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‘Whatever Graeber is writing about, whether it is the history of democracy or the relationship between slavery and debt, he is usually trying to solve a problem in the present or to expose its latent potential.’

@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...
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August 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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📣 ANNOUNCING THE 2025 ESSAY PRIZE SHORTLIST 📣

TESSERAE by Phoebe Braithwaite

MY GREAT NOVEL by Cassandre Greenberg

ON REFUSAL by Sarai Kirshner

CRAPES by Hana Loftus

GULLY CRICKET by Abhinav Ullal

SHOW US THE BODY by Claire Wilmot

For more information: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/prizes/essay...
May 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Growing up in the Caribbean, C.L.R. James told Stuart Hall in 1976, “you get a certain comprehensive view...a microcosm of society on the whole. We—not me alone—Fanon had it, Césaire had it, Padmore had it.”
A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite
In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual
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December 24, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite - complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review
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A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite
In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual
www.nybooks.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:54 AM