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The Rhythm of Thought in Gramsci: A Diachronic Interpretation of Prison Notebooks

1. On Tuesday 25 April Toni Negri will be in Cambridge (Gonville & Caius – 
5.00pm)

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS:

Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography

International Conference

CAPITAL.150: MARX’S CAPITAL TODAY

Communards and Other Cultural Histories

Global Civil War: Solidarity by Proxy

Call for Papers Cadernos Cemarx no.10
 
Special issue: Marxism, sexuality and gender
 
 
Since its emergence as a political and theoretical movement, Marxism has been engaged in discussions about gender and sexuality. It has consequently been consistently involved in the political and theoretical disputes that underline these ideas and since the 1970s has been one of the main traditions that influenced the development of research into them, despite sometimes controversially interpreting gender and sexuality in economistic ways. Nevertheless, the specific political, economic and cultural context of each period has determined how much attention those questions receive, resulting in different waves of theoretical output.  The growing public prominence of gender and sexuality demands, the emergence of several different LGBT and feminist movements in the last decades, as well as the fact that this blossoming occurred in a context of global economic and political crises have all resulted in novel Marxist contributions to these topics.
 
Therefore, the special section of this issue will welcome theoretical and empirical contributions using Marxist approaches to interpret questions related to sexuality and gender. Contributions may also draw on other theoretical frameworks in dialogue with Marxism. This encompasses a broad group of themes, including: Marxist debates about gender and sexuality; the relation between Marxism and feminist and sexuality studies (gays, lesbians, queers, LGBTs, etc.); debates on social reproduction, the monogamous family, patriarchy and heterosexism; the role of sexual and social division of labour; the interplay between gender and sexuality oppression and class exploitation; the relation between Marxist parties and social movements and questions about gender and sexual diversity; the relations between feminists and LGBT movements with the state and neoliberalism; the question of sexual emancipation and socialism.

Call for statements of interest for contributions to a series of thematic pamphlets on Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project

To be edited by Sam Dolbear and Hannah Proctor, & designed by Sophie Carapetian

Historical Materialism New York starts this Friday, April 21^st, at NYU with its opening plenary ‘Class Composition and Strategy Today.’

The  Autonomy Institute is a new research platform launching in June 2017 for the purpose of rethinking work in our societies. It is a theoretical, political, and economic project.