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  • They, the people.

    They, the people.

    "In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."

  • Histoire du cinĂ©ma

    Histoire du cinéma

    With the death of Jean-Luc Godard on the 13th September at the age of 91, cinema lost one of its most important and consistently radical practitioners. Here, Andrew Key looks at his formally innovative late work, including Histoire(s) du cinéma, his monumental eight-part 266-minute experimental video series made between 1988 and 1998.

  • The End of Cinema

    The End of Cinema

    Jean-Luc Godard, the pioneering director who died on the 13th September at the age of 91, began his career with a pioneering series of films, a magnificent run that included the masterpieces À bout de souffle, Vivre sa Vie, Bande à part, Pierrot le Fou, Masculin Féminin and Week-end. Jared Marcel Pollen charts Godard's early career, and the intersection of literature and cinema in it.

  • Vice-President by Theodor Adorno

    Vice-President by Theodor Adorno

    The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

  • Cat out of the bag by Theodor Adorno

    Cat out of the bag by Theodor Adorno

    Solidarity was once intended to make the talk of brotherhood real, by lifting it out of generality, where it was an ideology, and reserving it for the particular, the Party, as the sole representative in an antagonistic world of generality.

  • From the Prison House

    From the Prison House

    The American poet and essayist Adrienne Rich was renowned in her lifetime as an eloquent and militant feminist writer. Less often discussed today is the depth of her engagement with Marx and Marxism. Here, Ciarán O’Rourke analyses Rich's anticapitalist vision.

  • There is nothing innocuous left by Theodor Adorno

    There is nothing innocuous left by Theodor Adorno

    All collaboration, all the human worth of social mixing and par­ticipation, merely masks a tacit acceptance of inhumanity. It is the sufferings of men that should be shared: the smallest step towards their pleasures is one towards the hardening of their pains.