But part of the role of radical agitation, of political speculation and of utopian art and culture is to gesture towards the ...

The events in Gaza have transformed, perhaps permanently, not just attitudes toward the current government in Israel and ...

Critical analyses of AI usually adopt a stance of defensive humanism. Instead, Nan Da interrogates its mode of reasoning. How ...

With Latin America in Trump’s cross-hairs, a report from Buenos Aires on the social stalemate that allowed far-right ...

Nicholas Mulder on Arnaud Orain, Le monde confisqué. Reading of the current neo-mercantilist lurch as a return to the norm of ...

Gabriele Pedullà on Tom Geue, Major Corrections. Intellectual biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro, who brought the tools of ...

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A key question, however, is rarely asked: what does ‘material interest’ mean? On closer inspection the term takes on a ...

Cities are secondary, derivative, mimetic places. The future appears first in the countryside. This was the iconoclastic argument made by Rem Koolhaas in his 2020 Guggenheim exhibition, ‘Countryside, ...

The slight and soft-eyed British actor Frank Dillane is in every scene of the London-set drama Urchin. That would put pressure on any performance, but it’s compounded by the approach taken by ...

Among the many lessons of Trump’s return to the White House, a crucial one concerns civil society: a mushy and frustrating, but nevertheless inescapable, concept. Taken up from Hegel’s Philosophy of ...

The prevailing cultural configuration in the United States is indicated by two recent items in the New York Times, whose common background is worth excavating. The first of these is a story published ...