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Give Dust a Tongue: Salvage Perspectives 13
Every issue of Salvage is accompanied by a pamphlet wherein the Editorial Collective presents a synoptic overview of certain key aspects of the political conjuncture as we see it – our perspectives. The below is the editorial perspectives essay that accompanies...
The Ordinary is a Horror: Abolition, Hegemony, and the State
Early one evening in December 2020, two police officers in Virginia initiated a traffic stop on Caron Nazario, ostensibly because he was driving his newly-purchased Chevy Tahoe without licence plates. Police lights flashing in his rear-view mirror, Nazario slowed...
The Actuality of Counter-Revolution
I always thought that something, in 1920–25, was almost born: Lenin, Freud, Surrealism, revolutions, jazz, silent films. All this could have come together. And then each followed its sporadic destiny. Isolated, they could all be strangled. It is only in my memory that...
The Meaning of Keir Starmer
When Keir Starmer was elected leader of the Labour Party, the commentariat acquired an idée fixe. The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee described him as a ‘trusted, tried-and-tested, big-brained grown-up’; the Telegraph’s Tom Harris touted the return of ‘grown-up politics’;...
The Right Against the Rule of Law?
Over the course of Boris Johnson’s leadership, the Conservative Party’s commitment to the ‘rule of law’ has come repeatedly under scrutiny. Among the most recent examples of this has been the ‘Partygate’ scandal, in which Johnson and various Conservatives were found...
The Family: In and Against
The ‘depressing thing about the Christmas season’, Eve Sedgwick writes in ‘How To Bring Your Kids Up Gay’, ‘is that it’s the time when all the institutions are speaking with one voice.’ It’s true: the John Lewis Christmas advert; Boris Johnson’s attempts to ‘save’...
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