Simon Wortham is Professor of Critical Humanities at Kingston University London. His recent books include Resistance and Psychoanalysis: Impossible Divisions (2017), Hope: The Politics of Optimism (2019), Reading Robert Walser: Criticism, Creativity, Correspondence (2025), and Robert Walser and the Politics of Neglect (2025).
Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history, is not responsible for triggering the decline of the American empire, but he is responsible for its fatal denouement.
The Lee Administration leaked the possibility of deploying Korean forces to the Strait of Hormuz on 03 September. The backlash was immediate from Korean civil society that opposes any type of support for Trump’s war of aggression. Furthermore, recent polls
Last week, on 4th September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to
The enlargement of BRICS presents Africa with a wider field of economic possibilities by bringing the continent into closer relationship with some of the
1. Manic “Change Round” In Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” the melancholic is in want of an object, never knowing exactly what they may have lost. Melancholy transforms the object-loss of mourning into
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