The 2016 Brexit referendum cracked much of the artifice of the Irish border, reigniting debates on partition and reunification on the island. Colin Gannon reports on the chances for, and stumbling blocks to, a renewed all-Ireland consciousness on the Irish left.
The time of emancipation, in Rancière’s imagination, is not a progression towards truth and justice. It is rather, Katharina Clausius argues, a common ground whose gridlines sprout delicate tendrils that extend out, coil around, germinate new shoots that spiral out beyond its boundaries.
An excerpt from Ruth Wilson Gilmore's new essay collection.
Oliver Davis on neoliberalism's appropriation of the Marxist narrative of historical necessity.
Introducing the Verso roundtable on Modern Times, Jussi Palmusaari reflects on the underlying spatial logic of Rancière's conception of modernity and problematizes his notion of time as montage. If time is not a line stretching from the past to the future, chaining causes and effects, how can it form the horizon for strategical political action?
Oli Mould, author of Against Creativtiy, on the post-covid shift to aesthetic imaginaries of alternative planetary presents.
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How can we develop a theory and practice of ecological counterpower that is commensurate to the coming catastrophe? Davide Gallo Lassere on the limits of Andreas Malm's ecological Leninism.
Judith Butler on Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the consequences that the decision, one that aims towards the restoration of patriarchal order backed by the force of federal law, will have for the wider movement for social justice.
In a series of two articles, Davide Gallo Lassere explores the history and present state of global warming, fossil fuels and Covid-19 in critical dialogue with Andreas Malm's eco-Marxism.
Reading Malm thorugh the prism of Workerism, Davide Gallo Lassere discusses the historic relation between fossil fuels, labour power and global warming.
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