Geopolitics has never found a congenial place within the Marxist tradition, let alone been properly theorized. Consider the exemplary Nicos Poulantzas, originator of the best Marxist works on the ...
Lynne Segal seeks to ‘make sense of the mélange of contemporary feminism’, wondering whether ‘we can still look to it for a confrontational and broadly transformative politics’. But Why Feminism? does ...
It would be impossible, in a short letter, to deal with all the points raised by Miriam Glucksmann in her critique of Lucien Goldmann (and implicitly of Lukács) in nlr 56. Since, however, this article ...
In replying to Richard Merton’s comment on my first article, in nlr 59footnote 1 I take the opportunity to clarify and correct some of my own positions, and also to attack, some basic errors in Merton ...
There is a measure of consensus within feminist theory that rationalist values are in crisis—that the very arrival of women on the scene of intellectual activity necessitates a reappraisal of those ...
You are one of several theorists, along with Cédric Durand, Jodi Dean, Mariana Mazzucato and others, who have speculated that the hegemony of Big Tech – using algorithms to build data empires that ...
During the severe economic crisis of 2008–09, it seemed to many that neoliberalism was finished.footnote 1 The major us banks were facing collapse and survived only through state bailouts. Economic ...
The Third World ascended like a sky-rocket—and fell like the proverbial stick. Invented by Alfred Sauvy in 1952, in an article in L’Observateur entitled ‘Three Worlds, One Planet’, the term tiers ...
The Popular Front is best known in the non-Arab world for its hijackings in September 1970. A lot of criticisms of the hijackings have been made. Some of these are bourgeois criticisms. But there are ...