Jessica Whyte Adania Shibli, Minor Detail. Trans. Elisabeth Jaquette. (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020) Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a novel made of two stories of violence and domination, separated by more than six decades. In the first, set during the...
Konštantín Bauer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CLT recently featured a translation of E.B. Pashukanis’ 1929 article “The Right of Asylum and the Practice of Bourgeois Governments,” originally published in the journal MOPR under the auspices of the...
Several weeks ago, UK courts dealt a blow to the legal system in two cases. Both involve the group “Palestine Action”, whose aim is to end global complicity in the genocide in Gaza. The first case involves its proscription as a terrorist...
Strategic optimism as a concept for imagining and transforming justice, politics and resistance It is rare to attend a conference in honour of an author, in the presence of the said author. In all my 25 years of academic experience in both Brazilian, European and UK...
Maria Aristodemou Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press, 2024) The narrator dog of one of Kafka’s short stories, “Investigations of a Dog”, declares that “all knowledge, all questions and all answers are contained...
The first lesson Costas Douzinas gave me was silence. Not deliberately, I assume. But that is where the story began. It took me the better part of a career inside the state to understand what that silence had been teaching me. At the time, I believed I had found the...
