In the ‘Freedom of Self-Consciousness’ chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, which follows the better-known parable about the master and the slave, Hegel considers two schools of ancient philosophy: ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Democratic Republic of the Congo is once again in the grip of a violent escalation. In November 2021, an organization known as M23 launched a rebellion in the DRC’s eastern borderlands – the fifth ...

The defenestration of dignity and common sense may be among the lesser tragedies of war. But in late capitalism the cynical, the sinister and the stupid tend to be enfolded in the same apocalyptic ...

The latest tech company to reach the upper echelons of cybernetic capitalism is Nvidia, which fabricates Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), a component of computing-machinery that has become dominant ...

The US political world can today be divided not only between left and right, but along another axis: Trump maximalists and Trump minimalists. Maximalists are inclined to view Trump as an agent or ...

In Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities (1930), set in Vienna on the eve of the First World War, the army general Stumm von Bordwehr asks, ‘How can those directly involved in what’s happening know ...

Preparations for the founding conference of Britain’s new socialist party – provisionally named ‘Your Party’ – are underway. More than 800,000 people have registered as supporters. Local groups, proto ...

The new Marxist culture that emerged in the United States from about 2010 has many merits. It is particularly concerned with empirical reality and focused on tactical and strategic questions. It ...