Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest has been read by critics as a reflection of the banality of evil. But, what if it in its materialist insistence on impersonal forces, it is actually about not evil's banality but its ubiquity?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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