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Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
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@newleftreview.bsky.socialIn NLR 160: Ultra-Processed Images.
Julian Stallabrass reviews Trevor Paglen’s How to See Like a Machine, on the new regime of images made increasingly by and for other machines.
@newleftreview.bsky.socialIn NLR 160: People Who Think Differently.
Ilya Budraitskis on Soviet dissidence, reviewing Benjamin Nathans’s To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause.
@newleftreview.bsky.socialFernando Rugitsky for Sidecar:
'Brazil stands at a crossroads, and the path it chooses will shape not only its own future but also that of the region as a whole. The United States is watching.'
@newleftreview.bsky.socialRadhika Desai on Mark Carney and the US–Canada trade conflict, for Sidecar:
@newleftreview.bsky.socialLuke Roberts on Musa McKim Guston:
'A poem is a special sort of timepiece: it can be a way of stopping time or keeping time, even measuring it, as in the little moment of suspense in the final linebreak.'
@newleftreview.bsky.socialIn NLR 160: Polarity's Dialectician.
Mario del Pero reviews Anders Stephanson's American Imperatives, a collection of essays from Cold War historiography's most radical thinker.
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@newleftreview.bsky.socialIn NLR 160: Carlo Ginzburg & Perry Anderson, Correspondence.
Intellectual exchanges from 1999–2007, covering war, politics, religion, history and philology.
@newleftreview.bsky.socialWolfgang Streeck on polycrisis and the AfD:
'From the perspective of the ruling political class, this certainly has an appeal – demonstrations by all right-thinking people against the AfD are preferable to demonstrations against the rising cost of living.'
@newleftreview.bsky.socialJoshua Rahtz in Sidecar:
'The rightist Alternative für Deutschland’s victory in the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag election on 6 September gives political refusal a new form in the Federal Republic.'
@newleftreview.bsky.socialSophia Goodfriend in Sidecar:
'State-sponsored festivals and pitch-days help spin the refinement of algorithms to kill as a lucrative white-collar job like any other.'
@newleftreview.bsky.socialIn NLR 160: Rogue Verbs.
Mao Jian maps China’s contemporary cultural scene, from hugely popular micro-dramas and video games to avant-garde literature.
@newleftreview.bsky.socialIn NLR 160: The New National Question.
Benjamin Kunkel analyses a slew of studies on deglobalization and the rise of economic nationalism, sketching out possibilities for contemporary lefts.
@newleftreview.bsky.socialIn NLR 160: Changing the Guard.
‘A desperate Labour Party resorted to what might be called the Messiah complex: the hope that a new leader, uncontaminated by past mistakes, will put everything right.’
—Donald Sassoon on the latest Westminster coup.
@newleftreview.bsky.social'There is perhaps no other building in the world where you can watch a skilled, confident architect moving so far, so fast.'
Owen Hatherley on the Glasgow School of Art:
@newleftreview.bsky.socialNLR 160 is out now.
Featuring Benjamin Kunkel on the ‘new national question’; Carlo Ginzburg's correspondence with Perry Anderson; Mao Jian on new cultural forms in China; Donald Sassoon on the British Labour Party, plus book reviews...
@newleftreview.bsky.socialIn NLR 159: Hyperpolitics in Command.
Anton Jäger diagnoses the scrambled political culture of Western elites.
