Psychedelic Multiverses: Cleansing the present of a dead Capitalist Future
Oli Mould, author of Against Creativtiy, on the post-covid shift to aesthetic imaginaries of alternative planetary presents.
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Posts tagged: covid-19
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Back to the present. Global Spaces, Pandemic crises and Ecological Counter-Powers.
How can we develop a theory and practice of ecological counterpower that is commensurate to the coming catastrophe? Davide Gallo Lassere on the limits of Andreas Malm's ecological Leninism.
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Politics after Populism and the Pandemic
Paolo Gerbaudo, author of The Great Recoil, discusses the legacy and future of populism with researcher Giorgos Venizelos
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Twenty-First Century Fascism: Where We Are
Enzo Traverso on post-fascism in times of pandemic.
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Escape from Planet Florida
Benjamin Bratton, author of THE REVENGE OF THE REAL, explores the implications of vaccine mandates as COVID numbers rise and new variants appear. Weighing the alternatives, he warns against the "Florida model" of laissez-faire and denialist biopolitics.
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The End of Neoliberalism?
Anton Jäger reflects on Paolo Gerbaudo's The Great Recoil, neoliberalism, and the evolving role of the state in the Covid-era
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Reckoning without the host: Can the Left afford to ditch the liberals?
How should the left position itself strategically vis-a-vis liberalism in this new political moment? Carlo Invernizzi Accetti on socialist strategy in Paolo Gerbaudo's The Great Recoil.
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Thinking The Great Recoil from the Margins
As part of our roundtable on Paolo Gerbaudo's The Great Recoil, Gabriel Hetland writes about populism, sovereignty, and what the US and European lefts can learn from comrades in Latin America.
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Étienne Balibar: ‘We are not equal in terms of either the risk or the measures taken against it.’
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing the state to remake itself through, among other things, monetary police and public services. In this important interview, Etienne Balibar reflects on democracy, revolution, and neoliberal capitalism in the Coronavirus era.
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The Climate Crisis and COVID-19
A hope for a livable future and just systems of care lies in our ability to mobilize and organize.
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Agamben WTF, or How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic
Benjamin Bratton on why philosophy failed us in facing up to the pandemic, and why we need to rethink biopolitics as a matter of life and death.
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The Revenge of the Real: a Letter from the Editor
Can we rethink biopolitics–the questions of life and death–in the long shadow of COVID and climate change?
