Archive of Nikhil Pal Singh

In the second part of their series on the global conjuncture, Nikhil Pal Singh and Joshua Clover survey our present economic and ecological impasse, and search through the ruins for the green shoots of solidarity and for the "openings that are necessarily present when things fall apart."

Since the beginning of the pandemic, and the string of extraordinary and increasingly everyday global events that have come along with it, many have diagnosed the end of neoliberalism and the birth pangs of something new rising in its stead. In the first of a two part series, Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh map the present conjuncture and search for answers in the rubble of global capitalism.

How do we think through the relation between race and class in capitalism? Responding to the recent intervention of Adolph Reed, Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh argue that, following Stuart Hall, race is the modality in which class is lived and that only by capturing the fundamental social experience of the unity of race and class can we avoid the pitfalls of separating them analytically and falling into "bothandism".