Review: Imagined Communities
A quirky book that takes as one of its starting points the historically lousy job that the liberal and marxist traditions had done of theorizing nationalism, Imagined Communities became a…
Scott Neigh
Review: Lament for a Nation
I was not particularly looking forward to reading this classic English-Canadian nationalist text, originally published almost half a century ago. Partly this is because I
The Hunger Games
We are in a strange moment. It is a moment that calls out for resistance — the global retrenchment of class power through austerity; the increasingly bold political attacks on…
Review: Imagined Communities
A quirky book that takes as one of its starting points the historically lousy job that the liberal and marxist traditions had done of theorizing nationalism, Imagined Communities became a…
The Hunger Games
We are in a strange moment. It is a moment that calls out for resistance — the global retrenchment of class power through austerity; the increasingly bold political attacks on…
Review: Science Fiction and Empire
I’m deep in end-of-term mode at the moment, with one big paper and a few smaller things to finish before it’s done, and then book edits to deal with immediately…
Quote: Revolutionary Transitions
Too much of revolutionary thought does not even pose the problem of transition, paying attention only to the overture and neglecting all the acts of the drama that must follow.…
Review: Science Fiction and Empire
I’m deep in end-of-term mode at the moment, with one big paper and a few smaller things to finish before it’s done, and then book edits to deal with immediately…
Review: Bodies and Pleasures
Those of us on the left are often not very good at talking about the living of life at the individual level. There are a number of different ways that…
Quote: Knowledge Production in Movements
All we have just said … however has also been reached via a series of different routes through the discussions internal to the movements of the multitude in the last…
Madeleine Parent, Rest In Peace
I am very sad to report that I just learned (via an email, so I have no link) of the death of Madeleine Parent at the age of 93. My…
Quote: Revolutionary Listening
Now there’s the real question: Can we all get along long enough to make a revolution? Perhaps, but history tells us that it will mean taking leadership from some very…
Review: Bodies and Pleasures
Those of us on the left are often not very good at talking about the living of life at the individual level. There are a number of different ways that…
Local Food and Co-operatives
I wrote the following article for the monthly newsletter of a Sudbury organization called reThink Green. I did this as part of my placement at another local organization called Eat…
Quote: Utopias
In the meantime, to adapt Mrs Thatcher’s famous dictum, there is no alternative to Utopia, and late capitalism seems to have no natural enemies (the religious fundamentalisms which resist American…
Review: Exile and Pride
I often feel that describing the pieces that I write in response to books as “reviews” is a bit inaccurate because I only occasionally relate to the books in question…
Local Food and Co-operatives
I wrote the following article for the monthly newsletter of a Sudbury organization called reThink Green. I did this as part of my placement at another local organization called Eat…
Review: Exile and Pride
I often feel that describing the pieces that I write in response to books as “reviews” is a bit inaccurate because I only occasionally relate to the books in question…
Long Quote: History
So long as one operates within the discourse of ‘history’ produced at the institutional site of the university, it is not possible simply to walk out of the deep collusion…
Long Quote: History
So long as one operates within the discourse of ‘history’ produced at the institutional site of the university, it is not possible simply to walk out of the deep collusion…