After the death of one bourgeois bloc, it’s time to kill off another
Paul Elek argues that the only way to prevent a fascist government in France is a united response from the social and political left.
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Publishing in a crisis
In response to the BLM protests, book publishers from giant majors to tiny indies rushed to respond. Nothing comparable has happened in response to the genocide in Gaza. But what role should publishers have in times of crisis, if any at all? And can they show solidarity without diluting a movement's radicalism? -
The Disordering of Attention
Claire Bishop examines the way we look at art and performance today. -
A Shit Sandwich
Frédéric Lordon makes the case for voting for France's "New Popular Front" – formed by La France Insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Greens, the Communist Party and some smaller formations – in Saturday's snap first election round. -
Balzac’s Paris in the dark and in the light
Explore Paris arm in arm with Balzac, 19th century France’s most famous novelist and observer. -
Oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them
Geoffrey Wheatcroft analyses the turmoil of the Tory party.
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Marxist interpretation as a vocation
For our Jameson at 90 series, Anna Kornbluh revisits Fredric Jameson's project to theorize Marx's Capital as a representation in his book Representing Capital. -
The Rebus in Fredric Jameson’s The Hegel Variations
Andrew Cole revisits Fredric Jameson's The Hegel Variations through notes he took as a graduate student in Jameson's seminars for our Jameson at 90 series. -
Jameson’s complex chord
Sianne Ngai likens the totality of Fredric Jameson's work to a musical composition, hitting key notes that synthesize in the composer's master chord. The work that most embodies this phenomenon, she argues, is Jameson's Valences of Dialectic. -
The Student Intifada
The Research & Destroy collective reflect on the student occupations against the ongoing genocide in Gaza in the long struggle both for Palestinian liberation and of student activism, and asks, after its violent repression, where it goes from here. -
Roots
A youth-led organization provides support, empowerment, and reasons for hope to families displaced by the war on Gaza. -
Productivity’s Progress (from This World, to That Which Is to Come)
Beverley Best identifies the critique of value as the central through line of Capital III.
