“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abou...

I very much enjoyed the latest episode of the Pex Lives​ Podcast, which looks at 'Paradise Towers'.  During it, Kevin and James...

In his famous essay 'The Dialectic of Fear' (published in New Left Review #136, Nov-Dec 1982) Franco Moretti used Marxist and Psych...

And one more.  Please bear in mind, this is a fragment. Marx saw creativity as essential to human nature.  He famously once said that ...

Israel is currently killing hundreds of people in Gaza.  As they do from time to time.  To make something Abba Eban once said true by simp...

The more I think about it, the more I think a humble, sympathetic, non-domineering, non-entryist engagement with the anti-oppression movemen...

Someone nice on tumblr just asked me: Do you think that it's fair to criticize a work of art for the failings of the culture around ...

Everyone is down a mine. (Incidentally, it's funny how often Doctor Who in the 70s and 80s keeps coming back to mines.  I'm sure ...

For Hallowe'en, here are some talks to enjoy. Here 's David McNally, talking about the ideas in his book Monsters of the Market: Z...

On 'The Mind Robber'.  A regurgitation of something originally buried in the middle of an old post. 1. The Review Just one of t...

or   Sex, Death and Rock 'n' Roll - Part 2 (Part 1 can be found here .) Some disjointed observations about 'Revelation of...