History is what hurts
Maria Elisa Cevasco reflects on Fredric Jameson's Political Unconscious for the fifth instalment of our Jameson at 90 series.
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The Novel of Lenin: Chapter Five
The fifth installment of our nine-part series: The Novel of Lenin by Joseph Andras: The Insurrection Begins, The Role of the Soviet, Repression. -
From Scratch
Recent months have seen the inexorable rise of the tradwife: the social media influencer who embodies an idealized aesthetic of wifehood. Sarah Brouillette and Astrid Lorange draw up a morbid symptomology of the new anti-feminism. -
Climate Colonialism: Ann Pettifor & Hamza Hamouchene
Ann Pettifor and Hamza Hamouchene join The Verso Podcast to discuss finance capitalism, energy sovereignty, and green colonialism. -
Writers, the time to speak out for Palestine is now!
Sarah Bernstein and Yara Rodrigues Fowler encourage UK-based writers to join the Society of Authors and vote in favour of a motion calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. -
The Novel of Lenin: Chapter Four
The fourth installment of our nine-part series: The Novel of Lenin by Joseph Andras: Vladimir Becomes Lenin, First Meeting with Trotsky. -
There Can Be No Critique
Hamas's attacks on October 7 have sparked a public discussion about the nature of solidarity and how to support the fight for a free Palestine. Here, Judith Butler offers a brief response to Jodi Dean's recent critique of their position on Palestine solidarity alongside a republication of their essay "There Can Be No Critique." -
On Fredric Jameson's Fables of Aggression: Jameson at 90
Fredric Jameson was born 90 years ago today. To mark the occasion, Ian Buchanan explores Jameson's inimitable "immunity to boredom" through his 1979 book, Fables of Aggression. -
Intense Curiosity: Jameson's The Prison-House of Language
Fredric Jameson's Prison House of Language (1972) is inspiring, Matthew Beaumont writes, because of the author's 'intense curiosity' vis-a-vis the Russian Structuralists. For Jameson's 90th birthday, Beaumont revisits the text, which he describes as anomalous in the theorist's oeuvre. -
The Novel of Lenin: Chapter Three
The third installment of our nine-part series: The Novel of Lenin by Joseph Andras. -
Crooked Plow Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
"An evocative journey into the heart of rural Brazil, which speaks to the importance of remembering our histories and protecting the land that sustains us." — International Booker Prize 2024
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Watch: Mohamed Amer Meziane discusses THE STATES OF THE EARTH
If modernity is the Anthropocene, and modernity is the product of secularization, then what is the connection between secularization and the climate crisis?
