‘As your jet starts its descent, you are glued to your window. The scene below is astonishing: a 24-square-mile archipelago of coral-coloured islands in the shape of an almost-finished puzzle of the ...

Fred Jameson, unceasingly productive to the end, died in September at the age of ninety. His legacy is so large that no short-range attempt to take the measure of it is practicable. I’ve written about ...

Agarden gnome is no longer a garden gnome. This is the dilemma facing contemporary art, that is circumscribed by the unhappy concept of post-modernity.footnote ＊ Up until a certain moment (let us take ...

Before I first went to university I had a belief, which I still have, and which is probably shared by the great majority of you.footnote ＊ I mean the belief that the way to decide whether a given ...

The real merit of the critique made by Margaret Coulson, Branka Magaš and Hilary Wainwright of my analysis of domestic labourfootnote 1 is that it focusses discussion about the strategic relation of ...

From the outset, the Cuban revolution was determined to assert its independence. The island’s foreign policy was shaped by a dual impulse: a revolutionary desire to multiply the fronts of resistance ...

French philosophy in the twentieth century was marked above all by two projects.footnote 1 For the sake of simplicity we might distinguish them with the labels of ‘subject’ and ‘science’. On the one ...

Karl Korsch was born in 1886 in Todstedt near Hamburg. What was his family back-ground? The first 11 years in that small town on the Lüneburg Heath had a very strong influence on Karl. He could speak ...

The immediate effect of the rise of Futuro Nazionale is to have shifted public debate even further to the right, with a race ...

What is the problem described today by feminism? A decade ago, a generation of women – now in our late twenties and early thirties – claimed it as a primary political identity, but no longer. Among ...

We seem to have entered a period of war without end, extending across the globe and unsettling even the central nodes of the world system. Each contemporary conflict has its own genealogy and stakes, ...

When the multi-hyphenate scholar of science Bruno Latour died last October at the age of 75, tributes poured in from all corners of academia and many beyond. In the aughts, Latour had been a ...