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The Spectacle of Disintegration by McKenzie Wark
At once an extraordinary counter history of radical praxis and a call to arms in the age of financial crisis and the resurgence of the streets, The Spectacle of Disintegration recalls the hidden journeys taken in the attempt to leave the twentieth century, and plots an exit from the twenty first.
Read "A Cavalier History of Situationism: An Interview with McKenzie Wark" at Rhizome
Authors
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Nancy Fraser
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Annette Fuentes
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Franco Moretti
Franco Moretti teaches Literature at Stanford, where is the Director of the Literary Lab. He is...
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Owen Jones
"A work of passion, sympathy and moral grace." Dwight Garner, New York Times -
Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Professor of South Asian History at Trinity... -
Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of the peace group CODEPINK and the international human rights...
Blog
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Explaining the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Today is Nakba Day - the annual day of commemmoration of the Palestinian catastrophe, the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians.
A selection of Verso's books on the Israel-Palestine conflict, from explanations to considered outcomes.
These are Verso's key books to explain the situation – what others should we include?
The Conflict Explained
The Case for Sanctions Against Israel edited by Audrea Lim
Leading international voices consider all sides of the conflict including boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. With contributions from Angela Davis, John Berger, Naomi Klein, Omar Barghouti, Dalit Baum and Rebecca Vilkomerson.
The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy
The powerful narrative of Israel's invasion and control over Gaza - examining the abandonment of diplomacy in favour of raw military power, turning Gaza into an enormous open-air prison.
“Gideon Levy’s passionate and revealing account is an eloquent, even desperate, call to bring this shocking tragedy to an end, as can easily be done.”
– Noam Chomsky
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Rigoberta Menchú: "We waited 33 years for justice"
Today, Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú appeared on Democracy Now! to talk about the conviction for genocide of former US-backed dictator in Guatemala, Ríoss Montt.
In her memoir, I, Rigoberta Menchú, the author tells the story of the Guatemalan genocidal war in which approximately 250,000 people were killed.
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Conscientious Objector Day - Joe Glenton speaks out
Today is International Conscientious Objector Day and Joe Glenton, Author of Solider box, appears in the Metro discussing what this means.'It's not like you make a choice to be a conscientious objector,' he said. 'It's something that develops over time and goes against the grain of your being.'
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Out Now: The Passion of Bradley Manning by Chase Madar
‘(12:15:11 PM) bradass87: hypothetical question: if you had free reign over classified networks for long periods of time... say, 8–9 months... and you saw incredible things, awful things... things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC... what would you do?’
Described by Peter Tatchell as "a powerful, compelling and moving defense of Bradley Manning", The Passion of Bradley Manning tells the gripping story behind the Wikileaks whistleblower.
Discussions
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Has anyone else read this book?
The comments seem like none of those people have ever read this book - yes, including Mr. Jones. I'm not even thirty pages in and I have learned nothing, except that the cartoon is like vaudeville, and that Felix was awesome. (I've read Felix: The Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat, and I'm sorry to say, it was a much better read than this.)He claims to start in 1928 - and yet talks about nothing but the 19th century for a good two pages. The first chapter is a waste of pages and words.The reason I'm bringing this up is because I'm attempting to write a book on the history of American animation. The books I have found are awful. If anyone could help me find either books pertaining to this subject or could point me in the right direction, I'd be forever indebted. I took this book from the library assuming it would be the best thing I've ever read pertaining to this subject. -
For philosophy, framing the phenomenological gift aligns an eidetic point that begins to bracket in Nothingness, which may or may not give rise to the Encounter. It is a matter of thinking about contingency. The primacy of thinking about contingency is simply the facticity of existing there within the Unconscious and the ether of unreal atoms—parallelism ad nausea. “The world is a ‘gift’ that we have been given,” Althusser elucidated, “the ‘fact of the fact’ that we have not chosen, and it ‘opens up’ before us in the facticity of its contingency, and even beyond this facticity, in what is not merely an observation, but a ‘being-in-the-world’ that commands all possible Meaning.” Opening this gift does frame “being-in-the-world.” There is the possibility of meaning and the meaning of the possibility—there is an effect of fictional subjectivity. There are effects stemming from the facticity of this very contingency of being-in-the-world. It is an eidetic effect as philosophical effect. Philosophy postulates eidetic points. As materialist portrait, nothingness is nothing but the theoretical understanding of non-materiality--the original of Being-- and hence there is a retroactive excursion, more or less, that may or may not find nothingness as a material object that is idyllically graced by the Philosophical Void.
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Not new. not a review by Marx.
These translations are not, as is alleged here, "new". Hanfi translated them 40 years ago. The review "Luther between Strauss and Feuerbach", quoted from here, has been known not to be by Marx for almost as long. See MECW Vol. 1, 1975.