In the last few days, two Internet controversies have illustrated the political dynamic currently at work in France: a video published by a fascist Youtuber known as ‘Papacito’, which staged the execution of a voter for La France Insoumise; and a tweet by media philosopher Raphaël Enthoven announcing that he would rather vote for Le Pen than Mélenchon.
Returning home after a long absence, N. was greatly alarmed that the people of his country seemed quite as unprepared to deal with the anticipated advent of the Blonde Beast as they had been with the challenge of the pandemic.
The abundance of commodities indiscriminately consumed is becoming calamitous. It makes it impossible to find one's way, and just as in a gigantic department store one looks out for a guide, the population wedged between wares await their leader.
A manifesto written in 1990 by ACT UP.
Phil Jones on the commonplace use of new age references among QAnon supporters, and the historic connections between mysticism and fascism
An interview with Enzo Traverso by Andrea Brazzoduro
Greater Manchester Housing Action is an organisation at the forefront of fighting Manchester’s neoliberal urban development. Members Tom Gillespie, Isaac Rose and Jonathan Silver explore the role that Blairite 'urban entrepreneurialism' has played in both the cynical commodification of Manchester's rich cultural heritage and the burgeoning housing crisis in the city.
Susan Sontag introduces Walter Benjamin by dissecting his own words and the words of his peers. All through the inescapable lens of Benjamin's melancholy.
Residents in South Leeds are fighting back against private developers who want to demolish their affordable homes and break apart their community. Community organiser Luke Dukinfield reports on the resistance of local residents in the LS26 Save Our Homes campaign.
Cities in the UK are reproducing the pattern of those in other countries, where the poor and non-white are consigned to the periphery. Where housing is more affordable, but where poverty and social alienation are widespread. Glyn Robbins on the covert institutional racism of UK housing policy.
Truly terrifying are the sleepless nights when time seems to contract and run fruitlessly through our hands. But what is revealed in such contraction of the hours is the reverse of time fulfilled.
The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique.