Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] apparent to those outside the upper echelons of the Russian state. Or it could be that Putin has simply read Dugin’s published output. In any case, the murder of Darya Dugina suggested immediately to many observers that Dugin himself had been the real target. Why would anyone want to murder a philosopher? The presumption […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] he argues. When it comes to describing military offensives, the government give us ‘remotely piloted air systems’, ‘precision weapons’ and ‘collateral damage’ rather than bombdropping drones that murder civilians. Conversely, alongside these euphemisms for hiding state violence, there are also euphemisms for stripping away the rights of individuals. Since 9/11 a world has been […]