Mikhail Lifshitz translated from the Russian and edited by David Riff The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop Art Chicago, IL: Haymarket, 2019 153 pp, 28$ pb. ISBN 9781642590104 Reviewed by: Edward Lee-Six Abstract This article reviews The Crisis of Ugliness, a polemic against modern art by Mikhail Lifshitz (1905-1983).
(An attempt to synthesise the results of discussions held between the 3rd and 8th July, 1978) Preface This report was published in the Bulletin of the Communist Platform, No. 2, June–September 1978, and is an attempt to present the discussions of two socialist feminist workshops held in Bombay (a smaller,more theoretical Marxist discussion from 3
Jordy Cummings Enzo Traverso is perhaps the finest Marxist scholar of the “Jewish Question”. Throughout his considerable amount of published work, notably the recently reissued The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate, the “Jewish question” is a consistent point of implicit and explicit reference. For Traverso, Anti-Jewish violence is absolutely central to the project
Last February, Marina Vishmidt and I met in London where we discussed her book Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital (2018)in the Historical Materialism Book Series. We then planned to collaborate on an event in New York that Spring. When that didn’t happen, we recorded a short
A Review of Citizenship by Étienne Balibar Lorenzo Buti Research Institute in Political Philosophy Leuven, KU Leuven lorenzo.buti@kuleuven.be Étienne Balibar, (2015) Citizenship, translated by Thomas Scott-Railton, Cambridge: Polity Press. Abstract Citizenship contains the most updated version of Étienne Balibar’s theoretical investigations of the concepts citizenship and democracy. In an analysis covering multiple historical periods, Balibar
Christopher R. Cox, University of Washington, Seattle Jimmy Hendrix famously played the American National Anthem out of tune, with distortion, and added an improvised section. Donna Haraway dared to use the image of the cyborg as the canvas on which to paint a radical feminist theory of gender that is non-binary to the point
Alf Hornborg, Lund University Christopher Cox has responded to my critique of his eulogical review of Jason Moore’s posthumanist brand of Marxism.1 His response is even more revealing than his review, because it candidly illuminates why Moore’s deliberations on “world-ecology” have been so widely endorsed among a category of students who have been persuaded that a
Abstract: Critically discussing Malm’s (2018) The Progress of this Storm, this review article directly relates to a recent discussion inHistorical Materialism concerning a major epistemic rift in the eco-Marxist debate (Cox vs Hornborg). The article provides an overview of Malm’s argument to subsequently refute his definition of historical materialism in terms of an abstract
Panagiotis Sotiris Rossana Rossanda, who passed away on 20 September 2020, exemplified the combination of a profound intellectuality and an equally profound political but also moral commitment that marked the best moments of European communism of the 20th century. With a long militant engagement and, at the same time, a very important politically-informed intellectual
A Review of The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–1968): ‘Neither Lenin nor Trotsky nor Stalin! All Workers Must Think for Themselves!’ by Philippe Bourrinet Alex de Jong International Institute for Research and Education, Amsterdam, the Netherlands alexdejong@iire.org Abstract Left-communism was initially a response to setbacks faced by the communist movement after the
Giorgio Cesarale Nancy Fraser’s positions have taken up a particularly important place in the contemporary debate on socialism. But we ought to evaluate both the merits of what she proposes, and its problems. Nancy Fraser’s discourse on socialism, as espoused in ‘What Should Socialism Mean in the Twenty-First Century?’, has the merit
Translated by Loren Balhorn When it comes to West German contributions to Marxist theory, most people think of the Frankfurt School of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno. Yet just as influential, at least within the German-speaking world, was the ‘Marburg School’, which emerged in the early 1960s around the Marxist political scientist Wolfgang Abendroth
