French philosophy in the twentieth century was marked above all by two projects.footnote 1 For the sake of simplicity we might distinguish them with the labels of ‘subject’ and ‘science’. On the one ...

Who are the prophets of this epic shift? The first we to ‘collect ads’ is Eduardo Paolozzi, who calls the collages made from his collection ‘Bunk’ (an ambivalent homage to Henry Ford?). Although this ...

To begin with, there are two observations to be made. First, the reader should be warned that this review of Gabriel Piterberg’s The Returns of Zionism, a work by a convinced anti-Zionist, has been ...

Anything that was shown—American, Japanese, Hong Kong: whatever. By my teens there was a terrific range of films you could see in Taipei, because the Nationalist government set up a number of ...

As a boy, I was fascinated by Sherlock Holmes.footnote 1 He took drugs, of course—very shocking—but he was extremely clever. I was struck by what he said to Watson, who was rather dim: ‘When you’re ...

Plain truths about Washington’s place in the international system more often than not are spoken in a foreign accent. American diplomats, Henry Kissinger lamented, felt no need for a ‘geopolitical ...

George kennan was an inescapable presence in post-war American foreign relations, intellectually as well as politically.

María Haro Sly on Carlos Pagni, El Nudo. The Buenos Aires periphery as a political subject, from the early workers’ movement ...

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Nic Johnson on Melinda Cooper, Counterrevolution. Neoliberalism as programme to head off the radical potential of the ...

If the past is always that of a certain present, what are the conditions for avoiding the subordination of public history to ...