My somewhat belated reflections on Inventing Anna (2022) were published last week on Tom Pazderka’s substack A Secret Plot. The article in part seeks to question what it is about contemporary con artists and hustlers that makes them historically distinct (assuming they are indeed historically distinct) from the mythic snake oil salesman that haunts theContinue reading “Cracking Capitalism: Myth and Labour in Inventing Anna”
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Organising the Present – Part Two
Reflections on Political Formalism in Hwang Sok-yong’s At Dusk and Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out In the Name of Conrad For Kim Minwoo, the way out of the infinite reconstitution of evermore intensive capitalist social relations is death: one he embarks on with others, who end their worlds together, a faint if unsettling vision ofContinue reading “Organising the Present – Part Two”
Thomas Travers 