Radical Thought
There is a certain amount of name brand-recognition going on here. Verso, since its soixante-huitard days as New Left Books, has long been a specifically political publisher, and unlike Continuum or Penguin, any eclecticism here is part of a wider project rather than mere accident. Some of the authors here are familiar from earlier entries in the series, the ‘classics’ of Verso’s roster. Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, Louis Althusser, Terry Eagleton, Theodor Adorno all make re-appearances. Their major contemporary draw, Slavoj Žižek, is absent for the first time, though he does contribute a lengthy new preface to Adorno’s In Search of Wagner.
Owen Hatherley reviews the latest cohort of Verso’s Radical Thinkers series of texts.
The new word for modern
Following launches in Berlin and Oslo, Broken Dimanche Press are throwing a party exhibit for The Kakofonie in Dublin this Tuesday (25 August). Featuring work by artists, writers, musicians and architects from over seven countries [including 3:AM‘s Karl Whitney], The Kakofonie strives to overcome the linguistic, artistic and geographical boundaries that often surround traditional literary […]
3:AM Reloaded
What you (may have) missed on 3:AM recently: Fiction: ‘The Wood Tick’ by Adam Graupe Reviewed: Andrew Coates on David Szalay’s The Innocent, Richard Marshall on Laura Oldfield Ford’s Savage Messiah zine, Max Dunbar on Shahriar Mandanipour’s Censoring an Iranian Love Story & John Houghton on Arthur Morrison’s The Child of the Jago of 1896 […]