Toward collective intellectual labour; or, How seven critical scholars got along with each other and co-authored a journal article

Sirma Altun | Christian Caiconte | Madelaine Moore | Adam David Morton | Matthew Ryan | Riki Scanlan | Austin Smidt | June 7, 2022

Through the Past & Present Reading Group we have experienced an organic, collective strategy of reading and writing that makes collective intellectual labour a little easier, and much more fun. This has come to the fore most recently in both our collective reading of György Lukács’ History and [...]

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Travelling with Lukács

Sirma Altun | Christian Caiconte | Madelaine Moore | Adam David Morton | Matthew Ryan | Riki Scanlan | Austin Smidt | May 31, 2022

We have travelled with Lukács. Despite the global pandemic conditions of lockdown induced by Covid-19, as a group of scholars forged through collective intellectual labour, we each picked up György Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness and travelled, at least intellectually. Based in [...]

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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | May 12, 2022

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is  Jairus Banaji, A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2020).

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Memorialising Monuments

Adam David Morton | February 15, 2022

What if a longstanding monument or a building can slice through history (time) and geography (space) to provide past and present insights on the construction of place? Essentially this has been a question explicitly carried throughout one aspect of my ongoing research on spatial political [...]

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Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’

Adam David Morton | December 31, 2021

This text was first published in Avanti!, Turin edition, from Antonio Gramsci’s column “Sotto la Mole,” January 1, 1916.

Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day.

That’s why I hate these New Years that fall like [...]

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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | December 23, 2021

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology, trans. Martin Sohn-Rethel (Haymarket Books, 2021).

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Novel Reading in 2021

Adam David Morton | December 21, 2021

Following my annual practice, I have listed here my “novel” reading for 2021. This is a way of documenting what I get through in a year’s worth of reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “normal” academic reading—albeit there was, again, [...]

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Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography

Stuart Elden | Adam David Morton | November 4, 2021

A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work.

In collaboration with Stuart Elden, we are pleased to present Lefebvre’s key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book [...]

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