How Life Doesn’t Work

How Life Doesn’t Work

It is quite certain that in terms of merely mechanical principles of nature we cannot even adequately become familiar with, much less explain, organised beings and how they are internally possible. – Kant, Critique of Judgment   The relation of end has proved to...
Dirty Work

Dirty Work

On 17 June, 2025, several days after Israel attacked Iran, Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz sat down for an interview with the German national broadcaster ZDF. Merz had stepped away from the annual G7 Summit, which was happening in the remote Kananaskis region of...
On Theoretical Degeneration

On Theoretical Degeneration

By 1900 the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the strongest socialist party in the world and its Erfurt Program the model for almost all others. In 1912, the SPD was able to win 4.25 million votes in legislative elections. As Pierre Broué shows in The German...
The Anti-Politics of Family Abolition

The Anti-Politics of Family Abolition

In loving memory of Asad Haider ‘And just as God has been pronounced dead quite often but has this sneaky way of resurrecting himself, so everyone debunks marriage, yet ends up married.’ – Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex Why has ‘abolition’ emerged as a...
‘Losing Our Country’: Reform crash in Manchester

‘Losing Our Country’: Reform crash in Manchester

Arrogance cost Reform the Gorton and Denton by-election; the same vice hurt Labour too. The contest took place after Labour MP Andrew Gwynne resigned. He had been suspended from the party for retweeting a sexist remark about Manchester Labour MP Angela Rayner, calling...
The True Infinite and the Republic of Virtue

The True Infinite and the Republic of Virtue

What do Marxists talk about when they talk about love?[1] For E.B. The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. – Karl Marx, ‘Theses On Feuerbach’ theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the...
Kind of Blue: A Short History of Tory Decline

Kind of Blue: A Short History of Tory Decline

With the Conservative Party having collapsed to an all-time low of just 121 seats in 2024’s general election, following fourteen years in which they were both in office and at each other’s throats, it is easy to forget that this is – by some distance – the world’s...
Biocommunism

Biocommunism

Biocommunism emerges from the catastrophes now inflicted throughout the bios, the realm of life itself, by capital. It calls for new disaster relief systems, opening borders to climate refugees, the expropriation of capital from crisis-critical industries, the...
The Politics of Life

The Politics of Life

In early November 2024, something historic happened in Spain. The story starts with the violence of climate change. We all saw the scenes of sudden apocalyptic inundation in Valencia: the streets turned into roaring rivers, the people floating away, the piles of...
What Do People Panic About When They Panic About Anti-Semitism?

What Do People Panic About When They Panic About Anti-Semitism?

‘We have become the Gaza of Europe.’ – Geert Wilders, Amsterdam, 8 November 2024 We know that in so many words – ‘terror’, ‘peace’, ‘hate’, ‘safety’ – redefinition and redescription are key tools in the colonial arsenal[1]This text originated as a talk delivered at...
The Atrocity Exhibition: On Perpetrators

The Atrocity Exhibition: On Perpetrators

‘It is clear to everyone today that the right-wing was right regarding the political issue and regarding the Palestinian issue. Today it is simple, you go anywhere and they tell you to destroy them. In the kibbutz, they tell you to destroy them. My friends at the...
Hamas After 7 October: Resistance and Challenges

Hamas After 7 October: Resistance and Challenges

Following Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination by Israel in Tehran on 31 July 2024 he was succeeded as head of Hamas’ political bureau for the whole movement by Yahya Sinwar, who had led Hamas’ political bureau for the Gaza Strip since 2017. According to Osama Hamdan, a...
The Anxiety of Liberation

The Anxiety of Liberation

I cannot pinpoint the exact moment the realisation dawned on me that for many Palestinians, the process that might end the occupation is fraught with anxiety and fear. It is not only a panic that emanates from the brute force of Israel’s military – its capacity to...
Trieste: Where Mad Minds Can Fly

Trieste: Where Mad Minds Can Fly

The morning sun is already high and hot as we enter the grounds of San Giovanni Park, the former asylum in Italy’s north-eastern city Trieste, through Europe’s largest rose garden – 3000 varieties in mid to full bloom, hot-pinks and blood-reds, lemons, peaches and...
How Accidental is an Accident?

How Accidental is an Accident?

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Papers Please: Poignancy in the Age of State Surveillance

Papers Please: Poignancy in the Age of State Surveillance

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Policing the Wastelands

Policing the Wastelands

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The Cult of the Cold Plunge

The Cult of the Cold Plunge

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In and Against the Dream Factory

In and Against the Dream Factory

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Abolition Communism

Abolition Communism

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The Enemy Trinity

The Enemy Trinity

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The Great Driving Right Show

The Great Driving Right Show

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Letter to the DAAD

Dear Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee, I was deeply honoured to be awarded a residency fellowship for literature for 2024 by the DAAD, of which you are the president. It is with great regret that I must rescind my acceptance of this offer. Since that invitation was...
Some of my best enemies are feminists: on Zionist feminism

Some of my best enemies are feminists: on Zionist feminism

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Freedom on a Damaged Planet

Freedom on a Damaged Planet

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Fossil Sovereignty and Anthropocene Freedom

Fossil Sovereignty and Anthropocene Freedom

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The Arse-End of Empire at the Arse-End of the World

The Arse-End of Empire at the Arse-End of the World

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The Invasion of Ukraine One Year On: An Interview

The Invasion of Ukraine One Year On: An Interview

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A Brave New World:  Notes on Citizenship for the Data-State

A Brave New World: Notes on Citizenship for the Data-State

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The Actuality of Counter-Revolution

The Actuality of Counter-Revolution

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The Meaning of Keir Starmer

The Meaning of Keir Starmer

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The Right Against the Rule of Law?

