The Art of the Pause
The ‘slow movement’ and its implications for contemporary art.
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The Death of the Greek Left: A Political Tragedy
Stefanos Kasselakis's victory in the SYRIZA leadership contest marks a traumatic break from the party's political traditions, raising the question: where goes the Greek left go from here?
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C.L.R. James: Brett St Louis & Arun Kundnani
Brett St Louis and Arun Kundnani join Eleanor Penny to discuss the life, work and legacy of radical scholar C.L.R. James. -
Cat and Mouse: The Copernican Inversion Outside Work
The history of monetary scams – from the coin clipping shown in the recent BBC drama The Gallow’s Pole, to the Spanish Anarchist and bricklayer who forged millions of travellers cheques in the 1960s and 1970s – shows how workers' resistance is still key to capitalist development. -
The grey market of Twitch streams
Twitch Bits are money-ish, and they are far more than the sum of their worth.
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Frantz Fanon and the Psychiatry of the Colonised Subject
“Independence, he hoped, would produce the spiritual and material conditions for the emergence of a new, decolonised subject.”
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The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx
In this interview, Isabelle Garo expounds on her work in Karl Marx à 20 ans, de la colère au communisme, speaking about the young Marx, revolutionary politics, and what Marx has to offer young socialist organizers today. -
The Conservative Party’s decline might be one it never recovers from.
“The smart money is on the Tories falling into one of those episodic sea-change moments like 1945 and 1997.”
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The Populist Tactic
"The internet has simply exacerbated the pre-existing trends of the neoliberal period. But at the same time, the internet is not solely a means of communication. It is a social form—a type of association or community, or a machine to generate 'imagined communities.'" -
A letter to Cybele: Goddess of thresholds, transitions, and street raves.
"If you’ll pardon the anachronism: you have always had a special relation to us t-girls.”
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Talking shit
What links Karl Marx, William S. Burroughs, Dalit struggles in India and the Yetties' famous Muckspreader Song? Ed Emery writes on the centrality of excrement, both metaphorical and literal, to the modern world.
