The precarious state of poetry these days mirrors the conditions of all who labor in the "social factory"

In Lars Iyer’s comic non-literature, inept philosophers attempt non-thinking

Albert Cossery’s 1955 novel shows how beggars can be choosers — and revolutionaries

Beyond Cossery's stylish ironies, we glimpse a country seething in poverty and malfeasance and, like the concrete buildings his narratives are usually set in, perpetually on the verge of collapse. In fact, it is seems as if only the totality of this corruption is keeping the country together, an adhesive of turpitude permeating every social

Hipstamatic, Instagram, and the class revolt of photographic boredom.

Steve McQueen's Shame is a lament for a culture that can't discover a legitimate limit to egoism

The politics of middle class populism produce the peculiar social focus of both Occupy Wall Street and the #J14 housing protests in Israel.

The collection Work may be a great wonder of a thing, but one’s wondering begins with the odd sense of having been served a dish of leftovers.