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Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Andy Merrifield

This essay was first published in Antipode Foundation on 4th December 2015 I suspect I’m not the only one thrilled by the prospect of seeing Henri Lefebvre’s great philosophical tract, Métaphilosophie, from half-a-century ago, finally make it into English. Thanks to the … Continue reading →

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From the Underground to The Circle, and Back Again

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Andy Merrifield

Since my late teens, I’ve had a penchant for Russian literature. It started with Dostoevsky. It may have been because we were both clerks—Dostoevsky’s “underground man,” that is, he’d been a clerk, too, a petty clerk in the Russian civil … Continue reading →

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The World of Secret Affinities: Remembering Isaac Babel and Walter Benjamin

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Andy Merrifield

A version of this essay was previously published in August 2003 in The Brooklyn Rail 1940 was a terrible year for freethinking intellectuals. As Stalin and Hitler’s pincers tightened, a bullet and a morphine overdose saw off two of the twentieth … Continue reading →

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Urban Questions: Personal and Political Interrogations

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Andy Merrifield

In 1977, when Manuel Castells’ classic book, The Urban Question, was first put into English, I’d been a year out of high school, in Liverpool. It was five years after its original French publication, four years since an OPEC oil … Continue reading →

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