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OE: The argument, as I understand it, is that the party should be a lever for a popular mobilization. That is to say, it ...
Murray spoke to Oliver Eagleton about the politics of the nascent party, its priorities at this early stage, the discussions ...
The domino stamps that Evans painted allowed him to play the game around the edge of an envelope, turning the corners as one ...
This life-sized Melania, the work of American conceptual artist Brad Downey, was ambiguous – neither celebration nor obvious ...
Intellectual currents can generate a sufficient head of water for the critic to instal his power station on them. The necessary gradient, in the case of Surrealism, is produced by the difference in ...
II We are concerned here with the much-debated ‘alienation effect’ of Bertolt Brecht. He defines this effect as follows: ‘A representation that alienates is one which allows us to recognize its ...
The Misadventures of American Criticism It was fortunate for American criticism, then, that Georges Poulet of the phenomenological ‘Geneva School’ had just stepped off the boat, arriving at Johns ...
Overdetermination How else should we summarize these practical experiences and their theoretical commentaries other than by saying that the whole Marxist revolutionary experience shows that, if the ...
The World Social Forum at Porto Alegre has become symbolic of the forces beginning to shape a front of common resistance to the pattern of imperial globalization. Yet its character and composition ...