The renewal of capitalism and democracy must be animated by a simple, but powerful, idea: that of citizenship. We cannot just think as consumers, workers, business owners, savers, or investors. We must think as citizens. Citizenship must have three a
The American Jason W. Moore and the Swedish Andreas Malm are part of what they call ‘radical academy,’ a group of Marxist writers who teach on both sides of the Atlantic. Capitalism in the Web of Life and Fossil Capital present complementary (and som
A smaller number of unbuilt projects haunt architectural discourse as provocations. They are like ghosts that never fully leave the conversation – fading from view sometimes only to be rediscovered by another generation of architects, and rediscovere
The deserted streets will fill again, and we will leave our screen-lit burrows blinking with relief. But the world will be different from how we imagined it in what we thought were normal times. This is not a temporary rupture in an otherwise stable
We have been living without enemies for some time now. The Cold War ended long ago. Of late even Islamic terrorism seems to have moved far away. Exactly ten years ago, in the essay The Burnout Society, I upheld the thesis that our times have invalida
One thing that’s always been true in New York,” says Dan Doctoroff, “is that if you build it, they will come.” He is referring to Hudson Yards, the $25 billion, 28-acre, mega-project that he had a critical hand in originating while he was deputy mayo
The 21st-century person is a city person. A person of ever lower cities under a chaotic, aggressive, ‘monstrous’ light. But at the same time, the industrial city of productive capitalism tends to give way to the city of leisure, the shopping city who
We must reckon with the fact that lowering global emissions in line with climate scientists’ urgent warnings demands changes of a truly daunting speed and scale. Meeting science-based targets will mean forcing some of the most profitable companies on
In ‘Specters of Marx’, Derrida upheld the political role of “a radical and interminable, infinite … critique … open to the absolute future of what is coming; that is, a necessary indeterminate, abstract, desert-like experience.” Whenever I read this
