Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

Austin Smidt | September 22, 2020

There is too much to say. At the same time, there is a marked simplicity to convey. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition is both a sprawling investigation and also hums a singular refrain. To convey these rhythms, this brief piece will attempt to both entice readers to [...]

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Ecofeminism as Politics: a conversation with Ariel Salleh

Andreas Bieler | Ariel Salleh | September 15, 2020

In 2017, Ariel Salleh published the second edition of her book Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern (Zed Books, 2017). In her outstanding engagement with multiple oppressions within the capitalist global economy, she convincingly argues that patriarchal oppression is [...]

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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | September 10, 2020

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics [1922] (MIT Press, 1971).

Our meetings will commence next month, with [...]

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Developmental States in Dependent Market Economies and Low-Tech Sectors

David Karas | September 8, 2020

In a recent paper co-authored with László Bruszt and published in a Special Issue of Review of International Political Economy, we identify a developmental state in the least likely  of times – the period of hegemonic neoliberalism in the 1990s and early 2000s – and the least likely of [...]

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CfP Ships in the proletarian night: contemporary Marxist thought in France and Britain

Sakshi Aravind | September 3, 2020

Call for Papers Ships in the proletarian night: contemporary Marxist thought in France and Britain

25th – 27th March 2021

Alison Richards Building, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge

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Rethinking Global Labour: A Rejoinder to Ronaldo Munck

Andreas Bieler | September 1, 2020

In an interesting reply by Ronaldo Munck to my review of his book Rethinking Global Labour he misunderstands the implications of my conceptual criticisms. Rather than pointing to my empirical work in the area of Global Labour Studies since 2008, I will make two conceptual points in [...]

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Peter Thiel’s Zero to One explains why ‘big tech’ dominates

Seb Wrangles | August 25, 2020

Peter Thiel is many things. A staunch libertarian, he is the billionaire Founder of PayPal and Palintir, an early investor in Facebook, and confidant to the likes of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The small group of colleagues he had at PayPal’s inception left to form companies like YouTube, [...]

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Crisis Architecture | Architectural Crisis

Austin Smidt | August 20, 2020

“Western thought is marked by a will to architecture that is reiterated and renewed at times of crisis.” – Kojin Karatani

The Challenge of Architecture (as Metaphor):

There is a spectre haunting capitalist societies, the spectre of that which is repressed by “the will to [...]

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