Prior to the onset of the wave, a vast pool of capital lies idle, waiting for channels of profit and investment to open. Then ...

The IAEA inspectors know full well that there are no nuclear weapons. They have simply been acting as willing spies for the ...

An only slightly caricatured version of the cultural arguments of Mark Fisher could be expressed as follows: ‘the future ended in 1979’. In that year, there began a ‘slow cancellation of the future’ ...

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1. Polarities. Laclau and Mouffe begin their response to the first one by misstating it. I am supposed to have reproached them with having ‘based (their) main theoretical conclusions’ on rigid ...

The situation of women is different from that of any other social group. This is because they are not one of a number of isolable units, but half a totality: the human species. Women are essential and ...

D uring this year’s protests against the Eurozone’s austerity measures—in Greece and, on a smaller scale, Ireland, Italy and Spain—two stories have imposed themselves. footnote 1 The predominant, ...

I n the last few years an important current of Marxist thought has emerged in Great Britain. The editorial committee of New Left Review, particularly Perry Anderson and Tom Nairn, have undertaken a ...

As the bill for mental health problems—iconically, depression—climbs, economists seek to quantify the efficiency costs of unhappiness. In such quests, capitalism is reverting to classical psychologies ...

Editorial “It is a new Society that we are working to realise, not a Cleaning up of our present tyrannical muddle into an improved, smoothly-working form of that same “order”, a mass of dull and ...

This was the system that delivered Koizumi’s landslide. On the proportional list, the ldp won 25.9 million votes, or 38.2 per cent of votes cast (slightly better than Blair a few months earlier); but ...

K aspar schoppe’s attempt, at the height of the Counter-Reformation, to rehabilitate the impious Machiavelli by presenting him as a champion of Catholic orthodoxy appears paradoxical today. All the ...