So, I’ll start: my name is Owen Hatherley, and not only was I a teenage Manics fan, I am a Manics fan. Read on: T. J. Clarke, ...

There has been a vicious war of words between Congo’s president Felix Tshisekedi and the Rwandan leader Paul Kagame – ...

But Live Here? No Thanks at Munich’s Lenbachhaus is a stirring retrospective of Surrealism, which places anti-fascism at its core. Marking the centenary of Breton’s first manifesto, the exhibition ...

Revolutionaries have traditionally believed that there are three forms of class struggle. The first two are both relatively obvious: political mobilization and economic organization. But in addition ...

Our purpose here is to demonstrate that the spirit of allegory manifests itself quite unambiguously both in the theory and in the practice of the modernist avant-garde. It is no accident that, for ...

Every science has a beginning. Every new science must come from somewhere. It is usually easy enough to discover forerunners and anticipations. What is more difficult is to pinpoint and clarify what ...

Quiet Crisis in India.John P. Lewis. Faber, 41s. 6d Quiet Crisis in India is a curious title for a rather complacent, if competent, book by an American Liberal in which he expounds with sympathy the ...

Norbert Wiener, in the early 1960s, foresaw a parallel between the process of automation and the nature of magic as it has been depicted in countless fantasies, from Goethe’s tale of the sorcerer’s ...

‘To declare an event is to become the son of that event’, wrote Alain Badiou in his Saint Paul. Crashed is such a declaration. Rich in illuminating detail, Adam Tooze’s book offers the most extensive ...

The names of Leon Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg have often been linked, sometimes with good reason and sometimes also without. It has been said, wrongly, that they shared before 1917 a common view of ...