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Nov 14, 2024 | 
tribunemag.co.uk | Anton Jäger
The year 2010 was a good one for Michel Houellebecq. As food riots broke out across North Africa and spread into southern Europe in November, his novel The Map and the Territory won the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious of all French literary prizes. In the following months, his satire of the contemporary art world […] The year 2010 was a good one for Michel Houellebecq.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thesgnl.com | Anton Jäger |Adam Tooze |Gustav Jönsson
Donald Trump is once again the president-elect of the United States, having won not only the electoral college—America’s state-based system for choosing the president—but the popular vote, resoundingly.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
newleftreview.org | Anton Jäger
Speeding through reagan’s America for a Tocquevillian travelogue on ‘the only remaining primitive society on earth’, Jean Baudrillard noted a paradox about us power in the late 1980s.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
newleftreview.org | Anton Jäger
Belgium is not a country prone to breaking world records. This summer, the nation’s athletes took home a sum-total of ten Olympic medals, while its most striking star performance in the last decade has been in a wholly different area – the time taken to form a government. After the 2009 elections, the country was left without a federal cabinet for 541 days, thanks to a dispute over territorial language rights between the parties of Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Anton Jäger
2010 was a good year for Michel Houellebecq. As food riots broke out across North Africa and spread into Southern Europe in November, his novel The Map and the Territory won the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious of all French literary prizes. In the following months, his satire of the contemporary art world would go […]
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
links.org.au | Anton Jäger
First published at Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. The ascent of the far right has become a commanding fact of European political life in the past four decades. Since 1989, far-right parties have increased their median vote share by almost 20 percent, while the previous decade has seen them graduate into plausible contenders for government from Poland to France.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
newleftreview.org | Anton Jäger
Stuck in American exile in 1941, Karl Korsch surveyed the success of the blitzkrieg on Greece and tried, heroically, to offer a socialist interpretation. The German offensive, he wrote in a letter to Bertolt Brecht, expressed ‘frustrated left-wing energy’ and a displaced desire for workers’ control. Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt summarized Korsch’s position as follows:. . .
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Anton Jäger
He could have been anywhere. Delivering a speech to a group of Belgian businessmen this year, Barack Obama warned about the dangers of artificial intelligence, climate change and geopolitical conflict. More local matters were close at hand: Belgium was entering an election year, and its capital, Brussels, home to some of Europe's most hallowed institutions, had weathered a year of geopolitical shocks. Yet Mr. Obama wouldn't be drawn into questions about national politics.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
elsaltodiario.com | Anton Jäger
We can't find the internet Attempting to reconnect Something went wrong! Hang in there while we get back on track Mientras la erosión de la vida cívica organizada avanza a buen ritmo, la esfera pública occidental está cada vez más sujeta a instancias espasmódicas de agitación y controversia. Dos hombres conversan ataviados con atuendos paramilitares raídos, mientras sus gorras MAGA flotan sobre la marea arremolinada de banderas y megáfonos.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
newleftreview.org | Anton Jäger
Two men flank each other in shabby paramilitary attire, their MAGA caps hovering above the swirling tide of flags and megaphones. ‘We can take that place!’, exclaims the first. ‘And then do what?’, his companion asks. ‘Heads on pikes!’ Three years later, these rocambolesque scenes from the Capitol riot on January 6th – now firmly encrusted on liberalism’s political unconscious – have become a revealing historical hieroglyph.
