Tag: China Mieville

Revolutionary Rupture: A review of China Miéville’s A Spectre, Haunting

Revolutionary Rupture: A review of China Miéville's A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto Anna McFarlane Under Review:A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto. China Miéville. Haymarket Books, November 2022. China Miéville is the most important UK author of the early twenty-first century; his Bas Lag fantasy trilogy brought a new kind of socially-conscious weird … Continue reading Revolutionary Rupture: A review of China Miéville’s A Spectre, Haunting

Golem of Memory: Revolutionary Interruptions, Railway Imaginaries, and China Miéville’s Bas Lag

Golem of Memory: Revolutionary Interruptions, Railway Imaginaries, and China Miéville’s Bas Lag Nandini Ramachandran I. Trains of Thought The railroad has been an icon of orderly progress for two centuries. Tracking commentary on it is like reading a greatest hits album put out by the Patriarchs of Social Theory—Marx, Weber, Foucault, Latour—for all of whom … Continue reading Golem of Memory: Revolutionary Interruptions, Railway Imaginaries, and China Miéville’s Bas Lag