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Negative Capitalism – Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era
Tested in the fire of violent politics, financial chicken, depression, online sex and cynicism, comes a vicious love-letter to contemporary life. What is Negative Capitalism? When was the last time you had a couple of days of just relaxation, without the pretext of a holiday, which didn’t involve checking emails, buying things, or guiltily trying
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Articles
Tested in the fire of violent politics, financial chicken, depression, online sex and cynicism, comes a vicious love-letter to contemporary life. What is Negative Capitalism? When was the last time you had a couple of days of just relaxation, without the pretext of a holiday, which didn’t involve checking emails, buying things, or guiltily trying
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Guest Blog from Mark Fisher I often joke that, as I was completing Capitalist Realism in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, it felt as if capitalism might be finished before the book was. Yet it was very soon clear that the crisis had not ended capitalism, nor had it ended capitalist realism.
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THE GREATER ROCK‘N’ROLL SWINDLE by Rhian E. Jones ‘A given socio-historical moment is never homogeneous; on the contrary, it is rich in contradictions.’ – Antonio Gramsci ‘Rock’n’roll is not just an important part of our culture… It’s immensely important to the future of this country.’ – Tony Blair, 1994 The picture taken in July 1997 at
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Challenges for a new left Has capitalism lost its capacity for internal renewal – to reform under the pressures of its own crises and antagonisms? Speaking back in 1996 on his book, The Future of Capitalism, Lester Thurow reflected on how social progress had been achieved in the 20th century. He anticipated that the decline of left
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Guest Post by Leo Zeilig I have spent most of my adult life in a far-left organisation. The party’s organisers—my comrades—are strong and dedicated fighters against sexism. My earliest memories in the party are of clear and sharp reprimands when I spoke of women as ‘girls’, or, on one occasion, as a new member, spoke about
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Promotions
Eddie the Kid: Sexual Violence, Socialism and the Left Guest Post by Leo Zeilig I have spent most of my adult life in a far-left organisation. The party’s organisers—my comrades—are strong and dedicated fighters against sexism. My earliest memories in the party are of clear and sharp reprimands when I spoke of women as ‘girls’, or, on one occasion, as a new member, spoke about
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Cloud Time by Rob Coley and Dean Lockwood 978-1-78099-095-8, $14.95, £9.99 With the cloud, we have certainly entered into what China Mieville dubs the ‘Tentacular Novum’. Even as businesses and consumers embrace it, the cloud remains an unknown force. It is an overdetermined, unutterable power of transformation, an escapee from the ‘prison-house of the known’ as Lovecraft had it. Infused within the fabric
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Events & Announcements
Daniela Cascella, En abîme – Information and Forthcoming Events The following is information and events for En Abîme by Daniela Cascella - An archival fiction of listening, where landscape is reinvented and abstracted across autobiographical narratives of sounds, books, pictures and songs. 1. En abîme En abîme: Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction (Zero Books, 2012) is now available online from the ICR shop and the
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Book News
eBook Price Promotion: The Prisoner’s Dilemma – Sean Stuart O’Connor eBook: 978-1-78099-626-4 | $0.99 | £0.99 for ONE week only from 15/05/13 – 22/05/13 on all supported platforms What a great first novel…a real pleasure to read - William Boyd Over 20 positive customer reviews on Amazon alone! 978-1-78099-741-4 (Hardcover) £12.99 $22.95 978-1-78099-740-7 (eBook) £6.99 $9.99 (normal eBook price will resume after promotion period) A claustrophobic and fast-moving game
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Chapter One – The spirit is a bone If ‘the market’ is an ever present reality in daily life today, it is a mysterious and enigmatic presence. Being at once omnipresent yet ineffable, it is not surprising that attempts to symbolise the market have been so fantastic. This book investigates the idea that the market
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