Field Notes
Beyond the Green New Deal
By Max AjlThe agrarianist Wendell Berry wrote once that modernity had bred a dangerous and close-to-fatal ignorance about ecology. In contrast to earlier ways of life, our social relations, which are our productive relations, do not force us to reckon with the consequences of what we consume in the course of making our lives, including making the people who come after we do.
The Secret is Out
By David Levi StraussPeriodically, it seems, the fake language of power is pushed aside by the real language of power on the floor of the U.S. Senate, in a hearing for the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice nominee.
Tapping into the unrealized futures of the past: QUINN SLOBODIAN with Pavlos Roufos
By Pavlos RoufosQuinn Slobodian’s recent book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018) is a brilliant exposition of the widely contested concept of “neoliberalism.” Slobodian situates the concept in its historical context, urging a reconsideration of the term on both those who reject its significance and those who continue to misuse it.
Border Jumpers: Afropean Itineraries
By Bruno Le DantecThe desperate race towards the high fences of the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, in northern Morocco, has become an iconic image illustrating the “immigrant problem” and justifying coercive measures like Frontex (the European agency guarding frontiers and coastlines). But it is long before there that young Africans launch themselves onto the routes of exile.
