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Thomas Necchi takes on Burroughs, addiction, and the "Ugly Spirit" that animates his work.

Thomas Necchi takes on Burroughs, addiction, and the "Ugly Spirit" that animates his work.

This governance manifests for the majority of the disabled people in England and Wales, if not Britain entirely, as a vast propensity for social murder.

By writing The Peoples’ Era in 2014—a revolutionary theory for a “citizens’ revolution”—Mélenchon performed a Marxist analysis of contemporary capitalism and its crisis. He redefined the notion of “the people”, those for whom revolution is now necessary. He shed light on the objective necessity to break with the capitalist order. This break, this politics of rupture, is perfectly communist. And this is the heart beating in all the work of the France Unbowed: to unite the people around a program of rupture.

The search for unmarked graves of Indigenous children in Canadian Residential Schools led to disturbing discoveries about the Church and State-enforced disappearances of children. This text recounts the ongoing alliance between Indigenous and non-Indigenous survivors of childhood institutionalization in Quebec to protect forensic evidence of atrocities committed against them between World War II and the 1960’s.

For Said, humanism was a worldliness, a recognition (born from and shared with one of his great heroes, Giambattista Vico) that history, as something human beings made, was something they could understand and which they ought to claim responsibility for if they want it to be something else.

Rear projection is much older than cinema. Beginning in the late eighteenth century and reaching a peak of immense popularity in the nineteenth—the era of early industrialization—rear projection, in the form of the magic lantern, was used to display moving images of demons, monsters and ghosts, in evening presentations called phantasmagorias. When Marx wrote of a “phantasmagoric form,” this was the reference he was conjuring. His metaphor therefore linked the dark illusions of cinema’s prehistory to the dark operations capitalism was carrying out on the relations between men. With Kurosawa’s film, the metaphor comes full circle. The cinema of homo economicus ends where it began: in a hell of our own making.

AI is a hype machine, a marketing machine, and through it we can illuminate the labour relations of the data-economy and the intensifying tendencies of what Deleuze and Guattari called ‘machinic enslavement’.

Under the guise of increasing public order, Giorgia Meloni’s Draft Law 1660 is on the verge of criminalizing political dissent in Italy, stripping citizens of their rights and paving the way for unchecked state repression.

Jean Jaurès is not well-known or much-translated in English. The hero of turn-of-the-20th-century French socialism was revered across the international left following his assassination in 1914. This article discusses why he was loved by everyone from social democrats to individualist anarchists, and what can we learn from him today.

Citizen Marx is a new book that studies Marx’s intellectual development in conversation with 19th-century republicanism. I thought it was quite good.