Articles by Régis Debray

• Decline of the West?
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR 80, March-April 2013, pp. 29-44
  Subjects: United States , Europe , International Relations
  

  Mired in recession at home, pledged to perpetual warfare on the periphery—in what shape is the global sheriff? Régis Debray draws up a balance sheet of its vital symptoms.

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• Socialism: A Life-Cycle
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR 46, July-August 2007, pp. 5-28
  Subjects: Media , Social Theory
  

  The ecosystem of socialism, seen through the material forms in which its principles were transmitted—books, newspapers, manifestos—and the parties, movements, schools and men who were its bearers. From Babeuf to Marx to Mao, the passage of printed ideas, and their inundation by images in the age of the spectacle.

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• A Pope for All Channels
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR 33, May-June 2005, pp. 54-55
  Subjects: Media , Religion
  

  John Paul II as actor-pope, and doctrine as screenplay—thoughts on the media’s sacralization of one of its favourite sons. Does resurgent religiosity in the age of fibre-optics demonstrate a need for communion far older than God?

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• Letter from America
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR 19, January-February 2003, pp. 29-40
  Subjects: United States , Europe
  

  Why does a malcontent Europe not simply sue for union with the global hegemon, discarding its wisps of independence to exchange proud membership of the American Empire for today’s sullen servility? A jeu d’esprit from the 18th century in the caustic spirit of S*** and V***.

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• A Guerilla with a Difference
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR I/218, July-August 1996, pp. 128-137
  Subjects: Mexico
  

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• Remarks on the Spectacle
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR I/214, November-December 1995, pp. 134-141
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• A Modest Contribution to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Tenth Anniversary
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR I/115, May-June 1979, pp. 45-65
  Subjects: France , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• Marxism and the National Question
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR I/105, September-October 1977, pp. 25-41
  Subjects: Nationalism , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• Image of the People
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR I/94, November-December 1975, pp. 56-60
  Subjects: Aesthetics , Art
  

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• Notes on Gramsci
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR I/59, January-February 1970, pp. 48-52
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• Problems of Revolutionary Strategy in Latin America
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR I/45, September-October 1967, pp. 13-41
  Subjects: Latin America and the Caribbean , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• Latin America: The Long March
  • Régis Debray

  in NLR I/33, September-October 1965, pp. 17-58
  Subjects: Latin America and the Caribbean , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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