The Notes Taken

There is this ridiculous chorus about how the Occupy Wall Street movement needs to define itself. For the sake of argument I'll define i...

The Los Angeles Review of Books has published a review essay by Joshua Clover, entitled "Autumn of Empire," which considers the ...

I am currently reading Michael Perelman's The Invention of Capitalism ( Duke University Press , 2000). One of his central theses is tha...

The Left in the US must blame itself for its weakness and inability to draw in lager numbers of working-class Americans into its fold. Walte...

This week a story about a man robbing a bank for one dollar became widely circulated. KTLA News reports : A reportedly unemployed, uninsure...

We've all, I know, been waiting for the publication of Fredric Jameson's Representing Capital . Though I have not yet acquired a cop...

The US State Department's website explains the background and role of NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization). It states: Formed in 194...

Recently I have been re-reading Immanuel Wallertein's "World-Systems Analysis (2004)." He writes: Note the hyphen in world-sy...

Capitalist Realism (Zero Books, 2009 ) opens with the observation attributed to both Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Zizek that it is easier to ...

Hot on the heels of their animated David Harvey talk on capitalism, the RSA has animated a recent talk by Slavoj Zizek. They do quite a job ...

It is about time that the great cultural critic Slavoj Zizek make an analysis of his own rising popularity. It seems his role as a popular t...

The majority of the world lives in poverty. Parts of the world enjoy wealth that millions will never come close to experiencing. This dispar...

Some immigrant rights activists in the US hold up signs that read "No Human is Illegal." The problem is that a human can be illega...

There is an increase in the activities and influence of India's Maoists known as Naxalites. The name Naxalite derives from the name of t...

Walter Benjamin argues, in an early fragment entitled “Capitalism as Religion” (dated 1921), that capitalism serves a religious function ins...