The Barber Who Read History review

Brett Heino | January 25, 2022

When Rowan Cahill first asked whether I would be interested in reading and reviewing his and Terry Irving’s The Barber Who Read History: Essays in Radical History, I signed on without hesitation. Almost immediately, a series of questions passed through my head that will be instantly [...]

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Ten Questions on Negative Totality

Chris O'Kane | Riki Scanlan | Anna Sturman | January 18, 2022

The Past & Present Reading Group recently held a workshop on ‘negative totality,’ read through the work of Chris O’Kane, who has developed and defended that concept within contemporary critical theory. In lieu of his attendance (due to our failure to achieve space-time compression), we have [...]

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Silent but deadly: Gas reform during war in Ukraine

Elliot Dolan-Evans | January 4, 2022

The war in Donbas has raged for almost seven years. The conflict, fought between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and ‘pro-Russian’ separatist groups and primarily affecting the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetska and Luhanska, has continued since 2014. The war has been waged over a 427km contact [...]

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Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’

Adam David Morton | December 31, 2021

This text was first published in Avanti!, Turin edition, from Antonio Gramsci’s column “Sotto la Mole,” January 1, 1916.

Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day.

That’s why I hate these New Years that fall like [...]

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Game of Claims: On Speculative Finance and the Social Logic of Leverage

Martijn Konings | December 28, 2021

Martijn Konings in conversation with Erik Bordeleau and Laura Lotti

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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | December 23, 2021

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology, trans. Martin Sohn-Rethel (Haymarket Books, 2021).

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Novel Reading in 2021

Adam David Morton | December 21, 2021

Following my annual practice, I have listed here my “novel” reading for 2021. This is a way of documenting what I get through in a year’s worth of reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “normal” academic reading—albeit there was, again, [...]

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