Emily Apter's Unexceptional Politics "is a sprawling and remarkable mapping of the terrain of terms, idioms, and actions that constitute the philological and conceptual depth of our contemporary political lives." These commentaries were presented as part of a roundtable discussion on the book as "an entry port, a spur for continued engagement with the rich range of concerns that Unexceptional Politics raises."
In these videos, Sophie Lewis offers a radical feminist analysis of surrogacy, abortion, gestational labour, and the family. She is the author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family.
With France marking six months of ‘yellow vest’ rallies and civil unrest, a new movement is making itself heard. The Gilets Noirs, the largest collective of undocumented migrants in France, have been conducting a series of high profile actions, most notbaly the recent protests at Charles De Gaulle airport calling for an end to deportation flights. In this article, Luke Butterly reports on the movement.
Sophie Lewis offers a critique of surrogacy as it is described in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
On gestational communism and radical kinship: McKenzie Wark, Jules Joanne Gleeson and Natasha Lennard respond to Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis
Jacobin’s David Broder interviews Marco Revelli about the weakening of the traditional parties, the decline of democratic antibodies to the far right, and the possibility of reviving different forms of mass organization.
Cassandra Troyan navigates the histories of sex worker resistance and struggles against gendered violence and capital, towards revolution.
C. L. R. James, the pioneering Trinidadian socialist historian and writer, died on this day 30 years ago in London with his funeral held a few weeks later at Tunapuna Cemetery, Trinidad. On the arrival back in Trinidad of his body, his long-time comrade John La Rose read passages of Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal - the great Caribbean poem of exile and return. In this article, Jackqueline Frost investigates the continental connections of James and Césaire, and the politics of return.
Are the Yellow Vest protests in France simply the reflection of a resurgent far right populism, and who has gained most from the wave of protests? In this article, the Quantité Critique collective investigate the politics of the movement, and argue that at play is a decisive political battle between the left and right.
In these videos, Mithu Sanyal examines the role of race and the recurrent image of the black rapist, the omission of male victims, and the racist agenda behind media reporting of rape. She is the author of Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo
If there is one thing that everyone knows about Louis Althusser, it is that he killed his wife - the sociologist and résistante Hélène Rytmann-Légotien. In this article, William S. Lewis asks how should this fact effect the reception of Althusser's work, and how should those who find Althusser's reconceptualisation of Marx and Marxism usefully respond?
The acclaimed art fanzine’s psychogeographic drifts through a ruined city.