Élisabeth is certainly distinguished by extensive descriptions of ‘material facts’: settings, objects, gestures. When Claire ...

Most analysts had expected the Democratic Centre, built on the cult of personality surrounding former president Álvaro Uribe ...

In the ‘Freedom of Self-Consciousness’ chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, which follows the better-known parable about the master and the slave, Hegel considers two schools of ancient philosophy: ...

Hardliners on both sides in the Ukraine war are pursuing a chimaera in the hope of a miracle. Moscow appears to believe that in the near future, the Ukrainian defences that have held the Russian ...

In March 1934, a young Communist militant rode on horseback into the tiny settlement of Estación Camarón in Nuevo León, in the far northeast of Mexico. He had been sent by the party to support a ...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech at NATO’s Defence Industry Forum in Ankara earlier this month was a hymn to drone warfare. Drones, the Ukrainian president proclaimed, had heralded ‘revolutionary changes ...

John Berger had one of the longest and richest lives among British writers, but he never quite made it to 100. In his absence, the centenary of his birth this year sees a flurry of publications and ...

For a few years in New York City in the early 1980s, Candace Hill-Montgomery was everywhere. Bridging the gap between the Downtown scene and Harlem, she was known for her large-scale interventions in ...

What is a bubble? It is a collective belief. What is a crash? It is the collapse of that belief. AI has given rise to two bubbles. There is a stock market bubble – the two highest-profile players, ...

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 ...

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 ...