This October, Verso is hosting a roundtable on Silvia Federici’s incantatory and incendiary Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (2004), inviting reflections from activists, writers, and scholars to discuss the provocations of Federici’s arguments on capitalism and colonialism, bodies and reproduction, race and slavery—and the powerful figure of the witch.
Jessie Kindig, editor of the Verso Book of Feminism, shares her feminist Halloween selections.
For Žižek, the metaphor of the Matrix represents how neoliberal capitalism colonises culture and subjectivity.
In this excerpt from The Third Unconscious: The Psychosphere in the Viral Age, Franco "Bifo" Berardi discusses the significance of the massive George Floyd protests. Berardi analyzes the conditions of this insurrection as a response both to structural domination, racism, and violence, as well as the alienation of late stage capitalism.
Everything in Bowie’s post-modern art was mutable, but most of all the artist himself.
Sixty years ago this month, French police massacred an estimated two hundred Algerians in Paris during a peaceful demonstration in support of an independent Algeria. At the FLN's request, Renault factory workers and leftist activists Clara and Henri Benoits attended the demonstration as observers. They recount what they witnessed in this fascinating interview.
Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter wrote about Eric Zemmour, the far-right political sensation currently surging in French presidential polls, in their book Reactionary Democracy (2020). Check out this extract to learn more about Zemmour and the reactionary politics he's brought to the mainstream in France.
In this interview, Thierry Discepolo discusses publishing, politics, the challenges of producing radical books in a capitalist industry
Far-right French pundit-turned-politician Eric Zemmour has recently surged in presidential polls, sparking speculation about the upcoming election. Ugo Palheta urges against such hasty analyses, reflecting instead on the broader trends in French politics which Zemmour's rise exemplifies
Left publishing is experiencing a long-overdue renaissance internationally. In this interview, Nicolas Vieillescazes shares his experience building a new editorial programme with Editions Amsterdam and advancing political analysis through publishing.
"The main intervention we wanted to make with this book, in my opinion, was to make the case clearly and strongly that we have been duped into thinking that climate change is a problem of consumption rather than production."
–Rosie Warren, editor
"Who owns outer space? And why are Silicon Valley billionaires so very obsessed about blasting off in rockets to spend time on Mars?" –Leo Hollis, editor