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Alexander Billet is a writer, critic, and artist whose work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Salvage, Jacobin, Popula, Protean and elsewhere. He is the author of Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis, published in 2022 by 1968 Press.

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The following are my opening remarks introducing George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, presented on October 29 at Whammy! Analog Media in Los Angeles. It was sponsored by DSA-LA’s Hollywood Labor committee.

For readers in London, a reminder: I’m presenting my paper “From Modern Materialism to Popular Modernism: (re-)constructing a communist methodology of aesthetics” at the Historical Mat

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Changing Stages: A View of British and American Theatre in the Twentieth Century

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Alexander Billet rated a book liked it Paths to Paradise: On the Liberation from Work (English and French Edition) by André Gorz	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It is easy to feel the same way about this book as one does Inventing the Future. It makes many of the same assertions. Some of them hold up better than others. In the case of Paths to Paradise, however, what is out of date is very unmistakably out o ...more
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Alexander Billet rated a book it was amazing Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History" by Michael Löwy	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
"On the Concept of History" is one of Walter Benjamin's more inscrutable works. That's saying something. It's a very elliptical work, syncretizing Marxism and Jewish theology into a way of looking at history -- which isn't something we're even taught ...more
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"Generation Z: they cleaned up their own mess." For a novel written in 2006 -- well before anyone was even talking of Millennials, let alone Zoomers or Generation Z -- this is an intensely prescient line. By the time World War Z came out, zombies were ...more
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