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In this entry of the Revolutionary Mathematics roundtable, James Muldoon discusses the role of algorithms in contemporary capitalism, the new politics of the subject, and digital capitalism.

From 1965 until 1980, Louis Althusser edited the Théorie series of books, each released by the pioneering French publisher François Maspero. Here Stuart Elden charts the history of the series, and the impact it had on French, and global, Marxist philosophy.

Contemporary circulation struggles – the occupations, riots and critical infrastructure blockades that dominate the reportoire of resistance – have in recent years been popularly associated with movements of the left. But what happens they migrate across the political spectrum? Here, Joshua Clover writes on the contemporary terrain of struggle.

Half-Earth Socialism is a provocative, brilliant, beguiling little book that works in the best Marxist utopian tradition: bringing the scientific mind’s clear-eyed analysis together with the heart’s world of imagination and what-might-be.

Love does not exist in a vacuum. In post-Apartheid South Africa, the tensions between radical solidarity and quiet diligency stand to rupture even the purest human connections. 

The death of Alain Krivine on 12 March, aged eighty, saw the passing of the last of the leading ‘68ers who had remained faithful to the revolts of his youth, mixing anti-imperialism, anti-Stalinism and anti-capitalism. He combined his fidelity to his cause with a clear integrity, at odds with sectarianism or the lust for power.

Perspectives on Russia's history and the wider geopolitical landscape, featuring Tony Wood, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Ilya Budraitskis, and more.

Verónica Gago on Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker’s classic history of maritime radicalism and how, to this day, it inspires fresh readings in different parts of the globe.

A global atlas of feminist strike and the organizations that sustain it, from the indomitable Verónica Gago

Ayyaz Mallick remembers Aijaz Ahmad, author of In Theory who passed away on 9 March 2022.

A certain revival of interest has been felt in recent years for Françoise d'Eaubonne and her theories. The dangers that she warned us of at the dawn of the 1970s—deforestation, nuclear danger, pollution, resource exhaustion—is of burning topicality.

Where did the idea of ecofeminism come from?