The cover of Tor Seidel’s ‘The Dubai’ (All images courtesy Hatje Cantz) In Caspar David Friedrich‘s “Frau vor untergehender Sonne” (“Woman before the Setting Sun”), a young woman is depicted facing ...
The ghostly emptiness of capitalist realism obscures the potential for collective joy and abundance. Mark Fisher’s writing ...
A look at the memoirs of Felix Abt, arguably the most successful foreign capitalist to live and do business in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to date. A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven ...
Drawing upon Achille Mbembe’s “necropolitics,” Warren Montag’s “necroeconomics,” and Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee’s “necro-capitalism” (which all in various ways highlight the systemic production of ...
Spike Jonze's Her (2013) is a film about a romantic relationship between a man and an operating system. Using a Lacanian and Žižekian psychoanalytic framework, we interpret this film in the context of ...
Some quick thoughts on Mark Fisher’s recent piece for the Weekly Worker on the present state of things, and ‘neo-anarchism’ in particular. One brief thought on presentation: whoever the CPGB’s layout ...
The best guide to British politics today was written 13 years ago and features the Marxist analysis of Slavoj Zizek applied to the Disney film “Wall-E”. “Capitalist Realism”, a short and eclectic book ...
While the fear of fending off a host of gigantic carnivorous creatures while trying to escape an impending extinction-level meteor strike is the driving force of 65’s story, something else about the ...
Patch reports that a University of Washington gardener found no less than 40 "death cap" mushrooms on a section of the campus. The problem with these mushrooms is their appearance is not that ...
This week, enjoy Batman in Bryant Park, experience Cuban culture in Queens, visit MoCADA for an exhibit on how black communities are affected by natural disasters, sign up for the new Greenpoint Open ...