
What is the future of the contemporary?
How does contemporary art best respond to social crisis? An excerpt from Crisis as Form by Peter Osborne

How does contemporary art best respond to social crisis? An excerpt from Crisis as Form by Peter Osborne

On both sides the usual scripts were upended, as a pair of outsiders occupied the hegemonic gap and proceeded to fill it with new political memes.

"Safeguarding the planet requires building a counter hegemony"— an excerpt from Nancy Fraser's Cannibal Capitalism.

Pharma companies have made a killing on the pandemic, in part by refusing to share vaccine technology with manufacturers in the Global South. Though companies like Pfizer hide behind the argument that only profit incentives can drive innovation, Tim Bierley shows that knowledge sharing and publicly-funded pharmaceutical development leads to more equitable production and distribution of vaccines and medications.

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John Berger's unique and uncompromising voice as an art critic owed in large part to his political commitments. A unapologetic Marxist, Berger judged art not simply by its aesthetic value but by its capacity to help its observers recognize their collective power.

Our Cultural and Literary Theory reading for the academic year ahead: all up to 40% off until the end of September.

Our art and aesthetics reading for the academic year ahead, up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.

Our Anthropology reading for the academic year ahead.

Fill your academic year with radical left theory.

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Our psychoanalysis reading for the year ahead, up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.