies, as Clausewitz said, in the fog of the expanding battlefield. Read on: Susan Watkins, ‘Trump Abroad’, ...
Gradually, what was unsayable becomes sayable and then received wisdom, without acknowledgement of the shift, and hence ...
Jack Spicer’s reputation rests on a clutch of perfect books he left behind after dying of alcoholism in 1965. These include the luminous ‘untranslations’ After Lorca (1957), the unclassifiable satire ...
The ‘crisis of care’ is currently a major topic of public debate.footnote 1 Often linked to ideas of ‘time poverty’, ‘family-work balance’, and ‘social depletion’, it refers to the pressures from ...
Speculation about the character of Ukania’s incoming Labour government tends to be projective. For the self-described Marxist Paul Mason, Keir Starmer’s outlook is ‘socialist and internationalist’, ...
Under capitalism, the only thing worse than being exploited is not being exploited. Since the beginnings of the wage-labour economy, wageless life has been a calamity for those dispossessed of land, ...
Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American Growth offers a vast narrative, encompassing some 150 years of us economic history since 1870, with prospective views up to 2040 or so.footnote 1 The ...
Now, Agamben is both wrong and right; or rather, drastically wrong and somewhat right. He is wrong because the basic facts contradict him. Even great thinkers can die of contagion—Hegel perished from ...
Can socialists, radical environmentalists and feminists from other traditions safely dismiss ecofeminism? In this paper I offer both a critique of ecofeminism and a modified defence. On the one hand, ...