The ruins of empire: Asia’s emergence from western imperialism | Pankaj Mishra Clearly, it would help if no Asian or African voices interrupt this intellectual and moral onanism. Astonishing as it may seem, there is…
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Where is Hegel Coming From?
Book Review: Hegel’s Critique of Kant, Sally Sedgwick (Oxford University Press, 2012) Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics, Béatrice Longuenesse (Cambridge University Press, 2007) If Žižek is right and Hegel is the most important philosopher for the…
Book Review: Prison Notebooks: Volume II, Antonio Gramsci
Book Review: Prison Notebooks: Volume II, Antonio Gramsci “The concepts of revolutionary and internationalist, in the modern sense, are correlated to the precise concept of state and class: a poor understanding of the state means a…
HEROIC FIGURE, FROM “HEIMAT”
HEROIC FIGURE, FROM “HEIMAT” But where’s the New Jerusalem I remember, alternatives once sought and then rejected for another term of college in September? And where’s the hope, now vaguely recollected, for something to emerge…
The origin of ‘Just War’
As the West pummels and pounds yet another country, this time Libya, purportedly to rescue its people, it is worth revisiting (albeit briefly) the concept of ‘just war’, which has led to concepts such as…
If Only Our Future Hadn’t Looked So Bright – Back To Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now
Book Review: Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now – Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything, by David Sirota (New York, Ballantine Books $25) We had a unusually…
Indigenous Land Rights and Native Title in Australia
The land is my backbone. I only stand straight, happy, proud and not ashamed about my colour because I still have land. The land is the art. I can paint, dance, create and sing as…
The Whistlers – a new revolution
I was reading a fascinating article in the Canadian Journal for Traditional Music recently. The article was about AL Lloyd, the great English collector of folksong. Lloyd had a remarkable life – orphaned at 15,…
Life Imitates Art – Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article called Life Imitates Art. The first part can be found here. For more information on the devastating legacy of Agent Orange in Viêt Nam, visit www.lenaldis.co.uk…
WikiLeaks Against Empire: On the Right to Create New History
With the release of the Afghan and Iraq War Diaries earlier this year and the current release of 250,000 confidential US Embassy cables, who at the end of 2010 does not know the name of…
He Cometh Like a Thief in a Knight!
Some of My Best Friends are Male Prostitutes The ancient Chinese use to have an ancient Chinese blessing, which was go like this: May you be in the Interesting Times. The Interesting Times was the…
The 10/10 event: origins of an economic meltdown
This article was first published in The Irish Anarchist Review The purpose of this text is to try and tell the story of our current economic situation, how we got here, and what we can…
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Book Review: The Woman Who Shot Mussolini: Frances Stonor Saunders – Faber and Faber (London 2010). 375pp This is an unusual book. It deals in detail with a dramatic (if overlooked) historical event and offers…
Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith In Beijing
Book Review: Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith In Beijing (Verso: 2008) Giovanni Arrighi argues convincingly (in Adam Smith In Beijing) that we are seeing the end of the most rapacious social and economic system the world…
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