Everything else lies, as Clausewitz said, in the fog of the expanding battlefield. Read on: Susan Watkins, ‘Trump Abroad’, ...
Bulgarian sociologist Jivko Georgiev has sharply diagnosed the impasse: ‘We live in a present so impotent that it lacks the ...
Gradually, what was unsayable becomes sayable and then received wisdom, without acknowledgement of the shift, and hence ...
The ‘crisis of care’ is currently a major topic of public debate.footnote 1 Often linked to ideas of ‘time poverty’, ‘family-work balance’, and ‘social depletion’, it refers to the pressures from ...
Speculation about the character of Ukania’s incoming Labour government tends to be projective. For the self-described Marxist Paul Mason, Keir Starmer’s outlook is ‘socialist and internationalist’, ...
There was also, of course, his fine contempt for the democrats of those years, who had received power for free, without a struggle, as if they had just found it in the street. So most of the ideas ...
Norbert Wiener, in the early 1960s, foresaw a parallel between the process of automation and the nature of magic as it has been depicted in countless fantasies, from Goethe’s tale of the sorcerer’s ...
Under capitalism, the only thing worse than being exploited is not being exploited. Since the beginnings of the wage-labour economy, wageless life has been a calamity for those dispossessed of land, ...
Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American Growth offers a vast narrative, encompassing some 150 years of us economic history since 1870, with prospective views up to 2040 or so.footnote 1 The ...
In the realm of aesthetics, the way a thing is expressed is of a qualitatively different order from what it would be in science. No one will deny that even in science a statement can be made in a ...
Can socialists, radical environmentalists and feminists from other traditions safely dismiss ecofeminism? In this paper I offer both a critique of ecofeminism and a modified defence. On the one hand, ...