Striking in Striking Times: Capitalism’s Coronavirus Crisis
The coronavirus crisis is visiting a global, economic and social calamity upon humanity.
Salvage Perspectives #8: Comrades, This is Madness
The consequences of the pandemic and the shutdown will reconfigure the world and its political economy on a scale not seen in our lifetimes.
ISSUE 8: SPRING / SUMMER 2020
Comrades, This is Madness
Nationalism After Coronavirus
The realities of global exposure and interdependency should accelerate the case for democratically credible, post-imperial structures of global coordination and an attendant ethos of radical internationalism. Alas, amidst the seemingly naïve utopianism of any such corrective, we see instead nationalism readying itself to claim the void.
A Glimmer of a Shell of a Husk
Welcome into my cavern of illusory productivity.
Striking in Striking Times: Capitalism’s Coronavirus Crisis
The coronavirus crisis is visiting a global, economic and social calamity upon humanity.
Salvage Perspectives #8: Comrades, This is Madness
The consequences of the pandemic and the shutdown will reconfigure the world and its political economy on a scale not seen in our lifetimes.
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Nationalism After Coronavirus
The realities of global exposure and interdependency should accelerate the case for democratically credible, post-imperial structures of global coordination and an attendant ethos of radical internationalism. Alas, amidst the seemingly naïve utopianism of any such corrective, we see instead nationalism readying itself to claim the void.
A Glimmer of a Shell of a Husk
Welcome into my cavern of illusory productivity.
Burn It All Down
Sometimes you have to burn down the precinct before anyone listens.
Striking in Striking Times: Capitalism’s Coronavirus Crisis
The coronavirus crisis is visiting a global, economic and social calamity upon humanity.
Salvage Perspectives #8: Comrades, This is Madness
The consequences of the pandemic and the shutdown will reconfigure the world and its political economy on a scale not seen in our lifetimes.
Stand Back: Reflections on a Memoir I Wrote Too Soon
Everywhere we look there are plantation managers and overseers, kneeling over black bodies, shooting into crowds, ramming jeeps through protest lines, chasing joggers, calling the cops, demanding rent.
Neoliberalism for Polite Company: Bruno Latour’s Pseudo-Materialist Coup
If neoliberalism were a Platonic Republic, Bruno Latour would likely be its philosopher-king.
Marxism and Intersectionality: An Interview with Ashley Bohrer
We simply can’t understand the world we live in without an understanding of capitalism. One of the lessons I take from intersectionality is the multiple and discontinuous ways that gender, race, sexuality, ability, nationality, etc are fundamentally interconstituted.
A Marxist Theory of Extinction
From the perspective of earthly life, capitalism differs little from colliding with a massive meteorite.
The Covid State: Dispatch Three from a Changing World
As the subtitle of this piece suggests, this is the third in a series of online editorials responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. The first, ‘The Mask of the Red Death’, was published on 21 March, the second, ‘We Are All Unclean’ on 20 April. Our forthcoming issue, #8:...
Not Today
There are no sirens mounted on the roof at Tree of Life. No one expects death to happen here. The sirens come later.
Salvage #8: Comrades, This is Madness
Like many things, Salvage #8 was a little disrupted by the global pandemic, but it’s at the printers and if you’re a print subscriber, it’s on its way to you very soon.
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Platform Capitalism and the Value Form
According to the speculations of techno-futurologists, left and right, the machines are here to liberate us. Most of the discourse is dominated by the neoliberal right such as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee and Andrew Haldane, chief economist of the Bank of...
Pleasure and Provocation: Kay Gabriel Interview with Jordy Rosenberg
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The Person, Historical Time and the Universalisation of Capital
In 1938, Marcel Mauss gave a lecture entitled ‘Une catégorie de l’esprit humain: la notion de personne, celle de “moi”’ (‘A category of the human mind: the notion of person, the notion of “self”’). The lecture traces various historical configurations of the ‘person’,...