Posts tagged: marxism

Intense Curiosity: Jameson's The Prison-House of Language

Fredric Jameson's Prison House of Language (1972) is inspiring, Matthew Beaumont writes, because of the author's 'intense curiosity' vis-a-vis the Russian Structuralists. For Jameson's 90th birthday, Beaumont revisits the text, which he describes as anomalous in the theorist's oeuvre.
On Prophetic Form and the Whole Tangled, Dripping Mass of the Dialectic: Jameson at 90

In celebration of Fredric Jameson's 90th birthday, Christopher Breu explores Jameson's work as theorist of temporality and futurity in his 1971 book, Marxism and Form.
Unintimidated Languages: Jameson at 90

In honor of Fredric Jameson's 90th birthday this month, we're publishing a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson's oeuvre. Here, Daniel Hartley revisits Jameson's first book, Sartre: The Origins of a Style (1961).
Karl Marx and Ecology: An Interview with Michael Löwy

While some ecologists remain critical of Marxism and skeptical about how much Marx can offer the environmental movement, Michael Löwy argues that Marx's writing can help us understand the relationship between nature, capitalism, and wealth formation.
‘A Marxist Analysis of the Thought of the Young Marx’: Interview with Michael Löwy

In honor of the re-issue of Michael Löwy's book, The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx, the French publication interviewed Löwy about his approach to Marx's work and how his relationship to Marx and Marxism has evolved over time.
Toni Negri was a reader and continuer of Karl Marx, in an astonishing combination of literality and freedom

Étienne Balibar praises the work of his friend the Italian thinker Antonio Negri, who died on 16 December. Negri theorised creative resistance and new forms of revolt in the face of globalised capitalism.
A face in the crowd

Marshall Berman, the celebrated political philosopher and urbanist, died ten years ago this month. His deep commitment to a Marxist humanism, a 'Marxism with soul', has much still to teach us.
May 5th: A Karl Marx Reading List

Karl Marx was born on this day in 1818. Explore important works that have been shaped by his ideas with this Marx-inspired reading list. Buy any five and save 50% during the Verso Red May sale!
Mike Davis on becoming a Marxist

After losing a coveted niche in the trucking industry, I started UCLA as an adult freshman, attracted by rumors of a high-powered seminar on Capital led by Bob Brenner in the History Department.
The time we need must always be taken; never wait for it to be given

Oliver Davis on neoliberalism's appropriation of the Marxist narrative of historical necessity.
Malm, Workerism and Ecological Leninism

In a series of two articles, Davide Gallo Lassere explores the history and present state of global warming, fossil fuels and Covid-19 in critical dialogue with Andreas Malm's eco-Marxism.
Welcome to the Past. Autonomy of Nature, Fossil Fuels and the Capitalocene

Reading Malm thorugh the prism of Workerism, Davide Gallo Lassere discusses the historic relation between fossil fuels, labour power and global warming.