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Browsing Archive May, 2017

  • Editorial Note 1

    Introduction to Issue #8

    1972, the year he gave hanlf the money from his Booker Prize to the Black Panthers and smashed the conventions both of television and of art history forever ...

    On May 22, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    A Tax on Shivering

    If one of the functions of writing is to make the reader see, and see again, here is a brief list of what John Berger made visible. Paintings, photographs, ...

    On May 22, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    John Berger, Enemy of Neoliberal Capitalism

    By JONATHAN CRARY I’m going to begin with an observation that I believe would have been of particular interest for the person whose work brings us together today. ...

    On May 22, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    Berger as Storyteller

    By ANNIE WYMAN What was storytelling for John Berger? In some ways, it was just exactly what you or I might guess it to be: plots, characters, ordered ...

    On May 22, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    On John Berger’s Radical Art Criticism

    By RATIK ASOKAN Robert Lowell once expressed his desire to be: Like Mallarmé who had the good fortune to find a style that made writing impossible It’s a ...

    On May 22, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    Ways of Seeing Everything

    By JANE GAINES “Every image,” John Berger wrote, “embodies a way of seeing.”[1] Because of this embodiment the historian who comes later can study the way in which ...

    On May 22, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

     John Berger as a Theorist for Politics

      By BARNABY RAINE On the little island where I was born, where we lack the cultural wealth of cable news – of CNN and Fox – our ...

    On May 22, 2017 / By Editor
  • Interview 0

    The Left and Liberalism: A Conversation with James Livingston

    By ANDREW HARTMAN and JAMES LIVINGSTON The following exchange originated on Facebook, where Andrew Hartman noticed that James Livingston was getting agitated enough about the Left’s animus toward ...

    On May 22, 2017 / By Editor
  • Fiction 0

    Under the Midmorning Sun

    By IBRAHIM NASRALLAH Excerpted from Under the Midmorning Sun*, translated from Arabic, and with an introduction by Nora Parr. In the West Bank city of Ramallah the first blasts ...

    On May 22, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    Podemos and the Demons of the Spanish Left

    By JOHN McCLURE The Spanish Civil War haunts the Spanish left. It is a source of pride: a legend of heroic popular resistance to the massing forces of ...

    On May 22, 2017 / By Editor
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Issue #15
  • Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
  • Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • Coddled?
  • Our Benevolent Feudalism
  • On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck
  • Zanzibar in Ivoryton
  • Figures of Catastrophe

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