A new article in Political Geography extends my ongoing research at the intersection of political economy, literature, and geography to delve into the constitution of frontier space in the work of Cormac McCarthy. Drawing from archival research at The Wittliff Collections with an [...]
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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Milton Santos, The Nature of Space, trans. Brenda Baletti (Duke University Press, 2021).
Our discussions will commence with the first meeting to [...]
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The year 2021 represents an important milestone in Australian literary history – the fiftieth anniversary of David Ireland’s Miles Franklin Prize-winning novel The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. This anniversary comes at a time of unprecedented economic, political and social dislocation, as the [...]
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A sweep through key arguments about the abstracting logic of capital will yield a common emphasis, which is a stress on the “indifference” of capital to those it exploits. For sure, this is evident in some of Marx’s own writings. Witness points in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts on [...]
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This mailing list will replace our old mailing list service, which was down for a while, and will stop working soon. If you were [...]
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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (Monthly Review Press, 2017). This is our [...]
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There can be no bigger compliment to George Lawson’s new book Anatomies of Revolution, than to invoke the figure of Fred Halliday. For the last six years of teaching a course on revolutions in the making of “the international”, I have used a quote to try and grab students’ attentions about [...]
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Perhaps granted much less attention than it merits, Henri Lefebvre in The Production of Space directly draws the reader’s attention to Marx’s Capital, Vol.3, and a focus on the ‘trinity’ formula (land, labour, capital) that transcends the capital-labour binary. Lefebvre asks us: ‘What of the [...]
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