Leaving the Contemporary Era
by artifices
Reflections from France on the high school blockades and riots spreading since mid-September 2026. Against the patronizing framing of "children to protect" or a mere protest over school funding, the movement is read alongside the Yellow Vests and the 2023 riots as an expression of a wider crisis of reproduction centered in the banlieues, and a generation with nothing left to lose.
Errant Abstractions
Mapping the Margins of Capitalism
by Daniel Colligan
In an enormous new book on capitalism, Sven Beckert narrates the violence that the world’s core has visited upon its periphery, but without a firm conception of capitalism’s nature or distinctiveness the book’s coherence unravels.
The Least Cynical Man in the World
by Luhuna Carvalho
Ben Morea (1941–2026)
An extract from the Book of Abolitions
by Karl Korsch
Korsch's final text, written in the US in the 1950s