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A Rough Passage to Navigate

By Stefan Szczelkun 2 October 2014

Stefan Szczelkun reviews Everard M. Phillips, The Political Calypso: a sociolinguistic process of conflict transformation   For Everard M. ...

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The Difficult Theory of a Mad World

By Chris Wright 13 August 2014

From its central question, 'what does critical theory have to do with the critique of political economy?', Werner Bonefeld’s new book, reviewed here...

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Doing More with Less

By Geoffrey Wildanger 4 August 2014

Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory’s first exhibition in a new building, New Habits, raises crucial questions for Geoffrey Wildanger: what ...

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To Live is to Swerve

By Ann Deslandes 13 November 2013

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

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Is the University a Factory?

By Susan Kelly 10 October 2013

Reviewing Gerald Raunig’s recent book on the industrialisation of knowledge and creativity, Susan Kelly questions how accurate the metaphor of ‘fa...

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Microbial Communism

By Benjamin Noys 24 September 2013

Communist futurist Bruno Jasieński's incredible novel, I Burn Paris, casts a plague upon the crisis-ridden Paris of the 1930s as the backdr...

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From Eternity to Here

By Sean Bonney 3 September 2013

Responding to the publication of a new edition of communard Blanqui's elliptical cosmic work, Eternity by the Stars, Sea...

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The Emancipated Spectator

By Stefan Szczelkun 17 August 2013

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 Schoolma...

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Ambivalent Variations

By Michael Reid 24 July 2013

Michael Reid submits to the hyper-saturated sound of Scott Walker’s recent album Bish Bosch   1.   Hard to begin this, very....

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