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  • Vice-President by Theodor Adorno

    Vice-President by Theodor Adorno

    The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

  • Cat out of the bag by Theodor Adorno

    Cat out of the bag by Theodor Adorno

    Solidarity was once intended to make the talk of brotherhood real, by lifting it out of generality, where it was an ideology, and reserving it for the particular, the Party, as the sole representative in an antagonistic world of generality.

  • From the Prison House

    From the Prison House

    The American poet and essayist Adrienne Rich was renowned in her lifetime as an eloquent and militant feminist writer. Less often discussed today is the depth of her engagement with Marx and Marxism. Here, Ciarán O’Rourke analyses Rich's anticapitalist vision.

  • There is nothing innocuous left by Theodor Adorno

    There is nothing innocuous left by Theodor Adorno

    All collaboration, all the human worth of social mixing and par­ticipation, merely masks a tacit acceptance of inhumanity. It is the sufferings of men that should be shared: the smallest step towards their pleasures is one towards the hardening of their pains.

  • The Apocalyptic Sublime

    The Apocalyptic Sublime

    The internet is replete with images of commodities in the process of destruction. From the homes sucked into rising tides to stuffed toys crushed between the teeth of an hydraulic press, what does such an apocolyptic sublime tell us about the relationship between the image and contemporary capitalism?

  • Jean-Luc Godard

    Jean-Luc Godard

    In honor of Jean-Luc Godard's recent death, we're republishing Peter Wollen's essay on the great director, originally published in Paris Hollywood.

  • The Case for Degrowth

    The Case for Degrowth

    The Covid-19 pandemic further exposed a world geared toward collapse – degrowth argues that we should radically change our economic system to save the planet and build a more sustainable world for all.