Futurism: Changing the World with Stories
TweetThere is a self-evident link between sustainability, futurism and science fiction that we need not dwell upon – but at the nexus of fiction & reality there is a domain where we can imagine a...
View Article“The Anatomy of Fascism” by Robert O. Paxton
TweetISBN 9780-141-01432-6. “The Anatomy of Fascism” by Robert O. Paxton was published by Penguin Books in 2004. Paxton hails from Columbia University and has written several books about European...
View ArticleAn Orwell for the 21st Century
ISBN 978-1-62007-538-8 (Kindle edition). “Zero Point – The Unravelling Trilogy – Book One” by Nafeez Ahmed was published by Curiosity Quills in 2014. Recently we crossed new ground as we reviewed our...
View ArticleIllusions in Paris
“A tone of genuine puzzlement always seems to accompany terrorist attacks in the centers of Western power.” wrote Teju Cole in his January 9th column for The New Yorker. “Unmournable Bodies” lamented...
View ArticleArundhati Roy & the selling of India’s Soul
ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-031-9. “Capitalism – A Ghost Story” by Arundhati Roy was published by Verso in 2014. Anyone watching Roy in her talks given in 2002 will be instantly struck at how important it is...
View ArticleClimate, Consent & really existing Capitalism
ISBN: 978-1-60846-363-3. “Masters of Mankind – Essays & Lectures, 1969 – 2013” by Noam Chomsky was published by Haymarket Books in 2014. Such a collection by Chomsky needs almost no introduction...
View ArticleThe Deadly Export of Democracy
ISBN 978-1-78360-167-7. “America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy – the Truth about US foreign Policy and Everything Else” by William Blum was originally published by Zed Books in 2013 (this edition with...
View ArticleFossil Fuelled Suicide & other Power System stories
ISBN: 978-0-241-96524-5. “Power Systems” – conversations between David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky – was published by Penguin in 2013 (from an original 2012 US publication by Metropolitan Books). Once...
View ArticleRevolution Come and Gone
Just how significant was the end of the Cold War? Could we have seen its rapid replacement with the “War on Terror”? In “Deterring Democracy” by Noam Chomsky (ISBN 9780099135012 first published by...
View ArticleLegitimate Points of View – the Chomsky Hand Grenade
What happens if America’s brightest dissident philosopher of the left gets to write for the newspapers? In “Interventions” [Penguin 2007 ISBN: 978-0-141-03180-4, review copy 2008 “updated &...
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