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Those looking for an online copy of Nic Thoburn’s book after the sad demise of Endpage can read it at the Libertarian Communist Library, here. Actually, there’s a whole heap on the site: Sergio Bologna, Mario Tronti, whole books by Theodor Adorno, Jacques Derrida and much much more. Including Mario Mieli’s classic 1977 piece, “Towards a Gay Communism” - very wrong at times but also, by turns, very sharp and laugh out loud funny.

Oh, and Thiago has finally put up his piece on interest rate subjectivity - definitely worth a read.

On MetaMute, “Make Representation History” - on the protests around the G8, by Hari Kunzru, ELAM and Mute.

And an interesting piece by John Barker on the intellectual warriors of the anglosphere, “Armchair Spartans and The Spectre of Decadence”. It covers a lot of ground, and all worth reading, but the discussion of wars-by-proxy fought by ‘green card soldiers’ is particularly interesting:

The recruitment of mercenary soldiers has traditionally been seen as an absolute indicator of decadence, the decline of classical Athens for example, or the Carthaginians cited by Steinbeck. The armchair Spartans are all big fans of Israel (Sparta in a sea of chaos, of dangerous and inferior peoples), of its militarism and its citizen army. The USA has had to do it differently, partly perhaps because they have chosen to imprison so many young Afro-Americans rather than recruit them. Instead they have turned on the one hand to a whole host of private military companies