By Nadia Urbinati Forthcoming in The Annual Review of Political Science Populism is the name of a global phenomenon whose definitional precariousness is proverbial. It resists generalizations and makes scholars of politics comparativist by necessity, as its language and… Continue Reading
By Rosalind Morris What could be more difficult than to conjure the idea of and commitment to communism in these avaricious and increasingly unequal times? To conjure it, as in 1847, in response to and in defiance of a recurring… Continue Reading
By Aristides Baltas Translated by Chloe Howe Haralambous 0. What follows does not aspire at anything but a summary of a reading or, perhaps more accurately, an extended commentary on Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History”. This… Continue Reading
By Aristides Baltas Translated by Chloe Howe Haralambous This opening question mark aims to underline two matters from the offset: first, that this volume was not written under conditions of theoretical certainty and quietude, in which an affirmative framing… Continue Reading
Hallward, Peter. “‘Communism of the Intellect, Communism of the Will’.” The Idea of Communism, edited by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek, Verso, 2010. Žižek, Slavoj. “How to Begin from the Beginning.” The Idea of Communism, edited by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek, Verso, 2010.… Continue Reading
Etienne Balibar is a French philosopher and a professor at Columbia University. His publications in English include: Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser and al., Verso, 1965); Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Verso, 1988); We, The People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton University Press,… Continue Reading