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[Henk Vreekamp]

Politieke lectuur voor democraten?
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New Left Review # 74



From: Serguei A. Oushakine <oushakin at Princeton.EDU>

http://newleftreview.org/

NLR 74 will be mailed out on 27 April 2012

CONTENTS

Tony Wood: Collapse as Crucible

While Russia’s anti-Putin demonstrations have prompted talk of a civic 
awakening—led by a flat-pack middle class—the country’s overall social 
landscape remains largely unmapped. Tony Wood surveys its shifting 
structures since the Soviet collapse, and the consequences of marketization’s 
advance through the USSR’s ruins.

Nancy Fraser: On Justice

Conceptions of justice drawn from Plato to Rawls, explored through analysis 
of a powerful novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Who counts as a subject, and what 
strategies could enable those debarred from the sphere of justice to 
overturn their status?

T. J. Clark: For a Left With No Future

An epistle to capitalism’s immobilized opponents from the author of Farewell 
to an Idea. Drawing on sources from Bruegel to Nietzsche, Hazlitt to 
Benjamin, T. J. Clark supplies notes for a rethinking of left politics that 
would recognize the impasses of the present and the horrific legacies of the 
past, while abandoning the mirages of futurity.

Susan Watkins: Presentism?

Responding to Clark, Susan Watkins questions the adequacy of a perspective 
built upon man’s propensity for violence, and defends a historicized 
politics of social transformation against the cramped horizon of the 
present.

Ying Qian: Power in the Frame

Origins and mutations of the PRC’s independent documentary movement. From 
vanguard to grass roots, and from passive observation of a country in flux 
to a politicized, activist cinema, turning its lens onto the workings of 
power.

Julian Stallabrass: Digital Partisans

A tonic for cyber-babble from the pages of Mute magazine, assessing the real 
impact of new technology on politics and cultural life. Can this valuable 
source of critique survive in a cold recessionary landscape?

BOOK REVIEWS

Robert O Paxton on Dylan Riley, The Civic Foundations of Fascism. Civil 
society revealed as handmaiden of fascist rule in Italy, Spain and Romania.

Jacob Collins on Marcel Gauchet, L’avènement de la démocratie, t III. Europe’s 
age of catastrophe as struggle between religious and secular political 
logics, in the vision of a sotto voce liberal.

Marco D’Eramo on Sergio Luzzatto, Padre Pio. A scholarly view of Italy’s 
most famous cleric and the cult he inspired.