The consensus among academics and managers alike, it turned out, was that both needs are best served simply by retaining the ...
Some time ago, while working on nineteenth-century literary markets, I was struck by how thoroughly British and French novels managed to streamline European cultural consumption: hundreds of thousands ...
Rather than, as in the Communist Manifesto, calling on workers (‘Proletarians of all countries, unite!’) to create something ...
But rage at rich people with dubious pasts is no substitute for an analysis of the dynamics of the system and the ...
to pass from a “way of conflict” to a “way of life” is to pass out of the main line of the socialist intellectual tradition. I don’t mean that Raymond Williams has “broken” with socialism: at many ...
No Italian thinker enjoys a greater fame today than Gramsci. Alike, academic citations and internet references place him above Machiavelli. The bibliography of articles and books about him now runs to ...
The centrality of the town-country relation in the transition to capitalism in the West and more basically the equation of urbanism with capitalism and progress were already explicitly formulated in ...
When I was in school I was getting disgusted with the attitude of art being so religious or sacred, so I wanted to make something which people could relate to without having read a book about it first ...
The theory of imperialist capitalism, as is well known, has so far attained its most significant treatment in Lenin’s works. This is not only because Lenin attempts to explain transformations of the ...
A sociological critique of calls for the wholesale elimination of police, courts and prisons, arguing instead for a radical ...
In 2017, a fire killed 72 residents of Grenfell Tower in West London, exposing a bleak background of neglect. How can art ...