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Benjamin Bratton on why philosophy failed us in facing up to the pandemic, and why we need to rethink biopolitics as a matter of life and death.

Anne Chemin on the ‘historian of humanity’ and his encounters with other cultures.

A World Without Police makes an undeniable argument that our future means abolition with no compromises. In the book, Geo Maher describes the majority population of the United States with an investment in policing and carcerality as "the pig majority." A population that "could include you, but it doesn't have to." His writing reminds us that we have a responsibility to make police obsolete.

"Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman are thinkers at the forefront of this aesthetic revolution, and this book opens up and theorizes a new field that is already transforming the way we think about art practise as well as the wider context of sensing the world." - Leo Hollis, editor

After the tragic murder of Romani man Stanislav Tomáš in the Czech Republic, Sean Benstead reflects on the socio-economic discrimination of the Romani community and explores the history of the World Roma Congress. 

In The Invention of Sicily, Jamie Mackay offers a sweeping history of Sicily from ancient times to the present day. Mackay presents Sicily's history as one of an autonomous community fighting for liberation against their oppressors.

The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast. 

How the 2016 women’s protests situated reproductive rights within the context of labor rights and class composition.

Foundational Marxist critiques of feminism in the age of neoliberalism, with contemporary books on the family, sex work, and gender identity.

In the last few days, two Internet controversies have illustrated the political dynamic currently at work in France: a video published by a fascist Youtuber known as ‘Papacito’, which staged the execution of a voter for La France Insoumise; and a tweet by media philosopher Raphaël Enthoven announcing that he would rather vote for Le Pen than Mélenchon.

Returning home after a long absence, N. was greatly alarmed that the people of his country seemed quite as unprepared to deal with the anticipated advent of the Blonde Beast as they had been with the challenge of the pandemic.

The abundance of commodities indiscriminately consumed is becoming calamitous. It makes it impossible to find one's way, and just as in a gigantic department store one looks out for a guide, the population wedged between wares await their leader.