Back in the Sidecar New Left Review with an essay on the poet, critic, and visual artist Wayne Koestenbaum (aka Wayne Koestenbaum) whose new collection STUBBLE ARCHIPELAGO is out now from Semiotext(e).
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A must read: Anton Jäger on protest movements in the age of hyperpolitics:

'The public sphere has been repoliticized and re-enchanted, but on terms which are individualistic and short-termist.'

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‘The future has become a matter of hope, rather than of unfolding dialectics.’

Göran Therborn replies to Oliver Eagleton (Oliver Eagleton)—on the shape of contemporary capitalism and the outlook for the global left:

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Göran Therborn has written a comradely reply to my critique of his work – on the meaning of historical dialectics and the triadic crisis of ecology, geopolitics and inequality:

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Vital intervention against 'solutionism' – two state or one state – by Ed:

'There is an element of projection in the search for rapid 'solutions' which are less discomforting for Westerners than a protracted, armed, anti-colonial struggle.'

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A bravura essay here from Oliver Eagleton — at once a brilliant reckoning with Goran Therborn’s work over many decades and a stark, clear-eyed assessment of the prospects for a new left renewal!
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A truly stunning piece by Hermione Hoby on the 'feminist corrective' as a literary form:

'When it comes to rectitude, literature is about as biddable as water. It’s not to be corrected but rather complemented and kept flowing with fresh currents.'

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Brilliant piece by Oliver Eagleton on Jonathan White's 'In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea' newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

For this week's The New Statesman, I reviewed Jonathan White's 'In the Long Run' – on clashing political conceptions of futurity, and the pace of democracy at a time of accelerating crisis:

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From Sidecar's interview with Lindsey German:

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In NLR, Oliver Eagleton (Oliver Eagleton) on the dialectics of the 21st century:

'In the conflicts between capital accumulation and climate breakdown, America and China, the left could be a third force: an exit-route from these cycles of catastrophe.'

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For Jacobin — on Biden's self-sabotaging belligerence towards Yemen:

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'Rather than making a straightforward case for or against the applicability of the term, Late Fascism traces the myriad ways it has been deployed over the past 100 years, mining each of them for parallels with the present.' - Oliver Eagleton on Toscano newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/12/…

Toscano on Negri:

'His lifelong war on the palaces was founded on the conviction that power, potestas, is nourished by a hatred of bodies and fixed in the threefold fetish of patriarchy-property-sovereignty.'

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