chess is a battle of ideas

Benjamin Crais on the radical filmmaker Robert Kramer: 'Kramer’s cinema is that of the fellow traveller: his subject was the experience of the journey, what he describes as a personal, subjective confrontation with events.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

My review of Timothy Bewes' fascinating new book, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age, out now in Radical Philosophy: radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/indivi…

excited to finally share some writing: a comparative look at how the KMT/Manchukuo govt co-opted utopian socialist rural reform projects and turned them into weapons of settler-colonialism. n maybe also a consideration of marx/foucault on real subsumption open.substack.com/pub/blackbatso…

overcome with gratitude and disbelief at seeing this essay in print—so thankful to all the comrades who encouraged me to keep writing it, and to the incredible editorial team at Qui Parle for helping me get it out into the world! 🙇‍♀️☺️🌱

For prominent intellectuals to continue to decry a nefarious, academic ‘left extremism’ (“a cult of force”!) in the London Review of Books as students and activists face increasing state repression for expressing solidarity with Palestine is pretty shameful

impossible to say or think anything beyond "how can we stop this?"

I'm so honoured to be included in this incredible issue. 😭 My thing is about Wattpad (can't stop won't stop) and the social scientific study of "delayed adulthood." Special t/y Pamela Thurschwell for sharing the forthcoming work I engage a lot in it: tinyurl.com/y2zhk8bv

I've learned so much from the brilliant and generous thinkers in this issue - including fellow editors bc 🇵🇸 and veronica - so excited to see this out in the world!

it was a joy to sit in on the lectures that became this book (even more so to edit it!) - out with Verso Books in October!

Between late April and mid-May 2024, we interviewed student and non-student participants in the following nine encampments across the US: Harvard, Northwestern, Chicago, CUNY, Texas, UMass, Princeton, Columbia, and UCLA. Here are some of their answers: endnotes.org.uk/posts/the-enca…