Vanguard Collectibles: Isabel Waidner’s Gaudy Bauble
Gaudy Bauble is what happens when the margins/marginalised suddenly decide to chew on the centre by means of an avant-garde smouldering with differences in language and sexuality — the uselessness and toxicity of binaries as mechanisms of definition are, once again, gleefully exposed.
MH reviews Gaudy Bauble by Isabel Waidner.
Neoliberalism in Crisis
Most of the left has put its eggs in the basket of combating neoliberalism, but I think we have to look beyond neoliberalism and look at capitalism itself. This means looking at the social practices of the present form of capitalism, which is moving away from neoliberalism and toward some kind of right-wing populism. Obviously, this is in response to the self-evident refutation of neoliberalism by the Great Recession.
On the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Marx’s Capital, Sofia Cutler, Sara Farah and Emanuel Guay interview Kevin B. Anderson and John Bellamy Foster.