The Man Who Closed The Asylums
In 1961 an Italian mental asylum on the iron curtain got a new director. Within seven years he changed the face of contemporary psychiatry.
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The Art of the Pause
The ‘slow movement’ and its implications for contemporary art.
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The Death of the Greek Left: A Political Tragedy
Stefanos Kasselakis's victory in the SYRIZA leadership contest marks a traumatic break from the party's political traditions, raising the question: where goes the Greek left go from here?
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C.L.R. James: Brett St Louis & Arun Kundnani
Brett St Louis and Arun Kundnani join Eleanor Penny to discuss the life, work and legacy of radical scholar C.L.R. James. -
Cat and Mouse: The Copernican Inversion Outside Work
The history of monetary scams – from the coin clipping shown in the recent BBC drama The Gallow’s Pole, to the Spanish Anarchist and bricklayer who forged millions of travellers cheques in the 1960s and 1970s – shows how workers' resistance is still key to capitalist development. -
The grey market of Twitch streams
Twitch Bits are money-ish, and they are far more than the sum of their worth.
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Frantz Fanon and the Psychiatry of the Colonised Subject
“Independence, he hoped, would produce the spiritual and material conditions for the emergence of a new, decolonised subject.”
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The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx
In this interview, Isabelle Garo expounds on her work in Karl Marx à 20 ans, de la colère au communisme, speaking about the young Marx, revolutionary politics, and what Marx has to offer young socialist organizers today. -
The Conservative Party’s decline might be one it never recovers from.
“The smart money is on the Tories falling into one of those episodic sea-change moments like 1945 and 1997.”
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The Populist Tactic
"The internet has simply exacerbated the pre-existing trends of the neoliberal period. But at the same time, the internet is not solely a means of communication. It is a social form—a type of association or community, or a machine to generate 'imagined communities.'" -
A letter to Cybele: Goddess of thresholds, transitions, and street raves.
"If you’ll pardon the anachronism: you have always had a special relation to us t-girls.”
