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* In NLR 103 * As the Obama presidency gives way to the age of Trump, NLR editors discuss the causes of last November’s shock result, the prospects for a Trump presidency, and the record of his sanctified predecessor. <https://newleftreview.org/II/103/mike-davis-election-2016?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR103> Göran Therborn assesses the path-breaking research of Branko Milanovic on world income trends since the fall of communism. <https://newleftreview.org/II/103/goran-therborn-dynamics-of-inequality?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR103> Hito Steyerl asks if algorithms and data-farming have short-circuited relations between computers, games and the economy, to create a world of involuntary play. Can critical art practice can suggest a way to turn the tables? <https://newleftreview.org/II/103/hito-steyerl-on-games?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR103> Hailed for bucking the trend of electoral collapse for the neoliberal centre-left, Matteo Renzi’s PD suffered an ignominous defeat in the December 2016 referendum. Cinzia Arruzza explains why. <https://newleftreview.org/II/103/cinzia-arruzza-italy-s-refusal?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR103> Virtues of the book in an age of mass media: Carlos Spoerhase contrasts the views of Mallarmé, Valéry, El Lissitsky and Benjamin. <https://newleftreview.org/II/103/carlos-spoerhase-beyond-the-book?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR103> Book Reviews Marco D’Eramo on Jan-Werner Müller, What Is Populism?. German contribution to a burgeoning genre on opponents of the liberal order. <https://newleftreview.org/II/103/marco-d-eramo-they-the-people?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR103> Peter Rose on Josiah Ober, Rise and Fall of Classical Greece. Athenian culture attributed to the ‘democracy and growth package’ of the polis. <https://newleftreview.org/II/103/peter-rose-secrets-of-the-ancients?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR103> Jeffery Webber on Maristella Svampa, Debates Latinoamericanos. Cartography of the continent’s social thought. <https://newleftreview.org/II/103/jeffery-webber-social-theory-from-the-south?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR103> NLR 103 will be mailed out to subscribers on 17 March. 6 Meard St, London W1F 0EG, +44 20 7734 8830, [email protected], newleftreview.org Click here to unsubscribe or change your email preferences: https://newleftreview.org/customer/email_options?customer_id=34609&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR102&utm_content=unsubscribe
