大象传媒

Splinters Collective

Short essays on the here & now published in a monthly edition, featuring Rosemany Bechler (openDemocracy), Samir Gandesha (大象传媒), Iain Galbraith (author), Leonie Rushforth (author), and Christos Tombras (author).

This month: How far is a social distance? ... Axioms of choice... ANTI-SONG... The Part that Has No Part ... Whatever happened to Dunkirk spirit? Part Two

This month: Whatever happened to Dunkirk spirit?... SLIMY KNOWLEDGE... Endgame?... The Fire of Moscow.

This month: Truth, with strings attached... On Love and Loathing... Street Opera... A qualified welcome to a new Labour leader in the UK...The Gift of COVID-19.

This month: "Genocide is Not an Essential Service!"... Family likeness... THE WEST IS WINNING: Pompeo's address... Ten Seconds from Now... Evelina isn鈥檛 herself?

This month: The Left Contra Critique... HIGH-VIS.... Of Reasons and Causes... AGAINST EXTINCTION III 鈥� a revenant... Confusing green signs

This month: AGAINST EXTINCTION II... Thought Experiment... India after Modi... Trope-hunting... Julian Assange: another other

This month: The dimensions of the smirk... Johnson and I... A matter of choice... Spectres 2... The unravelling of the Reithian BBC, Pt.2.

This month: Beyond Descartes... The Devils Work (in 3 parts) ... Spectres... The unravelling of the Reithian BBC

This month: Family life... Chatter .... Great little men... DeepTrust ... Against Extinction

Columns

As the year closes, we return again to the thinking of Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt: this time, to find the contours for rethinking left populism in their concepts of 鈥榗ritique鈥� and judgment.

Thoughts on Asad Haider鈥檚 'Mistaken Identity: race and class in an age of Trump' (Verso, 2018) contributed to a panel discussion at the fifteenth Historical Materialism annual conference in London. Review.

If these rebels hadn鈥檛 somehow found the courage to strike out in bold, new and, frankly, dangerous directions, we would all be the poorer for it.

Neoliberal globalization has increased both economic insecurity and cultural anxiety. Have theories of populism taken adequate account of such insecurity 鈥� key to understanding the difference between right and left populisms?

The politics of representation are mostly symbolic. In Canada, we have seen over the past two years such a politics of representation at work in the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau.

The 鈥淣o-platforming鈥� of speakers with whom we fundamentally disagree can suggest that force ought to prevail over speech that is itself regarded as 鈥渧iolent.鈥� This suggestion is deeply corrosive.

In the wake of the US Senate narrowly failing to pass the Keystone XL pipeline bill, we must return to the central question: is Canada becoming a petro-state?