THE MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY: A PRECIOUS UNIVERSAL RESOURCE
Paul Halas interviews Merian Jump, Director of the Marx Memorial Library
BOOK LAUNCH
EDITORIAL
RUMOURS OF THE DEATH OF EUROPE HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED
MEETING ALEX GORDON
Interview with Phil Hall and Paul Halas.
R E L I G I O N / P HI L O S O P H Y
THE GNOSTIC BLUEPRINT
Phil Hall
FOOD
I SMELL THEREFORE I AM
Arun Kapil
S C I E N C E F I C T I O N
GOODLY CREATURES
J. W. Wood
S C I E N C E S P E C U L A T I O N
3I ATLAS: ALONG COMES A BLACK SWAN
Phil Hall
F I L M
LONE WOLVERINE
Norman B. Schwartz
PALESTINE
THE SADEAN MORAL CALCULUS
Richard Steinhardt
THE BOOKSHOP
Amal Chatterjee
PERFORMANCE POETRY
DUMAH
Yogesh Patel
COMMENT
UNQUESTIONING SCIENTISTS & SERVILE INTELLECTUALS
Richard Steinhardt
ISABEL DEL RIO: FOUR POEMS
POETRY
LO SOCIAL ES HUMANO / THE SOCIAL IS HUMAN
Ulises Paniagua
ARS NOTORIA MAGAZINE
October Issue
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THE SLIDE TOWARDS TYRANNY
Oswald Mosley, leader of the British fascists, in Birmingham with working class supporters The left has got to get its act together by PAUL HALAS As if we needed it, the recent “Unite the Kingdom” march was a deeply alarming wake-up call for anyone opposed to fascism. Labour MP Clive Lewes attempted to pour…
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INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AS A WEAPON OF IMPERIALISM
Baile de los Viejitos in Morelia, photo Genaro Servín by RICHARD STEINHARDT The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) supports land rights, self-determination, autonomy, self-government, the protection of indigenous culture and intellectual property and the control of their own cultural heritage by indigenous people. Like the ILO statement, however, it…
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Western Intelligence & the Worship of Chaos
Ruins of Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip, destroyed by Israeli bombardments, photo Jaber Jehad Badwan By Richard Steinhardt The story of Bletchley Park’s recruitment is indicative. They didn’t use a Mensa test. Instead, they placed an extremely cryptic crossword puzzle in the newspaper and invited in the people who had completed it correctly…
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INTERVIEW WITH THE POET CARLOS KATAN
Carlos Katan 5th International Colloquium on Poetry and Philosophy —with ULISES PANIAGUA Hello, good day. Let’s begin this interview. The first thing I want to ask is: Do you have a defined concept of what poetry is? Have you managed to arrive at your own definition through reading and writing it? Carlos: Sometimes, the…
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Polish up your alien / techniques of observation, / while the city burns.’
Nissim Ezekiel On the birth centenary of Nissim Ezekiel and his impact on Indian poetry in English by SUDEEP SEN 1. I want to talk about Nissim Ezekiel, purely from a practising Indian poet’s point of view, and not as an academic or literary historian. I first met Nissim Ezekiel on the page through…
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INTERROGATING THE EVIDENCE: CHASING THE DARK BY BEN MACHELL
Tony Cornell, photo Cornell Review by JON ELSBY Chasing the Dark bears the intriguing subtitle ‘Encounters with the Supernatural’. For many people, the supernatural is associated with religion. It is inextricably bound up with belief in the existence and operative agency of God, angels, and demons. But there is another, broader, but also vaguer,…
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ARS NOTORIA EDITORIAL FOR OCTOBER
Trump as Judge Holden in Blood Meridien This October edition of Ars Notoria might very well be renamed Ars Notoria Futurum in the spirit of science fiction. All our dystopian futures seem to be arriving at once. Orwell’s world of disinformation and surveillance is here. The dystopian worlds of Philip K. Dick, the serried…
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COOKING WITH TIME
Gyan Kapil: ‘Dad’s genius was knowing instinctively where to save time without losing flavour.‘, photo Arun Kapil Fast or slow, sacred or street, flavour keeps its own clock by ARUN KAPIL Time is the quietest ingredient in the kitchen. It doesn’t shout like chilli, doesn’t perfume the room like saffron. It sits there, invisible,…
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12. HE THINKS HE’S BOGIE
Still from Casablanca with Ingrid Bergmann and Humphry Bogart, photo Jean Beaufort Public Domain by NORMAN B. SCHWARTZ Humphrey DeForest Bogart (1899–1957) shared much in common with his co-star Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen. Both actors grew up in comfortable upper middle-class Episcopalian households with fathers who were society doctors and mothers who…
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