NLR 149, September–October 2024
Fredric Jameson Agon: The Iliad. Drafted as the foundational first chapter of Volume One, the last to be written, of Jameson’s monumental Poetics of Social Forms.A richly rewarding study of the Iliad, located within the ‘immense transition’ from the great imperial cities of the Bronze Age.The logic of agon—a multi-sided struggle—as governing principle of the great poem.
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Raymond Williams The Future of Marxism. Published at last in NLR, a remarkable, long-buried intervention by one of the leading thinkers of the early New Left. Characteristically original and independent-minded considerations of the relation of Marxism to the actually existing Communist regimes and the correspondences of socialist theory …
NLR 147 • May/June 2024 - New Left Review
Jul 2, 2024 · Cédric Durand Landscapes of Capital. A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the ‘rentier stage’ of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.
NLR 146, March–April 2024 - New Left Review
May 3, 2024 · Richard Beck Bidenism Abroad. Panoramic survey of US foreign policy as Washington attempts to maintain its global hegemony in conditions of faltering growth. Containing China, confronting Russia, driving decarbonization: each of Biden’s stated aims has been beset by insoluble contradictions from the outset, Richard Beck argues, now compounded by Israel’s punitive war on Gaza.
NLR 144, November–December 2023 - New Left Review
NLR 144, November–December 2023. Includes articles by Leo Robson, Oliver Eagleton, Francis Mulhern, Serge Halimi, Hito Steyerl, Alexander Zevin, Patricia McManus, Saul Nelson, Loic Wacquant and Cihan Tuğal
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NLR 138, November–December 2022 - New Left Review
Dec 21, 2022 · NLR 138, November–December 2022. Includes articles by Ekaitz Cancela, Pedro M. Rey-Araújo, Thomas Meaney, Christopher Bickerton, Dylan Riley, Robert Brenner, Michael Cramer, Harriet Friedmann, Susan Watkins, Cédric Durand, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Philip Cunliffe and Caitlín Doherty
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Seven Theses on American Politics - New Left Review
Dec 21, 2022 · 1 . For most of the twentieth century, us political parties represented different coalitions of capitalists, who appealed to working-class voters on the basis that they would promote economic development, expand job opportunities and generate revenues to invest in public goods. This was the ‘material basis of consent’ that determined party success at the polls: a local version of the ...