Rafael Lubner

I wrote about the recent Lygia Clark retrospective at Neue Nationalgalerie for @LAReviewofBooks lareviewofbooks.org/article/mute-t…

It's pragmatic and hopeful, or as he puts it, a music "whose illegibility becomes a tool with which to conceal and protect the undermining act itself."

UNAUTHORIZED USE PROHIBITED offers an example of what Marina Vishmidt calls 'infrastructural critique', as the subway's turnstiles and doors are construed as both constraint and canvas.

I wrote an introduction to Dominic Coles' wonderful UNAUTHORIZED USE PROHIBITED. The piece offers a sonic invitation to the observer: make the subway an instrument.

@RadSoftGroup *Mamdama

Zizek saying Zohran Mamdani is Black: "that guy...Black guy...Black Muslim" [32m18s]

we started a film magazine (narrowmargin.film). we’re launching our first issue, devoted to luc moullet & vittorio cottafavi, with this series at @AnthologyFilm

The book also includes one of the first English translations (by myself and @emiliomsauri) of the work of Paulo Eduardo Arantes, an influential Brazilian Marxist thinker, a scholar of Hegel, and a long-time interlocutor of Schwarz's writing 5/

Roberto Schwarz and World Literature is now out in hardback with Palgrave Macmillan, marking the first book-length engagement in English with Latin America's foremost dialectician and one of the all-time great Marxist literary critics 1/ link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

TurnerPrize 2024 winner Jasleen Kaur used her acceptance speech to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, demand an end to institutional complicity in Israels genocide & call for an arms embargo A special mention to the pathetic statement from the presenter at the end

🚨TODAY: both Government Departments which licence arms exports to Israel (Foreign Office & Trade Department) targeted by workers and trade unionists, blocking entrances to demand ARMS EMBARGO NOW. This is part of day of action by workers called for by @The_TUC & @PSCupdates ✊🏽

@tbird_news went in expecting this to be bad...and it was so much worse

@danhancox would you believe that he subscribes to the horseshoe theory of antisemitism too? theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Excited to have my book submitted to such rigorous liberal analysis as this by the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik 🫡 newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

said my piece in the @antipodeonline book reviews about a necessary, relevant attempt to kickstart the engine of state critique in the present. especially appreciate contributions from @kmunro_econ, @n_hold and jasmine chorley-schulz read here: antipodeonline.org/2024/11/14/mar…

My longread on ‘The Mountain’ - Palestinian journalist Wael Al Dahdouh, and the killings of Palestinian journalists and their families in Gaza. theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

This piece on Gillian Rose by @neepmail is simply magnificent. It is the best thing on Rose I have read in a long time, as multifaceted as its subject. Read it read it read it: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

From the archives: Authentically Plastic (@auth_plastic) "Technopolis: Blackness, Space and Mobility" A set of ‘Black Sonic Priorities’ are posed against a landscape pockmarked by racialization, carcerality and incipient fascism Read: bellonamag.com/technopolis-bl…

From the archives: Rafael Lubner (@stmayfair) 'Slip Infinity (On Elysia Crampton)' Elysia Crampton enjoins us to consider futures outside the stultifying, death-dealing worlds of coloniality Read: bellonamag.com/slip-infinity-…

the second in @sunik__kim's series on 20th century korean communism. here they sketch out the political-economic conditions under which massacres can be naturalised. it's an argument whose stakes are nothing less than "the capacity for historical memory itself"

helped edit another wonderful @sunik__kim essay, this one on a 1923 massacre of korean communists and migrant workers and how the role of violence in the logic of capital is muddied by bourgeois historiography (and therefore the necessity of militant history writing)

@sunik__kim This essay is a thematic sequel to "Joseon Bolshevik", @sunik__kim's essay from our the first issue of Bellona which explored the subtleties of revolutionary action, class composition and diaspora politics in pre-revolutionary Korea Read: bellonamag.com/joseon-bolshev…