Mike Davis

May 30, 2024 | versobooks.com | Mike Davis |Owen Hatherley |Ruth Gilmore

This week on The Verso Podcast we’re looking at the unflinching work of Mike Davis - born in 1946 and sadly passing away in 2022. He began as an organiser who was radicalised by the civil rights movement in the US, only coming to writing much later in life after stints working as a truck driver and meat cutter - among other things.

Oct 6, 2023 | versobooks.com | Costas Lapavitsas |Ernesto Laclau |Mike Davis

Expectations for SYRIZA’s recent leadership contest were high. The early favourite among the party's radical-left to take the helm of the current Greek parliamentary opposition, a party that holds 47 out of the 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament, was Effie Achtsioglou, a 38-year-old Member of Parliament and former minister. She seemed poised to steer SYRIZA into a new era that would have signified a return to the party’s traditional ideological foundations.

Jun 27, 2023 | versobooks.com | Benjamin Kunkel |Lola Seaton |Mike Davis

Blog post "Since most of history’s giant trees have already been cut down, a new Ark will have to be constructed out of the materials that a desperate humanity finds at hand in insurgent communities, pirate technologies, bootlegged media, rebel science and forgotten utopias." Mike Davis27 June 2023 What follows is rather like the famous courtroom scene in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai (1947).In that noir allegory of proletarian virtue in the embrace of ruling-class decadence, Welles...

May 30, 2023 | versobooks.com | Mike Davis

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