From one Arab Spring to another

Gilbert Achcar ~ RP 2.07 (Spring 2020), pp. 005–008 ~ Article

The crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism has been unfolding spectacularly under our eyes in recent months, provoking ever greater social upheavals in an ever greater number of places. 1 Events in the Arab region fit into this general global crisis, to be sure, but there is also something specific about the region. There, […]

Beyond failure and success: Revolutions and the politics of endurance

Walid el Houri ~ RP 2.02 (June 2018), pp. 72–78 ~ Article

I tell it here as a tale of anticapitalist, queer struggle. I tell it also as a narrative about anticolonial struggle, the refusal of legibility, and an art of unbecoming. This is a story without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the […]