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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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Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology

Christian Caiconte | May 5, 2022

The Past & Present Reading Group commenced 2022 by reading Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s Intellectual and Manual Labour. In my view, engaging with the book meant a rare and valuable opportunity to stop and reflect on the link between epistemology and Marxist theorising, a theme that had been haunting [...]

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Heller on Needs, or How to Think Radically in a Quantified World

Christian Caiconte | April 26, 2022

This post is written jointly by the Value, Health and Radical Needs Reading Group, a collective of activists, early career researchers and PhD candidates interested in the study of the contemporary social condition (Value), its costs (Health) and its possible transformation (Radical [...]

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Why Study Political Economy?

 

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Three Theories of Underdevelopment

 

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Marx’s method of political economy

 

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What is Constructivism For?

 

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Beyond the Stereotype: How Dependency Theory Remains Relevant

 

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Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch

 

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Coronavirus, Crisis and the End of Neoliberalism

 

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10 talking points from Jason W. Moore’s ‘Capitalism in the Web of Life’

 

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Marxist Theories of Imperialism

 

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Philip Mirowski, ‘Polanyi vs Hayek?’