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

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 ...

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 ...

What is the relationship between Marx’s and Weber’s interpretations of capitalism? Rivers of ink have run seeking to synthesize or counterpose the two great analysts of capitalism. The discussion ...

On the face of it, Kentucky’s 4 th congressional district was an unlikely setting for the costliest primary campaign in American history. A safe GOP seat in the state’s north, the constituency runs ...

Matthew Rice’s book-length poem plastic is set over the course of a 12-hour night shift in a factory near Belfast which produces plastic table latches for aeroplane seats. The Northern Irish poet ...

Though published just this past December, the second Trump administration’s National Security Strategy already reads like a dispatch from a vanishing world. A slightly awkward genre, the NSS is a ...

Tiananmen Square, a Ming-era space in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace, expanded fourfold over the course of the 1950s, as it was laid out with museums, halls and monuments for the new People’s ...

One of the most important distinctions for understanding the dynamics of the current world and its historical emergence is that between capitalists and capitalism. Capitalists are economic actors ...

Adrian Wooldridge’s recent Centrists of the World Unite!: The Lost Genius of Liberalism does not just echo The Communist Manifesto in its language, it also mirrors its basic structure. Marx and Engels ...

‘I won’t be able to write from the grave’, the American poet Fanny Howe once wrote, ‘so let me tell you what I love’. The list that follows is brief: brown bread, salt, wine, a windy day, intimacy ...

Fritz Bartel, The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism: Cambridge MA ...