The decisive point about capitalism is rather that it is a society in which the principal means of production are privately ...

So $1 million against $4,000 seems like a good exchange for Iran. And they can produce these drones at a mass scale. If you look at Orientalist writings from the nineteenth century onwards, it was ...

Mario del Pero on Anders Stephanson, American Imperatives. Critical reflections on the Cold War as a strategy of US ...

Ilya Budraitskis on Benjamin Nathans, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause. Compelling account of the friendship networks of ...

Julian Stallabrass on Trevor Paglen, How to See Like a Machine. An American artist documents and explores the arrival of the ...

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the lengnthy explanations I am forced to make may be annoying; I am sorry, but they are necessary. This is a play about a large kitchen in a restaurant called the Tivoli. All kitchens, especially ...

What follows is rather like the famous courtroom scene in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai (1947).footnote 1 In that noir allegory of proletarian virtue in the embrace of ruling-class decadence, ...