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What is a crash? It is the collapse of that belief. AI has given rise to two bubbles. There is a stock market bubble – the ...

Landy on Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression. A critical theorist reformulates the concept of progress as social-reflexive problem-solving.

A response to Hillary Clinton.

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Every time the global economy plunges into turmoil, talk of the coming end of dollar hegemony resurfaces. In March 1978 – in the wake of the collapse of the Bretton Woods system and amid stagflation ...

What is the relationship between Marx’s and Weber’s interpretations of capitalism? Rivers of ink have run seeking to synthesize or counterpose the two great analysts of capitalism. The discussion ...

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Ben Lerner once described Gerald Murnane’s The Plains (1982) as a ‘bizarre masterpiece that can feel less like something you’ve read than something you’ve dreamed’. Something similar could be said of ...

Suppose you are a philosopher, trying to decide which of your colleagues should be made redundant. It’s a bit like one of those thought experiments (beloved of philosophers) in which you have to ...

‘I won’t be able to write from the grave’, the American poet Fanny Howe once wrote, ‘so let me tell you what I love’. The list that follows is brief: brown bread, salt, wine, a windy day, intimacy ...

Fritz Bartel, The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism: Cambridge MA ...