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In NLR 158: Western Promises.
Thomas Meaney reviews Fritz Bartel’s The Triumph of Broken Promises: the end of the Cold War as a contest to impose capital’s discipline, East and West.
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Dylan Riley (@DylanRiley6216) on comparing Marx and Weber:
‘A general lesson is contained here: standpoints are politico-epistemological achievements, not unmediated expressions of social being.’
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Lorna Finlayson for Sidecar (@LJFinlayson):
‘That the government doesn’t care if the university dies – and is in fact working actively to hasten its demise – is clear.’
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Grey Anderson on Massie's loss in Kentucky:
'Today the Israel lobby operates in comparatively embattled circumstances, obliged on occasion to substitute financial firepower for consent it can no longer reliably command'.
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In NLR 158: The Art of Counter-Remembrance:
Marcus Verhagen asks how art can grapple with an event like the Grenfell Tower fire. Contrasting modes of aesthetic response explored in the works of Chris Ofili, Steve McQueen and Forensic Architecture.
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“Somebody thought that somebody thought that somebody thought that something was good (or clicked on it a lot, or gave it money). In all this, judgement is strangely missing, endlessly delegated or deferred.”
@LJFinlayson in Sidecar @NewLeftReview
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Richard Beck (@Richard__Beck) on the war against Iran:
‘States can only bear the strain of such incompetent and destructive leadership for so long.’
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Rachel Armitage on Matthew Rices’s ‘plastic’ (@FitzcarraldoEds):
Rancière describes ‘stolen time’ as the means ‘by which men and women wrenched themselves out of an identity formed by domination’.
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Tony Wood on elections in Peru:
‘A major factor in the opacity of Peruvian politics for outside observers is that party labels tend to hold only provisional meaning at best.’
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In NLR 158: Against Abolitionism
Loïc Wacquant offers a sociological critique of radical calls for the abolition of police, courts and prisons.
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Join us at Verso's New York office on Wednesday, 27th May for the launch of New Left Review 158. Ervand Abrahamian, Richard Beck and Alexander Zevin will be discussing the Iran war and its consequences. Space is limited, so please reserve a ticket if you'd like to attend. https://t.co/cL9fsU9WYc
Owen Hatherley:
Unlike the buildings of Maoism, so many of which have vanished, Dengist architecture still stands, its bright colours fading, its lifts breaking down, its mirrorglass dirty and rotten.
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In NLR 158: Tom Stevenson interviews Richard Overy.
One of Britain’s leading historians discusses the Second World War as a terminal contest between imperial-colonial systems.
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Here's my essay in the new issue of The Ideas Letter, 'Terms of Art', on contemporary America film criticism and the work of A S Hamrah, with some emphasis on inaccuracy and misrepresentations; cameos from Kael, Faber @tnyfrontrow and other eminent figures
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