Well That Doesn’t Sound Like Fun
On boredom, board games, and Debord
On boredom, board games, and Debord
Our correspondent spent a year living in North-East Syria. These are his first reflections on the experience.
An interview with Fox Maxy, whose films explore identity in frenetic first-person shots
Teresa Brennan’s theories used religion and psychoanalysis to explain affect, ecology, and economics
The latest novel by the mysterious Joseph Andras gathers traces of Ho Chi Minh’s pre-revolutionary youth
The deafening silence around Heidegger’s fascism has been broken – what does this mean for philosophy and politics?
Ethnic cleansing created the State of Israel. Is genocide now on the agenda?
It’s easy to make fun of the Sovereign Citizens. But we do so at our own peril.
How an American tradition of popular sovereignty gave way to COINTELPRO with a ‘progressive’ face
"May December" asks hard questions about what a community does with its monsters
An interview with Roberto Mendoza, a veteran of Indigenous people’s struggle for liberation in North America
We talk to Shift Change, who are fighting for more democracy in National Nurses United
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