John Foster / 09 Dec 2022
Return to Politics
Power and Resistance, by Yoshiyuki Sato
No stranger to hyperbole, Slavoj Žižek once described an event as a reframing of the present, “a radical change in this reality itself”.(...)
Slavoj Zizek
John Foster / 04 Nov 2022
Alienated by Technology
Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld, by Byung Chul-Han
When talk of the “information age” first began in the 1960s, it implied optimism. Information is knowledge, of which more is better than less, generally speaking.(...)
Josh White / 25 Apr 2022
Ex-Social Democrats
Today’s New Statesman
Getting off the tube at Blackfriars, you could walk through the backstreets of Fleet Street without seeing the office of the oldest progressive magazine in Britain. It’s easily done.(...)
John Foster / 25 Mar 2022
Diversity Without Nationalism
Heaven in Disorder, by Slavoj Žižek
One is always a bit apprehensive when cracking the latest publication by the eminent Slovenian curmudgeon Slavoj Žižek.(...)
John Foster / 24 Apr 2020
The Communist Influenza
Slavoj Žižek’s Pandemic!
Today's philosophers don’t do well in crises. The case of Giorgio Agamben, in which he wrongly downplayed the danger posed by COVID-19, is a perfect example. (...)
Ernst Stetter / 03 Apr 2020
Collective Resilience
Lessons From the Coronavirus Crisis
The end of the tunnel is nowhere in sight. Coronavirus continues to infect the globe. (...)
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 / 30 Oct 2019
Nothing is New Anymore
The Paradox of the IDLES
Listening to IDLES’ forthcoming live LP, A Beautiful Thing – not to mention the albums that preceded it, Joy as an Act of Resistance (2018) and Brutalism (2017) – is by turns exhilarating and exhausting. (...)