Issue seven release party for Hard Crackers this weekend
John Garvey reminded me that Hard Crackers is releasing its seventh issue this weekend at Freddy’s Bar in Brooklyn. So if you’re in town, feel free to stop by and grab a drink to celebrate. You can...
View ArticleNoel Ignatiev, 1940-2019
Yesterday I learned that my friend and comrade Noel Ignatiev passed away. He’d been in poor health for some time, diagnosed with a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer that made it difficult for him to...
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Remembering Rosa Luxemburg, 150 years after her birth
The great Polish Marxist and revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was born 150 years ago today. In honor of her life and legacy, I thought I’d post some of her works and texts about her along with an...
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Lazar Khidekel’s aerial city of the future (1925-1932)
. I’ve posted about Lazar Khidekel before. A few years ago, I met some of his descendants who live here in New York. Regina Khidekel, his daughter-in-law, has written some very interesting articles...
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Alan Milchman, 1940-2021
. Was sad to learn that Alan Milchman, better known in ultraleft circles as Mac Intosh of Internationalist Perspective, passed away on Friday (I was told by someone close to him that it was okay to...
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Early Soviet avant-garde journal of Contemporary Architecture, 1926-1930
I’ve been meaning to post these for a while, but have been very busy with work and whatnot. The archivists who run the outstanding Russian website Techne have compiled some high-resolution PDFs of the...
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Grigory Yudin on the antiwar protests in Russia
Image: Vasily Vereshchagin, The Apotheosis of War (1871) My friend Maya Vinokour translated this piece and sent it to me the night before it went up for publication. It’s an interesting and insightful...
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Public discussion on “War and Capitalist Crisis” in NYC
In New York next week there will be a public discussion, the event description of which you can read below, on the conflict in Ukraine. This is part of a broader effort to gather contributions for an...
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Yuri Rozhkov’s photomontages for the Mayakovsky poem “To the Workers of...
In 1924, the self-taught artist Iurii Nikolaevich Rozhkov created a series of photomontages inspired by Vladimir Maiakovskii’s poem “To the Workers of Kursk” and the geological discovery of the...
View ArticleSpecial issue of Insurgent Notes on the conflict in Ukraine
The latest issue of Insurgent Notes: Journal of Communist Theory and Practice, on the conflict in Ukraine, is out. I helped edit it, and hope that it serves to prompt further discussion and debate...
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Jean-Louis Cohen, 1949-2023
. I am shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden passing of the architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen. Cohen was a giant in his field, perhaps the last capable of producing a truly comprehensive...
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Interview with Gazete Duvar
Recently I was contacted by Kavel Alpaslan of the paper Gazete Duvar, an independent outlet from Turkey founded in 2016. He was interested in interviewing me about my blog, Soviet architecture, and...
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Preliminary materials for a theory of the Young-Hegelian E-Girl
So I went with some friends to the Hegelian e-girls’ VIP “symposium” last Saturday, August 3. It was held in the backdoor patio space of a Persian restaurant in Crown Heights, where they sometimes hold...
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Hegel and Stalinism: The murder of Jan Sten
Iosef Stalin fancied himself a great theorist of proletarian struggle. There was just one problem: he was extremely mediocre when it came to theoretical matters. Once, while he was attempting to...
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Discussion in NYC about the “Contours of the World Commune”
New York friends! I’m reposting below a notice from the Ridgewood-based Woodbine collective. Readers of this blog will likely remember a couple events I’ve organized there in the past: a talk on class...
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