Taking Responsibility for Refugees
The recent Italian films The Life Ahead (La vita davanti a sé) and Mom to Hundreds (Tutto il giorno davanti) thematise the plight of underage migrants from the developing world, seeking to extract maximum sentiment from audiences.(...)
The Last Man Takes LSD, by Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora
For a book with LSD in the title and an image of a tab on the cover, there is remarkably little about Michel Foucault’s notorious drug experience in Death Valley.(...)
Solo Tutto, by Massimo Pericolo
Unlike so many of the records that fall under the rubric of rap these days, Massimo Pericolo’s Solo Tutto remembers what the term originally meant.(...)
A Critical Theory of Police Power, by Mark Neocleous
The conviction of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd has been presented by American media as an important step in addressing police violence against people of colour.(...)
AAI, by Mouse on Mars
AAI, the new album by storied German electronic group Mouse on Mars, is the rare concept album in which form and content are equals.(...)
The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
“Why should I worry about deviating from the masses when I am also me and myself? Am I not a mass? Am I not already a collective? Do I not contain multitudes?” (...)
The Last Neoliberal, by Bruno Amable and Stefano Palombrini
There is a case to be made that the left is dead. (...)
The Citadel, Directed by John Smith
Emerging from the early morning fog, the polymorphous skyline of London's financial centre can just about be glimpsed.(...)
Ruin and Renewal, by Paul Betts
In an essay on German culture in the years immediately following World War II, historian Anson Rabinbach bemoaned the Federal Republic’s post-fascist politics.(...)