If every situation is exceptional, as Althusser wrote in 1962, then shouldn’t we incorporate this into how we approach politics? Shouldn’t politics entail the construction of new categories and a new ...

We are living in a period of political crisis. Emancipatory (revolutionary or progressive) politics rooted in the fundamental masses of people — workers and poor peasants — is no longer incarnated by ...

In the last few years of his life, Haider was producing a new framework for thinking about politics. He wasn’t the only one doing this work, and this framework for thinking about politics was largely ...

This Afterword was published in 2021 by Verso for the second edition of Mistaken Identity, with the new subtitle: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology. We have chosen to republish it here because it ser...

Over the last decade, a small group of thinkers has sought to pose the question of politics, to formulate a theory of emancipatory politics. In the work of Alain Badiou and Sylvain Lazarus there emerg...

To speak of May ‘68 is not only to speak of the events, but also to speak of the intellectuality of politics. How can we do that today, more than fifty years later? I took part in May ‘68. But I’m una...

I therefore distinguish two great sequences: the first, which I call the arc of revolution, spanning from the late eighteenth century to the 1920s; and a second arc, running from 1920 to the present, ...

Chronologies du présent was published in 2022, and the book features a series of lectures given by Sylvain Lazarus in 2018. Fracture has published translations of two chapters from Chronologies du pré...

In the last few years of his life, Haider was producing a new framework for thinking about politics. He wasn’t the only one doing this work, and this framework for thinking about politics was largely ...

This Afterword was published in 2021 by Verso for the second edition of Mistaken Identity, with the new subtitle: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology. We have chosen to republish it here because it ser...

Over the last decade, a small group of thinkers has sought to pose the question of politics, to formulate a theory of emancipatory politics. In the work of Alain Badiou and Sylvain Lazarus there emerg...

People are living longer. But as life expectancy rises, so do dementia rates. What guidance might Art offer on how best to care for the afflicted? Duncan Stuart ponders the matter via the work of Anni...

In scoring space and time, punctuation often reflects how we arrange our lives. Through the virgules in Ender Başkan’s new book, Brendan Casey notes the impress of work and fatherhood on poems tuned i...

On the Intellectual Legacy of Asad Haider

I wrote, I read, I wrote about what I read...

John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer' at 100

Asad Haider is Assistant Professor of Politics at York University, a founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, and the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Verso Books, 2018; ...

Negation Magazine

A Late Review of Anna Kornbluh's Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

On Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier and David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return

On Paul Valéry’s Monsieur Teste and the Idea of Poetry

“Did he really think it through?” – Henry Miller, Reflections on the Death of Mishima

How do we understand the political incoherence of our time? Has the master intellectual died? What is the true legacy of May 68?

When I rise it’s dissociative pins and needles, a somatic static-wash through the limb as I limp around.

One must live a year facing forwards, but one can only understand a year looking backwards...

إِنَّكَ مَيِّتٌ وَإِنَّهُم مَيِّتونَ You will indeed die, and they [too] will die indeed. Surat az-Zumar 30 On the first of January in the year 15XX, I, Domingo el Monje, translator and scribe, was…

FORT MYERS, FL—His bedroom walls quivering and cracking the moment he opened the secret tome, local teen Charlie Donnell reportedly found his eyes beginning to glow red Thursday as he recited forbidde...

For Simenon, as for Kafka, writing was a gesture. The same imbrication of the physical and the linguistic that drove Kafka to abandon fragment after fragment drove Simenon to produce his improbable nu...

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The essay below, the extremely brief one beginning here, explores the peasants European literature presents. Being precise: two peasants, exactly. The novels discussed herein – one remains unnameab…