Everything else lies, as Clausewitz said, in the fog of the expanding battlefield. Read on: Susan Watkins, ‘Trump Abroad’, ...

It’s a poetics of dislocation, estrangement, playing along. We have to put all our trust in the poem, both reader and writer ...

Like so many of his characters, he remains animate in death, a granite eminence that turns its head, winks, scowls and ...

Basim Musallam (1943–2025).

Under capitalism, the only thing worse than being exploited is not being exploited. Since the beginnings of the wage-labour economy, wageless life has been a calamity for those dispossessed of land, ...

Lucio Magri was a unique figure in the European Left— the only significant revolutionary thinker of his time whose thought was inseparable from the course of the mass movements of the decades through ...

The ‘crisis of care’ is currently a major topic of public debate.footnote 1 Often linked to ideas of ‘time poverty’, ‘family-work balance’, and ‘social depletion’, it refers to the pressures from ...

Norbert Wiener, in the early 1960s, foresaw a parallel between the process of automation and the nature of magic as it has been depicted in countless fantasies, from Goethe’s tale of the sorcerer’s ...

There was also, of course, his fine contempt for the democrats of those years, who had received power for free, without a struggle, as if they had just found it in the street. So most of the ideas ...

Now, Agamben is both wrong and right; or rather, drastically wrong and somewhat right. He is wrong because the basic facts contradict him. Even great thinkers can die of contagion—Hegel perished from ...

This approach has the further, not insignificant advantage of making it possible to introduce a temporal dimension into the discussion. For populism has not always been deployed as it is today, and ...