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  • Breath

    Breath

    Her mere presence made other people feel ill at ease, and on her agonising journey home, she realised that she could never be safe, comfortable or relax in the company of other people, and that she never really had, she thought; her true fragile self was suddenly back.

    A short story by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund

  • Henri Lefebvre: Dogmatism in Reverse

    Henri Lefebvre: Dogmatism in Reverse

    Anti-Stalinist Communist, intellectual figure of May 68, Henri Lefebvre is re-read today as an ecosocialist thinker. His political quest for a balance between radicalism and mass movement is as relevant today as his thought, which is resistant to dogmatism.
  • The Whitening of European Jews and the Misuse of Holocaust Memory

    The Whitening of European Jews and the Misuse of Holocaust Memory

    In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the formation of Israel, Jews' position in the Global North transformed from racialized minority into fully white members of "Judeo-Christian" society. As Gilbert Achcar shows in this essay, however, this assimilation into "super whiteness" relies on Jews placidly accepting their equation with Zionism and thus Israel's racist discrimination and violence against Arab Muslims.

  • Karl Marx and Ecology: An Interview with Michael Löwy

    Karl Marx and Ecology: An Interview with Michael Löwy

    While some ecologists remain critical of Marxism and skeptical about how much Marx can offer the environmental movement, Michael Löwy argues that Marx's writing can help us understand the relationship between nature, capitalism, and wealth formation.
  • The muscles of the colonized

    The muscles of the colonized

    Matthew Beaumont explores Ernst Bloch’s theory that posture and gait are a reliable guide to one’s relative state of social alienation or disalienation.

  • There, and not there | Paradise Rot

    There, and not there | Paradise Rot

    The opening of Jenny Hval’s novel Paradise Rot sets the stage for an unsettling, uncanny story of blurred boundaries and a heady sexual awakening in an unfamiliar place.