Aug 24th, 2015 |
By Douglas Lain
In the following essay Zero Books author Leigh Phillips argues for crossing ideological lines and reading widely. Leigh Phillips’ book Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts is due out on October 30th from Zero Books I made the mistake yesterday of sharing on Facebook an article from Spiked, the British contrarian online magazine written by
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Jul 22nd, 2015 |
By Frank Smecker
(This paper was originally intended to be read by Frank Smecker for Zero Books’ panel, ‘Theory vs. Praxis, or What is Praxis?, at the 2015 Left Forum.) Less than a week ago, as I was anxiously brooding over what I’d be coming out here with, staring blankly at a motley patchwork of text—(what is sometimes less modestly
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