CONTENTS
Perry Anderson: Jottings on the Conjuncture
A reckoning of global shifts in political and economic relations, with China emerging as new workshop of the world and US power, rationally applied elsewhere, skewed by Israeli interests in the Middle East. Oppositions to it gauged, along with theoretical visions that offer exits from the perpetual free-market present.
Gabriel Piterberg: Zion's Rebel Daughter
Principally known for works on totalitarianism and the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt’s powerful and prophetic critiques of the Zionist project, written in the 1940s, have rarely been discussed. Gabriel Piterberg tracks the evolution of this brave and independent thinker.
Eric Hazan: Under New Management
Dispatches from France during Sarkozy’s first hundred days. In the Elysée, echoes of a Giscardian ‘change of style’; among the Socialists, a programmatic disarray compounding a long heritage of desertions; in the streets, immigration raids, counter-demonstrations, and hints of an embattled everyday resistance.
Roberto Schwarz: Competing Readings
Roberto Schwarz discusses the cultural-political import of rival interpretations of Machado de Assis, within the critical space of world literature. Local versus international, specific versus universal, entangled within the ironies and dizzying narrative disjunctures of a Brazilian master.
BOOK REVIEWS
Poulod Borojerdi on Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future. Magisterial summation of a lifetime’s engagement with Utopia as literary form and political programme.
Dylan Riley on Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy. A bold theoretical construction of causal relations between democratization and genocide, tested through detailed historical studies.
Aaron Benanav on Thomas McCraw, Prophet of Innovation. A Schumpeter for post-Keynesian times? Professional trajectory and personal tragedies of the theorist of creative destruction.
Michael Hardt on Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine. Neoliberal transformations, from Chile to occupied Iraq, as instances of a ‘disaster capitalism’ enabled by socio-economic and ecological trauma.
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Authors and Articles
1960-2010
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Gabriel Piterberg,
‘Zion’s Rebel Daughter’
Eric Hazan,
‘Under New Management’
Roberto Schwarz,
‘Readings as Rivals’
Robin Blackburn,
‘Plan for a
Global Pension’
Malcolm Bull,
‘Vectors of the
Biopolitical’
Mike Davis,
‘The Democrats
before 2008’
Robert Brenner,
‘US Politics’
Editorials:
Tariq Ali,
‘War for the
Middle East’
Chechnya, New Labour, Iraq, Europe
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Articles:
Poulod Borojerdi,
‘The Ends of Utopia’
John Frow,
‘Prose of the World’
Anders Stephanson,
‘Simplicissimus’
Aaron Benanav,
‘Kali’s Prophet’
Dylan Riley,
‘Democracy’s Graveyards?’
Manuel Riesco,
‘Is Pinochet Dead?’
Gopal Balakrishnan,
‘Role of Force
in History’
Göran Therborn,
‘After Dialectics’
Peter Mair,
‘Ruling the Void’
Wang Hui,
‘Depoliticized Politics’