Reading Karl Marx’s “Capital” Volume 1, in English has until now verged on the gruelling, more a vocation than a pleasure. For too long, the most ready-to-hand edition has been the Penguin one, all 1141 pages of it, first published in 1976. Sean Sheehan   Its small print gave it […]

Entities in the world, from sub-atomic particles upwards, lack completion and a fullness of being. People are no exception: self-alienation, the lack of self-identity, is an irreducible aspect of our existence that we should get used to.   Sean Sheehan    The moral, as Todd McGowan indicates in the subtitle […]

On the evening of August 31, a protest took place outside Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, calling on the theatre to cut its links with one of its chief sponsors, Barclays Bank.   Sean Sheehan   As part of its business, Barclays Bank is involved with companies that supply weapons […]

James Kelman’s most recent novel, “God’s teeth and other phenomena”, was published last year and reviewed in The Prisma. “Keep moving and no questions” is a collection of nearly 30 short stories by Kelman, also published in 2023, and together they constitute a fictional representation of what Jacques Rancière termed […]