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Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) on Frederick Wiseman: 'He liked to cultivate cacophony: classrooms and playgrounds as echo chambers; hospitals and missile silos as makeshift soundstages; prisons and city halls as towers of babble.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Richard Seymour (@leninology) on responses to the Iran war: 'What of the pundit class? The vacuity of the casus belli and lack of any coalition-building or jurisprudential window-dressing alarmed outlets that had been reliably pugnacious over Iraq and, more recently, Ukraine.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Wrote this on the collapse of the liberal belligerati: "They may once, two decades ago, have been useful ... but no more. The right no longer caters to, nor needs, its liberal outriders. They hang on out of habit." newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Wrote about Frederick Wiseman for @NewLeftReview newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

In NLR 157, Tony Wood reads the correspondence of four titans of the Latin American novel. ‘The Boom’s repurposing of the techniques of modernism enabled it to give literary expression to the historical vertigo of Latin America’s experience of modernization’. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/a…

Rohana Kuddus on Indonesia’s answer to Trump in NLR 157: ‘Prabowo’s first year does not herald a new regime so much as bring out into the open the long counter-Reformasi drift.’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/a…

Ma Jiajia on interpreting the Japanese elections: 'Should the hopes Takaichi has stirred prove unfounded, a sharp correction cannot be ruled out.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

In the latest @NewLeftReview: With Iran under fire, leading historian Ervand Abrahamian provides a critical anatomy of the power structures of the Islamic Republic and a scathing denunciation of the long-incubated American-Israeli assault. versobooks.com/blogs/news/new…

Xi Ruochen on the history of Sinosphere publishing in NLR 157: ‘How did post-colonial Hong Kong become the platform for an alternative cultural ecology, composed of offshore publishers, critical scholars and a de-territorialized reading public?’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/a…

Habermas is dead. I remember his clash with Rudi Dutschke at Berlin Vietnam Congress in February 1968. Condolences to his daughter Judith who worked at Verso for a while. Below a small extract from Perry Anderson's essay on the military philosophers in New Left Review: "Habermas grew up in a small Rhenish town under Hitler. His father joined the Nazi party in 1933, and Habermas himself briefly took part in defensive work with the Hitlerjugend at the end of the war. After discovering the realities of the Third Reich and breaking with Heidegger, who had been his first major influence, Habermas became the major philosophical descendant of the Frankfurt School, absorbing its distinctive transformations of Marx, and then in turn criticizing these in the light of American pragmatism and systems theory. Intellectually heir to the totalizing ambitions of German idealism, scarcely any major philosophical tradition has fallen outside the range of his interests, in which sociology—classical and contemporary—has also occupied a central place. As a political thinker, the pattern of Habermas’s writing reverses that of Rawls, whom he has criticized for his inappropriately substantive intentions. His own political theory is purely procedural, abstaining from any programmatic proposals. On the other hand, Habermas has never hesitated to intervene politically on topical issues, adopting public positions on leading disputes of the day in Germany, as a citizen of the left. His Kleine politische Schriften now run to nine volumes, rivalling the number of Sartre’s Situations. At the same time, he has never been involved in any political organization, keeping his distance from spd and Greens alike." newleftreview.org/issues/ii31/ar…

Jürgen Habermas, interviewed by Perry Anderson and Peter Dews in NLR I/151, May–June 1985: 'the Federal Republic has come so close to being the 51st State of the Union that the only thing we still don’t have is the right to vote'. newleftreview.org/issues/i151/ar…

In NLR 157: the New Dollar Imperialism. Costas Lapavitsas (@C_Lapavitsas) on the primacy of the dollar in shaping the world economy. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/a…

In interview with @NewLeftReview @tparsi said that US assumption that Iranian fear war more than surrender was a mistake. Instead, they fear surrender more than they fear war. They believe they can survive losing the war. They cannot survive surrender. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

thoughts on the BBC from an anonymous "senior figure within Iran’s state media" speaking to the NLR: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

James Wham (@James_Wham) on Kleber Mendonça Filho's 'The Secret Agent': 'These stories started as a joke, of course, a bit of mischief, but the perna cabeluda soon became a metonym for unacknowledged state violence – a way of speaking the unsaid.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

If I were an anonymous 'senior figure within Iran's state media' giving an interview to the NLR, I'd be name-dropping Baudrillard

Interesting perspective from a senior official in Iran's state media.

An interview with Trita Parsi (@tparsi): 'This was one of the main mistakes on the American side. They believed that the Iranians feared war more than surrender. In reality, they fear surrender far more than they fear war.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

"Donning yourself with an Israeli flag while demonstrating for freedom in Iran is a travesty: this a flag that today represents a genocidal state led by war criminals" Ilan Pappé for @VersoBooks versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…