It is likely that most readers will come to this book searching not for an introduction to Critical Theory (though it serves this purpose well) but for an introduction to the thought of its author, the famously difficult English philosopher Gillian Rose. Rose helped put Frankfurt School ideas on the curriculum of British universities, published
Historical Materialism is deeply grieved by the passing of the Marxist intellectual giant, philosopher and cultural critic Fredric Jameson at the age of 90. Jameson’s work fundamentally reshaped our understanding of culture, politics and aesthetics, leaving behind an enduring legacy that has inspired generations of thinkers, activists and scholars. From his early encounter with Sartre’s
Joshua Morris, The Many Worlds of American Communism (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2022), xxiii + 497 pp. Audacity and ambition are to be admired in books on American Communism. We have many studies of the particularities of Communist Party (CP) experience: explorations of state and city histories abound; inquiries addressing the trade union or
The title alone betrays the compactness of A. Kiarina Kordela’s Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan: The (Bio)Power of Structure (Routledge 2018). This is a critique of modern thought and politics, including metaphysics, political economy, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, and of the ideological wrapping that enfolds them within separate domains of interest and insight. Kordela deployes a Spinozian monism
If, at the top of the state building, they play the violin, how can we not expect those at the bottom to start dancing? Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte At the continental level, the June 9 European elections mark a significant step forward in the convergence between neoliberalism and neofascism. Beyond destabilising
By Gilbert Achcar Seven months after Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood attack across the fence surrounding the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023, the provisional balance-sheet is daunting. A provisional balance-sheet According to the available figures, on 7 October 1,143 mostly Israeli persons were killed—767 civilians, among whom 36 children and 71 foreigners, and 376 military
Twenty-First Annual Historical Materialism London Conference Countering the Plague: Forces of Reaction and War and How to Fight Them 7-10 November 2024, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 31 May 2024 *DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED* For inquiries contact: conference@historicalmaterialism.org https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ The need to fight against authoritarian, right-wing, militarist politics at a global
Twenty-First Annual Historical Materialism London Conference Countering the Plague: Forces of Reaction and War and How to Fight Them 7-10 November 2024, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 31 May 2024 *DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED* For inquiries contact: conference@historicalmaterialism.org https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ In 2024, all societies are connected to war, its politics, policies,
This year, we are excited to announce the inaugural postgraduate pre-conference scheduled for November 6th, preceding the annual London Historical Materialism conference at SOAS, which runs from November 7th to the 10th. The journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory organises the London conference, which is the largest academic Marxist conference in the world,
(Photo: Barbara Herrenkind) After a long illness, our comrade Marina Vishmidt left us on Friday. Her many friends and collaborators are devastated. Historical Materialism sends all our love and solidarity to her partner Danny Hayward. Marina was an energetic and inventive writer on art and capital, gender and social reproduction, finance and media, and
Twenty-First Annual Historical Materialism London Conference Countering the Plague: Forces of Reaction and War and How to Fight Them 7-10 November 2024, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 31 May 2024 *DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED* For inquiries contact: conference@historicalmaterialism.org https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ In neither form, content, nor tendency are the arts and culture immune
Twenty-First Annual Historical Materialism London Conference Countering the Plague: Forces of Reaction and War and How to Fight Them Sexuality and Political Economy Stream Call for Abstracts: Strategies for Free and Emancipatory Sexualities 7-10 November 2024, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 31 May 2024 *DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED* For inquiries contact: conference@historicalmaterialism.org https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ HM SPEN,
