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Ola Jonsson, A Review of Banskys Wall and Peace
The Politics of Anonymity and SurveillanceWall and Piece, by BanksyLondon: Random House, 2005 ‘I like to think that I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom’– Banksy, Wall and Piece In an interview in Guardian magazine, [...]
Frida Beckman, A Review of Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker.
Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker. London and New York: Verso, 2006 “The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.” Kathy Acker The title, of course, is ingenious. It simultaneously encapsulates within itself the relentless energy in Kathy Acker’s writing and the monstrous irony of her premature death. As [...]
The Place of Iraq: A Conversation with Dahr Jamail and Linus Lancaster
Dahr Jamail was working as a journalist in anchorage at the outset of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and responded to the failure of American mainstream media to fully cover the war by going there on his own to report it. He has spent a total of eight months in Iraq, three months in Jordan, [...]
Ross Birrell on his film on Benjamin, ‘Port Bou: 18 Fragments for Walter Benjamin’ (with David Harding)
forthcoming . . .
Derek Merrill, A Review of Negri's Books for Burning
Negri in Buenos Aires: A review of Book for Burning: Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy[1] Hatred of work and hatred of exploitation are the productive content of invention-power, which is the prolongation of the refusal of work. –Antonio Negri, Books for Burning In November of 2003, Antonio Negri delivered a series of lectures [...]
Editor's Note: A Few Words For Nepal
“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.” The Society of the Spectacle,Guy Debord “The event, the untimely, the Angelus novus–when they arrive–will appear suddenly. Thus our generation can construct a new constitution. Except that it will not be a constitution. And perhaps this event has [...]
Randy Martin, A Review of Lawrence Grossberg, Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America’s Future
Lawrence Grossberg, Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America’s Future (Boulder, Co: Paradigm Publishers, 2005) Saddam Hussein’s promise to repay imperial attentions with the mother of all wars, may have drawn our focus away from the domestic front of the present bellicosity without end. For several decades now, homeland insecurities have sired any number [...]
Sean Saraka, George Hartleys The Abyss of Representation: Marxism and the Postmodern Sublime