In order to resist the attendant vices of his enterprise – the romanticising habits of a national-cinema tradition – Safdie ...

On Thomas Pynchon.

They became emblems of an alien future, imminent and universal. These concrete monuments in remote Minnesota or on the ...

It was Arendt who fused the Marxian and De Tocquevillian traditions in her account of modern totalitarianism (although there ...

Elections in Moldova.

Judith Butler’s essay is welcome on several counts.footnote 1 It returns us to deep and important questions in social theory that have gone undiscussed for some time. And it links a reflection on such ...

Every year, 13 or 14 thousand containers of various goods leave the port of Genoa for Israel. But if they stop the flotilla, ...

Up till the 1970s, the notion that the Rest would follow in the footsteps of the West was intrinsic to the dominant development paradigm. Through industrialization and urbanization, the ...

Awhile ago, science-fiction writer Ted Chiang described Chatgpt’s text output as a ‘blurry jpeg of all the text in the web’—or: as a semantic ‘poor image’.footnote 1 But the blurry output generated by ...

Marco D'EramoAmerican Decline?

Sometime in the next year, a woman will give birth in the Lagos slum of Ajegunle, a young man will flee his village in west Java for the bright lights of Jakarta, or a farmer will move his ...