Reviews

Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory’s first exhibition in a new building, New Habits, raises crucial questions for Geoffrey Wildanger: what has to happen when one has to do more with less? What, or where, are the 'commons' in austerity Europe?

A Review of Angela Mitropoulos’s Contract and Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia, Minor Compositions, New York, 2012, by Ann Deslandes

Reviewing Gerald Raunig’s recent book on the industrialisation of knowledge and creativity, Susan Kelly questions how accurate the metaphor of ‘factory’, with its associated figure of the wage-labourer, really is in these individualising and precarious times

Communist futurist Bruno Jasieński's incredible novel, I Burn Paris, casts a plague upon the crisis-ridden Paris of the 1930s as the backdrop to a cycle of civil war, revolutionary defeat and eventual victory. Benjamin Noys reviews this recently recovered classic

Speaking to Arthur Ransome in 1919 Lenin remarked that he believed that revolution was imminent in England. He went on

This is a set of five essays that follow up themes of the equality of intelligence formulated more than 25 years earlier in The Ignorant Schoolmaster (1981) and Proletarian Nights (1981). See my previous blogs (reposted from http://stefan-szczelkun.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-emancipated-spectator-2008-this-is.html)

Chapter 1 The Emancipated Spectator

Michael Reid submits to the hyper-saturated sound of Scott Walker’s recent album Bish Bosch

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Josephine Berry Slater reviews the ASC gallery’s show Mutagen