Crises tend to generate apocalyptic dreams and nightmares. Through a reappraisal of 20^th century anti-capitalist thought, Benjamin Noys urges us to critically re-think how such an apocalyptic tone operates within radical analyses of the current crisis

Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged, was recently challenged by film-makers Anja Kirschner and David Panos over his ‘romanticised' account of the development of class consciousness in the first phase of finance ca

Looking through the mists of obligatory sentimentalism that enveloped the 70th aniversary of the outbreak of WWII, James Heartfield remembers the pitiless subordination of people to production on all sides of that crisis

Two recently published books – Anna Minton’s Ground Control and This is Not a Gateway’s Critical Cities – take stock of the accumulated effects of New Labour’s ‘urban renaissance’. In his double review, Owen Hatherley sees the tired politics of micro-resistance go head-to-head with some much needed materialist geography

Late last year Mute was invited to contribute to an online debate on ‘The Good Society' and the future of European Social Democracy, in which participants were given 700 words to answer a long and windy tract by John Cruddas (UK Labour Compass group) and Andrea Nahles (German SPD).

At Manchester Art Gallery's Angels of Anarchy exhibition, the academic processing of Surrealism clashed with some of the movement's defining disavowals. Kenneth Cox reports from the shipwreck of institutional PC

Ben Pritchett dives into the alphabet soup of Brian Rotman's Becoming Beside Ourselves and Joanna Zylinska's Bioethics in the Age of New Media and picks apart the jumbled relations between ethics, new media and subjectivity

Rarely has early 21st century existence felt as epic, as fictional, as it did in September 2008 when the Lehman collapse triggered an avalanche of ficticious value destruction and often dystopian speculation over the future.