Britain on Strike
Sunak’s Austerity Crisis
Sunak’s Austerity Crisis
Streetlands, by Burial
Burial’s new Streetlands EP may be his most beautiful work to date.(...)
Hyperculture, by Byung Chul-Han
Korean-German philosopher Byung Chul-Han is the quintessential postmodern figure. Having to come to Germany to study metallurgy, he switched fields and mastered the argot of German philosophy.(...)
Until the End of the World, Director’s Cut
The director’s cut of Wim Wenders’ 1991 film Until the End of the World is both a masterpiece and a remarkably astute commentary on its demise as an artistic category, shattered into fragments by the technological advances it both celebrates and repudiates.(...)
London 2012 Nostalgia
Take the Overground to Hackney Wick. Get off there and walk into the nearby maze of decay and graffiti. Believe it or not, this is not far from the regeneration hub of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.(...)
Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama has a fraught relationship with history. In the late 1980s, he thought it was over.(...)
Blairism Without Blair
Twenty-five years after winning a landslide victory, Tony Blair haunts the Labour Party.(...)
Heaven in Disorder, by Slavoj Žižek
One is always a bit apprehensive when cracking the latest publication by the eminent Slovenian curmudgeon Slavoj Žižek.(...)
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. (...)
Aftershocks, by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright
The rapid spread of the Omicron variant has buried hopes the world might be ending its morbid embrace of COVID-19.(...)