SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
Migrants and Militants by Alain Badiou
Quantity overwhelms quality of French philosopher's political analysis
ARCHAIC? Gilets jaunes demonstrate in 2018
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
ANOTHER month, another Alain Badiou publication.
While this is an exaggeration, it’s true that English translations of the philosopher’s works are turning into something of a flood.
That said, as the numbers of Badiou’s available works expand, so their length contracts. The same might be said of the originality of their content as well.
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