John Foster / 10 Jun 2022
Status Quo Apologist
Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama has a fraught relationship with history. In the late 1980s, he thought it was over.(...)
Michel Foucault
John Foster / 11 Feb 2022
Dreaming of Another Politics
Capitalism and the Death Drive, by Byung-Chul Han
Philosopher Byung-Chul Han is as emblematic of German cultural life as it’s possible to be. (...)
John Foster / 10 Dec 2021
Postmodern Means Today
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere, by Stuart Jeffries
It’s a problem that won’t go away. Separating postmodernism from socialism, particularly the “cultural Marxists” of the Frankfurt School, remains extremely difficult.(...)
John Foster / 14 May 2021
Neoliberalism Will Set You Free
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.(...)
John Foster / 30 Apr 2021
Gods of the Realm
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.(...)
John Foster / 26 Jun 2020
Always Fighting Fascism
Theodor Adorno’s Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism
No experience marked the life and work of Theodor Adorno so deeply as the confrontation with National Socialism. (...)
John Foster / 27 Mar 2020
Body Count Democracy
The COVID-19 Con
The crisis through which we (or at least most of us) are now living is defined by biopolitics. (...)
Charlie Bertsch / 19 Feb 2020
Rock Against Neoliberalism
Wire’s Mind Hive
When a band has been around as long as Wire, starting off a new record with the line “It’s nothing new” feels like a dare. (...)
John Foster / 07 Aug 2019
The Cops in Our Heads
Natasha Lennard’s Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life
Fascism is the order of the day. One might confuse it with populism, or that the two are somehow vying for supremacy. (...)