What Is Materialism?
Nicolas D Villarreal gives depth and meaning to an often fraught concept with ample currency in contemporary left-wing circles: materialism. As counterintuitive as it might …
Althusser
Rethinking Marxist Politics
Drawing from Gramscian and Althusserian approaches to pedagogy, Yanis Iqbal argues that a successful future for socialist politics must be based on a merger of …
Worse than Dead: A Critical Response to McKenzie Wark
James W reviews McKenzie Wark’s Capital is Dead. Nearly a year has passed since the publication of McKenzie Wark’s short book Capital is Dead: Is This …
Spontaneous Philosophy in Science and Activism
The Cosmonaut crew sits down to discuss Althusser’s Lectures on Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists. We historically situate the text and talk about Althusser’s conception of …
Articulating and Organizing the Social Body with Asad Haider
Donald and Rudy welcome Asad Haider from Viewpoint Magazine to discuss the present political moment. Using Badiou’s “The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and …
Against Socialist Reactionaries: a response to Jacob Richter
Rosa Janis responds to Jacob Richter’s April 9th, 2020 letter to Cosmonaut on social conservatism and the left. Normally we do not respond to letters …
A Fight on Two Fronts: On Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise
Doug Enaa Greene and Shalon van Tine discuss Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 film La Chinoise in its historical context. Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise (1967) is not an ordinary …