Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Philosophers pirouetting through a linguistic maze
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
Reading Marx
By Slavoj Zizek, Frank Ruda And Agon Hamza
(Polity: £14.99)
This demanding book will confront any reader unused to the abstruse terminology of modern philosophy with an intellectual assault course.
The intention of three leading Marxist philosophers is “to read and thus think with Marx as a contemporary.”
Recognising the present world hegemony of capitalism, doomed by its own inconsistencies but facing “no outer threats (a socialist bloc for example) … they can see everywhere a blatant regression to previous forms of domination … that for long seemed to have been invalidated by history.”
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