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Uneven and Confused Development in Left Art Criticism: A Review of Adam Turl's 'Gothic Capitalism'
Patricia Manos, September 24, 2025
Adam Turl's recent work on art, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted From Heaven & Earth, substitutes aesthetic choices for concrete advice on cultural organizing, argues Patricia Manos.
Abundance Liberalism or Social Efficiency: A Review of 'Abundance'
Similar to the discourse of late nineteenth century progressivism, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance proposes an empty theory of progress that fails to reckon with the reality of political struggle, argues Marco Rosaire Rossi. – Read review
When Science Is Abandoned, The Flower Withers: A Review of 'Flowers For Marx'
Flowers For Marx, a new collection of essays on Marxism, successfully facilitates dialogue between multiple camps of the contemporary socialist movement, but suffers from its contributors' collective reluctance to defend Marxism as a heterodox science, argues Nicolas D Villarreal. – Read review
Anarchism In Theory: A Review of Catherine Malabou's 'Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy'
Catherine Malabou's Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy is a brilliant attempt to think anarchism anew. If it fails to convincingly link up its critique with present-day politics, it could prove decisive for the anarchist movements of the future, argues Conrad Hamilton. – Read review
Pre-Digestion of the Status Quo: A Review of 'Why We Fear AI'
Nico D Villarreal reviews Why We Fear AI, a new book by Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer, and argues that, although the work has merits, the authors' heavy reliance on well trodden ideas from the left of academia precludes a broader critical discussion of AI. – Read review