Landy on Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression. A critical theorist reformulates the concept of progress as social-reflexive problem-solving.

A response to Hillary Clinton.

This universalized dialectic – the primacy of process over its constituent moments – is a critical achievement of the first ...

Over the course of the US-Israeli war on Iran, Lebanon has proved the most intractable obstacle to a durable settlement. Throughout, it has been the primary front on which Israel and Iran have ...

In recent years the concept of attention has garnered considerable – well – attention. It has become, we are told, a commodity within the ‘attention economy’, a limited resource over which advertisers ...

Vladimir Bogoraz, one of the most important ethnographers of Siberia, embarked on his monumental study of the Chukchi people after being exiled in 1889 for his revolutionary activities. In the Kolyma ...

In power for just six months, the government of Bolivia’s centre-right president Rodrigo Paz Pereira hangs in the balance. Five weeks of siege and strikes have effectively paralysed the country. Road ...

Every time the global economy plunges into turmoil, talk of the coming end of dollar hegemony resurfaces. In March 1978 – in the wake of the collapse of the Bretton Woods system and amid stagflation ...

It is now widely recognized – a recent editorial in the New York Times proclaimed it openly – that the Trump presidency is by far the most corrupt in American history, a history characterized by ...

In her 1967 essay ‘The Aesthetics of Silence’, Susan Sontag writes that art, in the ‘modern era’, has become ‘something to be overthrown’. In this context, ‘a new element enters the individual artwork ...

The Fed’s 23 March declaration that it intended to provide loans to non-financial corporations was decisive in indicating the Fed’s assumption of leadership of the government’s corporate bailout, ...