New Left Review: Issue 98 Out Now!
Susan Watkins: The New Oppositions
After years of economic crisis and social protest, the cartel parties of the extreme centre now face a challenge to their dominance from outside- left forces in a number of Western countries. Contours of the emergent left oppositions, their platforms and gureheads, from Tsipras to Corbyn, Sanders to MeĢlenchon, Grillo to Iglesias.
Luc Boltanski & Arnaud Esquerre: Enriching Things
Collection and assetātwo ideal-typical logics through which value and price are established and objects āenrichedā. From luxury goods to heritage villages and the mimetic effects of speculation; as industrial production is transferred to East Asia, the emergence of a new kind of capitalist economy.
Joe Trapido: Kinshasaās Theatre of Power
The drcās capital is set to become Africaās largest city, but struggles to assert its authority over a profoundly fractured state as it expands in chaotic fashion. Dilapidated infrastructure and a disintegrating formal economy have not extinguished Kinshasaās extraordinary cultural vitality, or its role as a centre of political opposition.
ZoĢe Sutherland: Global Conceptualisms
First global art movement or mere identity of a New York set? Potpourri of avant-garde practices or formalist tautology? A survey of Conceptual Artās crystallization, among international neo-avant-gardes and the artistic networks of global centres, between an abstract global imaginary and its concrete contestations.
Suhas Palshikar: Who Is Delhiās Common Man?
The Aam Aadmi Party emerged from mass anti-corruption protests to sweep the board in regional elections for Indiaās capital city. Can its rule in Delhi open up space for popular mobilization on the national stage, challenging the rise of communalism, or will the party be sucked into humdrum parliamentary routines?
NLR 98 also contains the following book reviews:
Neil Davidson on James Harris, Hume. Ground-breaking biography of the Scottish Enlightenmentās man of letters.
David Lau on Piotr Gwiazda, us Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979ā2012. American civic poetry from Vietnam to Occupy Wall Street.
Ian Birchall on Michael Goebel, Anti-Imperial Metropolis. Interwar Paris as incubator of anti-colonial revolt.