01 September, 2011 // Category: Economy, History, Philosophy and Theory
David Graeber is a professor of anthropology at Goldsmith’s, London, and a left-wing political activist. His most recent book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has just been published in the UK. It looks at the history and evolution of debt as both a moral and an economic concept, drawing on...
29 August, 2011 // Category: Economy, History, Philosophy and Theory
David Graeber is a Reader of Anthropology at Goldsmith’s, London, and a left-wing political activist. His most recent book, Debt: The First 5000 Years, has just been published in the UK. It looks at the evolution of debt as both a moral and an economic concept, drawing on anthropological evidence...
12 August, 2011 // Category: Culture, Economy, Gender equality, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Jonathan Rutherford is professor of cultural studies at Middlesex University and editor of Soundings journal. He is co-editor of The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox as well as author and editor of books on culture, gender and politics. He spoke to Edward Lewis about the challenges...
04 August, 2011 // Category: Culture, Gender equality, Media, Philosophy and Theory, Politics
In her first book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism, journalist and activist Laurie Penny argues that the commodification, sexual objectification and degradation of women’s bodies, is key to maintaining advanced capitalist societies. If women said ‘No’ – no to pornification, no...
01 August, 2011 // Category: Culture, Gender equality, Media, Philosophy and Theory, Politics
In her first book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism, journalist and activist Laurie Penny argues that the commodification, sexual objectification and degradation of women’s bodies, is key to maintaining advanced capitalist societies. If women said ‘No’ – no to pornification, no...
21 July, 2011 // Category: Philosophy and Theory, Religion
Al-Qaeda returned the Enlightenment to the political agenda. The debate about the significance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Bush administration’s subsequent ‘war on terror’ was framed, in part, as a debate about Enlightenment values. For many the attacks spoke above all to the...
29 June, 2011 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory
On Thursday a quarter of a million public sector workers are due to go on strike. You may be one of them. Perhaps, though, your union is due to strike, but you are uncertain about what to do. After all the workers involved in this strike – teachers, government workers, college staff, and others...
26 May, 2011 // Category: Culture, Media, Philosophy and Theory
Marx Reloaded is the Arte culture documentary that mixes serious interviews with some of Europe’s most renowned leftist thinkers with coquettish animation featuring Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky. Among those ruminating on the state of capitalism in the midst of ongoing global recession are John...
26 April, 2011 // Category: Education, Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory
This interview is with the late political theorist, Brian Barry (1936-2009), and was conducted in 2006. The interview was initially carried out for the now defunct radical left website UK Watch, which in some ways was a predecessor of NLP. The interview focused on Barry’s last book, Why Social...
12 April, 2011 // Category: History, International, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Zellig Harris is arguably one of the most influential and unsung figures in 20th century left politics, perhaps most widely known now as an early mentor of Noam Chomsky. He was, however, a noted linguist and enigmatic teacher who embraced a wide array of approaches to social and economic...
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