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Andrei Platonov – On the First Socialist Tragedy
“The situation between technology and nature is a tragic one. The aim of technology is: ‘give me a place to stand and I will move the world’. But the construction of nature is such that it does not...
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The Traitor, a short story by Curzio Malaparte
translated by Walter Murch ” … The burial took place the next day … The priest kept himself apart, about fifty feet away. His lips moved, reciting the prayers for the dead – but in silence, out of...
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John Gray reviews five of his favourite books at The Browser. A few extracts from the conversation to whet your appetite: “I would call a project utopian if it can be known with reasonable confidence...
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Bertolt Brecht testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee
“German poet, playwright, and theoretician, Bertolt Brecht … was a committed Marxist who proposed a new theater to shatter what he saw as the comfortable middle-class conventions of both tragic and...
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Two perspectives on ‘the idea of communism’
An interview with Bruno Bosteels Interviewer: … You partially defend Badiou’s quasi-Platonic conception of communism as “tactical ahistoricism,” writing that, “in the present circumstances, the...
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