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Paul Virilio passed away on the 18^th of September 2018 at the age of 86. In this piece, Mark Lacy reflects on his life, work and contemporary relevance.

In this excerpt from Freud and the Non-European, Edward Said describes his method of situating historic thinkers and writers “contrapuntally.”

In this excerpt from Ryszard Kapuściński’s collected lectures on the concept of ‘The Other,’ the esteemed journalist grapples with the inextricable link between the Other and the Self.

Veronica Gago and Luci Cavallero on the struggles against austerity in Argentina, and the growing wave of violence against women - including the kidnapping and torture last week of the teacher Corina de Bonis for resisting the closure of schools in Moreno, Buenos Aires.

Paul Virilio, who died on the 10th September, was one of France's most celebrated cultural theorists. 

In this, the introduction to Open Sky, Virilio explores the social destruction wrought by modern technologies and critiques the breakdown of our collective and individual relation to time, space and movement in the context of global electronic media. 

Guardian journalist and Verso author, Nina Lakhani fighting intimidation from an online smear campaign which she believes could be led by a military intelligence group for reporting on the murder trial of Honduran indigenous leader Berta Cáceres.

In this excerpt, Juan González and Joseph Torres argue for the importance of understanding the history of race and the American media system in order for a “democratic revolution of the U.S. media” to succeed.

An extract from Mark Greif's Against Everything: On Dishonest Times, a thought-provoking study and collection of essays that provide an essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first century capitalism.

In the second part of a two part interview,  Adam Tooze discusses the Brexit vote, Emmanuel Macron's reform agenda, the prospects for a radical Labour government, and why it is that Marxists keep claiming Adam (a self-described liberal) for one of their own, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast

Mike Davis reflects on the political lessons of the 1970s and 1980s and poses questions still relevant for the left today.

Asad Haider traces the trajectory of “identity politics” and challenges our understanding of the politics of race in this excerpt from Mistaken Identity.

Ilya Afanasyev, Nicholas Evans and Nicholas Matheou on the possibility of another kind of academic conference.