Sustained inquiry

Series

Themes that need more than a single article: close reading, institutions, political affects and regional social research.

active series

Affects, Desire, and Politics

Careful introductions to Spinoza, Deleuze and Guattari on collective capacity, desire and political composition, grounded in texts rather than catchphrases.

Spinoza, Deleuze and Guattari

planned series

Bengal: Work, City, Culture

A planned research series on labour, urban change and cultural life in Bengal. Pieces will appear only after evidence, rights and local context receive editorial review.

Regional social research

active series

Hegemony & Everyday Life

Essays on consent, common sense, institutions and the practical work through which political leadership becomes durable—or begins to fracture.

Gramsci

active series

Reading Capital

Slow, accessible readings of Marx’s critique of political economy, attentive to argument, historical limits and contemporary questions without turning a difficult text into slogans.

Marx and close reading