Eric Hazan, the famed French historian and publisher whose book Le Tumulte de Paris, a wander through the streets of this city that he both adores and abhors, was published earlier this year in French, welcomes us to his home in Belleville.
"Populism," as a political concept, gained mainstream traction over the 2010s as the neoliberal consensus broke down internationally. But what is populist theory and what is its relationship to the twentieth-century Marxist thought from which it developed? In this piece, Stathis Kouvélakis offers a critical examination of the political logic of Ernesto Laclau’s theory of populism.
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1969 may be remembered as the year of Woodstock and the hippies, but as the documentary Summer of Soul shows, it was also the year of cultural and social tumult that surged up from the deepest currents of the black Atlantic.
Rüdiger Dannemann on Lukacs.
"In her incisive and accessible study of Islamic jihad, Suzy shows how jihad is the ur-form of contemporary politics, no departure from western capitalism but rather an acceleration and crystallization of it."
Why does the US go to war? Humanitarianism? To bring freedom and democracy to the unfortunate corners of the world? To save vulnerable populations from dictatorship?
Not likely. Try: self interest.
Interview with philosopher Jacques Rancière on the Covid-19 crisis, contemporary political upheavals the experience of art and film over the past year, and social media.
Etienne Balibar and Anne Querrien on the philosopher François Matheron, who died on 3 April at the age of 65.
A reading list of utopian thinking featuring Leslie Kern, Aaron Bastani, James Bridle, Andrea Long Chu, and Lizzie O’Shea.