"It is hard not to be intimidated by New Left Review. At times, the journal can seem like an elaborate contrivance for making us feel inadequate."
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Stefan Collini on New Left Review at 50 via @aldaily
very often, i feel that large swathes of useful intellectual labor come filled to the knee with contrivance…
give me a reason, don’t give me gestures.. or names.
“What other publication would take out a full-page advertisement in a national newspaper announcing its “quinquagenary issue”? NLR has been accused of many things, but never of populist dumbing-down.”
…or just stfu. (see also pikachu & deleuze via @naxos)
(also also, see @bradfidler’s now deleted post on spivak’s emancipatory jargon. it’s good, trust me.)
