As Álvarez showed in his powerful crónica of the country today, The Tribe (2017; 2019), belonging to said tribe is a ...

To the victors, the spoils. A hundred years ago, after the conclusion of the First World War, the British Empire and its French ally broke up the old Ottoman-dominated Arab world and created new ...

One achievement of the avant-garde has been to show that anything can be art. There are numerous memorable examples spanning the century from Duchamp’s Fountain (1917) to Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian ...

Ahundred days after Trump’s second inauguration, the political philosopher Francis Fukuyama published a blistering critique of his rule. The single thread running through all Trump’s ...

Vilified by the entire cultural establishment and virtually every media outlet in the country, with the partial exception of Fox News, Trump managed to win the Upper Midwest—outperforming the opinion ...

Kōjin Karatani’s Structure of World History is a book so strange and ambitious, and of such striking theoretical imagination, that any approach to it risks misrepresenting its object.footnote 1 It is ...

An initial answer could be: it is the transformation of social existence—at some unspecified moment between Dante and Cervantes—into a ‘world of convention’ whose abnormality Lukács tries to capture ...

Persons are not separate objects in space. They are centres of orientation to the world. These different centres and their worlds are not islands, but the nature of their reciprocal influence and ...

‘What distinguishes the analyst is that he makes of a function that is common to all men a privileged use: when he becomes the bearer of the word. For this is indeed what the analyst does for the ...