Mario del Pero on Anders Stephanson, American Imperatives. Critical reflections on the Cold War as a strategy of US ...

Ilya Budraitskis on Benjamin Nathans, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause. Compelling account of the friendship networks of ...

Julian Stallabrass on Trevor Paglen, How to See Like a Machine. An American artist documents and explores the arrival of the ...

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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: ...

Ralph Miliband’s recently published work, The State in Capitalist Society,footnote 1 is in many respects of capital importance. The book is extremely substantial, and cannot decently be summarized in ...

Criticism and Ideology is the first major study in Marxist literary theory to be written in England in forty years—that is an important part of its distinction. It is also, Eagleton would add, the ...

Ivery much welcome Nicos Poulantzas’s critique of The State in Capitalist Society in the last issue of NLR: this is exactly the kind of discussion which is most likely to contribute to the elucidation ...

‘As your jet starts its descent, you are glued to your window. The scene below is astonishing: a 24-square-mile archipelago of coral-coloured islands in the shape of an almost-finished puzzle of the ...