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  • Herbarium

    Herbarium

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    Sander Pleij

    Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium Claudia Horn (OR Books, 2026) Rosa Luxemburg was a theorist, politician and revolutionary murdered in Berlin on 15 January 1919, together with her compatriot Karl Liebknecht. She wrote about big words: Kapital, Krise, Sozialdemokratie, Revolution. Years ago, this impatient reader ran aground on her dense essays. But the universe of Rosa Luxemburg has now…

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  • The Spectacle of AI taking over the world

    The Spectacle of AI taking over the world

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    RogueESR

    A group of French scientists sees OpenAI unjustly claiming it has solved the mathematical Navier-Stokes problem and sounds the alarm. A handful of tech moguls are establishing a private monopoly over cognition and knowledge.

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  • Project a black planet: the art and culture of pan-Africa

    Project a black planet: the art and culture of pan-Africa

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    Fernanda Eberstadt

    Enigmatic, mischievous, troubling, her work comprises rich, densely scrabbled Old Master-like oil portraits of a single figure, or a small group. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, born in London in 1977, is one of the best British artists alive today.

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  • OnlyFascism

    OnlyFascism

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    Peter Frederick Matthews

    The libidinal thrill in fascism: on the German far-right’s sexy phantoms.

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