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At long last, The Prophet is back. Isaac Deutscher's classic three-part biography of Leon Trotsky is available again in both the US and UK. To celebrate, we've made all of Isaac Deutscher's books 30% off until Tuesday, May 26th. versobooks.com/blogs/news/the…

The capacity to build a general strike does not lie with Corbyn or Sultana or Polanski, it lies with us. youtu.be/68t7lCMa7h0?si…

A small village in Wales came to be known as Little Moscow because of how large the Communist Party was there. How can we understand the rise of the far right in this community today? youtu.be/68t7lCMa7h0?si…

Join the Verso Book Club to take part in our monthly reading group, a space where we dig into the critical, though often messy, work of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text. versobooks.com/blogs/news/the…

"Class is not static, it is in constant movement." Callum Cant and Matthew Lee on how working class knowledge production is essential for building working class movements. youtu.be/68t7lCMa7h0?si…

Join us for the launch of @trevorpaglen’s book: How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI 📅 Saturday May 23rd, 7pm 📍EARTH, 49 Orchard st, NY with special guests @zhitzig and Josh Kline. Paglen’s new book asks what images become when they no longer simply represent the world, but actively watch, classify, predict, and shape it. Published by @VersoBooks

Join Henry Snow this weekend for a discussion on how ideas of control perfected on the factory floor have expanded to dictate our personal lives. versobooks.com/blogs/news/the…

weekend read

What is alive and what dead in neoliberalism? Nathan Sperber undertakes a multi-dimensional analysis in the @NewLeftReview! versobooks.com/blogs/news/new…

"The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy" describes the networks of right-wing activists that began to rely on the conspiracy more and more. It was obvious nonsense, but that didn’t matter. It provided a kind of Grand Unified Theory of conservative grievance. dissentmagazine.org/article/cultur…

In the chaos that characterises life in contemporary Britain, new political formations can emerge very quickly. Callum Cant and Matthew Lee on the route to a general strike today. youtu.be/68t7lCMa7h0?si…

All eyes on Cuba

This is an interesting review. Shout out to A.J.A. Woods, too dissentmagazine.org/article/cultur…

“The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy” by @adubwoods is a spry genealogy of our strange reality, which traces the conspiracy from Lyndon LaRouche through the New Right to the Tea Party. dissentmagazine.org/article/cultur…

“​​The most compelling line of inquiry concerns the overlaps between the development of large language models and the long history of American psyops and related activities, sinister or mad.”—Brian Dillon on “How to See Like a Machine” by Trevor Paglen 4columns.org/dillon-brian/h…

Big recommend

“The political task of today is building a level of working class self organisation where people feel confident enough that they can change the way their workplace is ran.” youtu.be/68t7lCMa7h0?si…

TODAY → Artist talk → @trevorpaglen at the Tate Modern Museum! Artist Trevor Paglen brings artists’ voices into the urgent debate around image-making today and where artists might take AI next. This event marks the launch of his new book, How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI. In anticipation of our forthcoming exhibition of Julio Le Parc, the conversation will reflect on perception: how we see, how images shape us, and how vision itself is constructed. This traces a line from Le Parc’s investigations of light and participation to today’s algorithmic gaze. Moderated by Manisha Ganguly, the talk will be followed by a book signing. ✍️👀

@MacDonaldAshley The one volume edition will be back in print soon and will be available in Canada

@VersoBooks 5 out of 6 are unavailable in Canada 🤦🏻‍♂️

At long last, The Prophet is back. Isaac Deutscher's classic three-part biography of Leon Trotsky is available again in both the US and UK. To celebrate, we've made all of Isaac Deutscher's books 30% off until Tuesday, May 26th. versobooks.com/blogs/news/the…