Author C. A. Davids was born and lives in Cape Town, but has lived in New York and Shanghai, and in this formally complex and transnational novel, she sets these worlds into orbit around each other, but doesn’t try to make them neatly align.
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On American Beauty, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm, and what each can teach us about the nature of human needs under capitalism.
Paul Levi remembers the murdered German Communists.
Maid, the recent Netflix miniseries, follows Alex as she moves from underemployed gig worker to a creative writing degree. In doing so it embodies another form of the capitalist progress narrative where everone becomes an indebted investor in their own human capital.
Jean-Luc Nancy on religion in the modern world.
Here, published for the first time, is an extract from the renowned socialist cultural theorist Raymond Williams's famous ‘When Was Modernism?’ lecture, delivered at the University of Bristol in March 1987, and taken from the newly published Culture and Politics: Class, Writing, Socialism – the first Williams book for more than three decades to include new material.
Originally delivered at a conference in Paris in 2015, here Judith Butler discusses the work of philosopher Ernesto Laclau – who she describes as "one of the truly great thinkers in our lifetimes" – in relation to that of Marx, and to the power of the negative.
Previously unpublished essay on the town of Halifax as a centre of Chartist activity by historians Dorothy Thompson and E.P. Thompson.
An unpublished essay by the historian and leading member of the Communist Party Historians' Group Dorothy Thompson on the Communist Party of Great Britain.
"Julian Assange is a victim of torture and inhuman treatment. This is a threat not just to Assange himself but to freedom of speech everywhere in the world. Nils Melzer’s book is the essential, utterly forensic analysis of this case."
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