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- Passages – August 2025 | 1The segmentation in Kluge’s stories, however, is not merely perspectival and cinematographic (a fifteen-minute sequence of experience juxtaposed with a paragraph foreshortening eight years); it also projects qualitative leaps into incommensurable dimensions; this particular reading experience is prolonged in Geschichte und Eigensinn, where notes on Marx’s “mode of production” (he dozed much of the day… Read more: Passages – August 2025 | 1
- The House of a Hundred Gates: Antonio Gramsci on the Roman Catholic Church in Modern PoliticsFrom the beginning of the 19th century the most influential theorizations of Christianity have looked to Protestantism as the exemplary denomination. This would be especially true of the denunciation of religion as false consciousness. The Young Hegelians targeted a Christianity of a distinctly Lutheran aspect but regarded Catholicism, by contrast, as a historically superseded formation… Read more: The House of a Hundred Gates: Antonio Gramsci on the Roman Catholic Church in Modern Politics
- Passages – July 2025 | 3Few understood that, for him, it was a way of mourning the workers’ movement. He began this process long ago, and perhaps this was, at bottom, the meaning of his life’s work. It was not a renunciation, but a lucid break, an uprooting: to face and confront the end of a world head-on in order… Read more: Passages – July 2025 | 3
- Passages – July 2025 | 2But if all contradictions are once and for all disposed of, we shall have arrived at so-called absolute truth — world history will be at an end. And yet it has to continue, although there is nothing left for it to do — hence, a new, insoluble contradiction. Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End… Read more: Passages – July 2025 | 2
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The Latest Issue: No. 2, Winter / Spring 2025
Editorial
The maxim that one must support the lesser of two evils is ordinarily understood to disqualify uncompromising opposition. But here it will be argued that it logically entails a realistic intransigence.
Editors
The Big Ship
The ongoing epic of the mind’s revolutionary party.
David Lau
The Legitimacy of War
What is happening to the historic conventions regulating armed conflict on land, sea and in the air?
Ray Lester Fitzsimmons
German Wings and Ukraine Spain
Heil History!
Janos Ross
Why We Remain Jews
Athens vs Jerusalem revisited.
L. Pinsky
Requiem for the Peckerwood
Vorticist, bombardier, satirical novelist and inter-war polemicist of the eccentric Right casts his gaze on the destiny of the white man.
Rick Dasenbrock
Protoscape (insert)
Behold a 1000 layers of mummified bodies and other geological phenomena.
Max Hooper-Schneider
The Insufferable Being of Blackness
Afropessimism as the climax of American race talk.
Clarence Blaine-Denning
Weather Report
Hostile reflections on the ideologies of the “poet’s essay.”
Odette Wong
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