bookses

 Piece in the Guardian on Zero Books, with interviews of many of its authors . . . SS: What was the background to your involvement in Zer0? ...

New Labour’s policy on celebrity sheen - populism without popularity - was part-and-parcel of a well-documented world of spin, shady unelect...

Contemporary culture has eliminated the concept and public figure of the intellectual. A cretinous anti-intellectualism presides, cheerled b...

Under the banner of the financial crisis, recent months have seen management threaten departments and jobs in post-92 and Russell group uni...

it & badiou

We can say simply that global capitalism is not a vision of the future. It’s only a sort of continuity of itself. Capitalism is only a repet...

triangulation

IT took issue with what she saw as the false innocence of Alain de Botton's new book on work; ADB took issue with IT's irresponsible...

when is a hand-out not a hand-out

Currently waging a war against administration as the University have decided to ban students from accessing online resources until their fee...

the cavorting pig

Infinite Thought is in San Francisco. Checks out some socialist realism, quotes: 'No nation has ever treated the pig as cruelly, as bar...

money shots then and now

Infinite Thought posts her recent paper on the history of cinematic pornography, of which this is an excerpt: Despite the overwhelming ‘cho...