PEN’s Freedom to Write Index [from this source:] … tracks the detention and imprisonment of writers, and in 2023, at least 339 writers were detained or imprisoned around the world for their writing or otherwise exercising their freedom of expression. Since the first edition of the Index was published in

A group of academics affiliated with North American institutions have1 written an open letter condemning the ongoing scholasticide2 in Gaza. This marks the most recent collective gesture in a series of statements from anti-genocidal3 culture workers.4 But unlike other expressions of solidarity,5 thi

… going through the sale theory books at Verso, striking how monotonous the refrain is that these books deal with the present. Strikes me, because it is exactly of the present that we are forgetful. A Lavender user: “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do

What has capitalism to do to survive? Shatz represents the argument Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus presents, the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, to be dealing with what capitalism has to do to survive because “at its most extreme,” he writes, “capitalism encourages a kind of generalised schizophrenia, a

With serendipitous timing Adam Shatz’s Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso, 2023) arrived today, serendipitous because of what I left out of said yobbism post. I had Oliver Bottini say it instead. There it came down to no longer belonging to a community of whatever sort

The tenets of civilisation are now being written by the authors of the gravest barbarity. Times have changed since Walter Benjamin’s day. I’m informed I’m up to 1,990 posts and 298 pages. My father before he died said, Life is too short to read square white