The Right Against the Rule of Law?

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The Family: In and Against

The Family: In and Against

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Existence is a guerilla campaign: an interview with James Kelman

Existence is a guerilla campaign: an interview with James Kelman

James Kelman interviewed by Rastko Novaković. Malignant bureaucracies, class hatred, the revanchist rump of British Empire – they were all on the wane we were told, but presently they are alive and virulent. These are the cold winds that blow through half a...
For A Marxism Without Guarantees 

For A Marxism Without Guarantees 

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The Harsh Discipline of Democracy

The Harsh Discipline of Democracy

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The Making of the Evangelical Anti-Abortion Movement

The Making of the Evangelical Anti-Abortion Movement

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Free Anthrogenesis: Antiwork Abortion

Free Anthrogenesis: Antiwork Abortion

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Communism, the  Manifesto, and Hate

Communism, the Manifesto, and Hate

This is an edited extract from A Spectre Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, which first appeared in print in Salvage 11: Already, Not Yet, available to buy here. New subscriptions can be taken out here, and start with the next issue.      We have no...
The Darker Shades of Green

The Darker Shades of Green

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Denial Futures

Denial Futures

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What’s ‘Left’ of Lulism?

What’s ‘Left’ of Lulism?

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Histories of People, Histories of Rupture

Histories of People, Histories of Rupture

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Nothing and Everything: Mourning Against Work 

Nothing and Everything: Mourning Against Work 

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Left Fukuyamaism: Politics in Tragic Times

Left Fukuyamaism: Politics in Tragic Times

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Russian Bombs

Russian Bombs

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has begun. It seems obvious that its ambition goes beyond simply supporting the authoritarian statelets in Donetsk and Luhansk, under the almost witty rubric of ‘humanitarian intervention’. The bulk of its forces concentrated on Ukraine’s...
Death Cults of East Anglia

Death Cults of East Anglia

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Abolition: Notes on a Normie Shitstorm

Abolition: Notes on a Normie Shitstorm

Well, you can all relax. No consciousness was raised during this shitstorm. ‘Abolish the family’. The argument explodes, fluoresces and evanesces as if it had no history, detached even from the Sophie Lewis book, the publicity for which goaded the Laschian wing of the...
The Modern Monetary Trick

The Modern Monetary Trick

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Brexit From Below: Nation, Race and Class

Brexit From Below: Nation, Race and Class

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The Resources of Reaction

The Resources of Reaction

I. Why were the Democrats hammered in the recent slew of elections? Why did Terry McAuliffe, an impeccably establishment Democrat who earned his stripes fighting for Clintonite triangulation both in the 1990s and during Clinton’s presidential primary campaign in 2008,...
Lydda Junction

Lydda Junction

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The Year of Prophetic Desire

The Year of Prophetic Desire

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The Ground Under Our Feet

The Ground Under Our Feet

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Palestinian Labour, Unconquered

Palestinian Labour, Unconquered

This is the editorial essay from Salvage 10: The Disorder of the Future.     I. The May pogroms beginning in Sheikh Jarrah, the Palestinian neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, were not merely the work of ‘extremists’. In Israeli terms, they are not particularly...
The Anarchist in the Network

The Anarchist in the Network

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Uncanny Valleys: Notes on the Future of Los Angeles

Uncanny Valleys: Notes on the Future of Los Angeles

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Jewophobia Now

Jewophobia Now

The following piece first appeared in print in Salvage #9: That Hideous Strength, our Autumn/Winter 2020 issue. It follows from Barnaby Raine’s ‘Jewophobia’ in Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen, responded to by Sai Englert in ‘Recentring...
On Natural and Femme Excess: An Insistence

On Natural and Femme Excess: An Insistence

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The #PoliceCrackdownBill and the Fight Ahead

The #PoliceCrackdownBill and the Fight Ahead

On 16 March, the House of Commons undertook the second reading of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. People assembled in Parliament Square, rightly and indignantly protesting this lurch towards authoritarianism. It is testament to popular pressure that...
Great Griefs: Notes on the US Election

Great Griefs: Notes on the US Election

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Getting Dressed for a Pandemic

Getting Dressed for a Pandemic

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Tragedy of the Worker Audiobook

Tragedy of the Worker Audiobook

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Tragedy of the Worker Audiobook

The Tragedy of the Worker Audiobook

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Universalist, Bisexual Ambivalence: An Interview with Daniel Guérin

The Phallic Road to Socialism

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Mothering Against the World: Momrades Against Motherhood

Mothering Against the World: Momrades Against Motherhood

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Prepared for the Worst: Disaster Nationalism

Prepared for the Worst: Disaster Nationalism

The overall psychological improvement was outpacing the material advantage. Richard Grunberg, A Social History of the Third Reich If individuals behaved like groups, they would be classified as mad. Hannah Segal I. Disaster nationalism is the kairos theory of the new...
Out of the Iron Lung:  A Miasma Theory of Coronavirus

Out of the Iron Lung: A Miasma Theory of Coronavirus

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