What follows is rather like the famous courtroom scene in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai (1947).footnote 1 In that noir allegory of proletarian virtue in the embrace of ruling-class decadence, ...

So $1 million against $4,000 seems like a good exchange for Iran. And they can produce these drones at a mass scale. If you look at Orientalist writings from the nineteenth century onwards, it was ...

The decisive point about capitalism is rather that it is a society in which the principal means of production are privately ...

Élisabeth is certainly distinguished by extensive descriptions of ‘material facts’: settings, objects, gestures. When Claire ...

Most analysts had expected the Democratic Centre, built on the cult of personality surrounding former president Álvaro Uribe ...

Mario del Pero on Anders Stephanson, American Imperatives. Critical reflections on the Cold War as a strategy of US ...

Ilya Budraitskis on Benjamin Nathans, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause. Compelling account of the friendship networks of ...

Julian Stallabrass on Trevor Paglen, How to See Like a Machine. An American artist documents and explores the arrival of the ...

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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, ...

In a dizzying sequence, a student heroine is whirled back through the years to awaken at the scene of her own funeral in the 1980s. As the assembled mourners go through their formal bows, she stirs on ...