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  • Verso Spring 2019 Catalogue

    Verso Spring 2019 Catalogue

    Our Spring 2019 catalogue is here! Featuring new books from Fredric Jameson, Natasha Lennard, Priyamvada Gopal, James Meek and more.

  • What is good for Goldman Sachs is good for America: the origins of the current crisis

    What is good for Goldman Sachs is good for America: the origins of the current crisis

    The financial crisis of 2008-9 was the largest and most devastating crisis since the Great Depression. What started on Wall Street soon spread to the rest of world and into the balance sheets of nation states. The cycle of austerity and recession in the subsequent decade is still effecting households and the real economy to this day. But what caused the crisis in the first place? In this now classic essay, Robert Brenner traces the origins of the crisis to the long downturn since the mid '70s, and offers what is still one of the best analyses of the financial system.

  • Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power

    Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power

    In this excerpt from Money, Michel Aglietta insists that money be seen as "an essentially political animal," arguing against the "three lies" relied upon by financial theory and the financial lobby it serves.

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    Defensible Space

    “Megafires” are now a staple of life in the West, but how we talk about them illustrates the tension at the heart of the western myth itself.

  • “A Time Bomb that Everyone Chose to Ignore is Starting to Go Off”: An Interview with Vladimir Safatle

    “A Time Bomb that Everyone Chose to Ignore is Starting to Go Off”: An Interview with Vladimir Safatle

    In his successful presidential campaign, Brazilian far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro has mobilised voters from across the political spectrum. So how can we understand the growing support for authoritarianism in Brazil? Interviewed here for the Portuguese-language edition of Deutsche Welle, Chilean-Brazilian philosopher Vladimir Safatle reads the success of Bolsonaro's “anti-campaign” as the opening shot in an ascendant post-liberal fascist politics that has shifted the locus of action from the streets to the virtual realm.

  • A History of Creativity

    A History of Creativity

    "Creativity is a distinctly neoliberal trait because it feeds the notion that the world and everything in it can be monetized. The language of creativity has been subsumed by capitalism" - an excerpt from the Introduction to Against Creativity by Oli Mould.

  • Thirty Years on from Chile’s “No”: The Symptom of a Neo-Nazi T-Shirt

    Thirty Years on from Chile’s “No”: The Symptom of a Neo-Nazi T-Shirt

    Decades after the military coup, micro-fascism still structures everyday life in Chilean society. But the influence of the Pinochet regime is not only limited to the subcontinent, as a T-shirt with the slogan "Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong", worn by a neo-fascist in Portland, Oregon shows. In this article, Oscar Cabezas tries to understand how an inept dictator is turned into an icon of xenophobia, racism and anti-communism, and argues that this is enabled by the erosion of the public space of politics, and its disconnect from the values that democracy supposedly promotes.