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Utopia, Ltd.: Constructivism reconstructed
. There’s a piece I wrote up going over the Utopia, Ltd. show that’s been posted on the Metropolis Magazine blog, titled “Reconstructivism.” If anyone reading this is in London, I’d encourage them to...
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All that exists deserves to perish
Against the Proudhonian popery of Père Naphtha . Père Naphtha is a delightful contradiction: a self-identified papist with pretensions to Marxism. Specifically, he belongs to the Maoist/Stalinist...
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Khidekel and the cosmist legacy of suprematism in architecture
. The following is a brief extract from an interview Elena Dobriakova conducted with Regina Khidekel, the daughter-in-law of the great suprematist painter and speculative architect Lazar Khidekel. It...
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Stalinist kitsch
. The title of this entry deserves some explanation. “Stalinist kitsch,” one might object, is a bit superfluous. Or redundant, rather. Everything is announced by simply saying “Stalinist,” after all....
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The ghost of communism past
Against “conference communism” . Image: El Lissitzky, PROUN , . A few months ago I attended the “Communist Currents” mini-conference at Cornell University in Ithaca. Douglas La Rocca and I departed...
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On “conference communism”
Some thoughts in closing . Following the appearance of my belated report on “conference communism” a couple days ago, I received a number of appreciative comments, e-mails, and replies. It would seem I...
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Hal Foster’s critical turn
. There’s a good review by Jeffrey Petts over at the low-key online publication Marx and Philosophy of Hal Foster’s excellent The Art-Architecture Complex (2011). Currently I’m writing a double-review...
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Stalinism and Bolshevism
Leon Trotsky Socialist Review (August 1937) . Reactionary epochs like ours not only disintegrate and weaken the working class and isolate its vanguard but also lower the general ideological level of...
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First as tragedy, then as farce…then as low-budget bondage porn
. Richard Seymour, China Mieville, and Magpie Corven have, along with several others, resigned from the fledgling International Socialist Network following an internet row over interracial lesbian...
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Richard Seymour: Flipping a coin
Christo Coetzee, “Janus” . Corey Ansel blogs at The Chair-Leg of Truth — the title of which I still don’t understand, admittedly. He is also a former member of the Platypus Affiliated Society, having...
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Further adventures in intersectionality
On the hounding of Laurie Penny & Richard Seymour . James Heartfield . . “White settlers” who “cut off indigenous people’s hair as part of genocide”; you make “a lot of erasing statements,” to...
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The oppression ouroboros: Intersectionality eats itself
Jason Walsh Economia 1.25.2014 . Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and...
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Postmodern origins of intersectionality
. In a three-part series of posts, I’ll try to sketch the conceptual genealogy of intersectionality as a mode of postmodern discourse, politically not far removed from the “politics of difference” or...
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The city as a regulated industry: Cornelis van Eesteren and urban planning
Umberto Barbieri Urbanista revista № 8, June 1989 . to be completely elementarily experienced again, and only by elementary means can beauty be attained again. In the first place it is a question of...
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Persecutedness euphemized as “difference”
Elif Batuman, from “Get a real degree” (9.23.2010) London Review of Books . The law of “find your voice” and “write what you know” [in creative writing programs] originates in a phenomenon perhaps most...
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Spartakiade: A Bolshevik alternative to the Olympics
. With opening ceremonies for the 2014 Winter Olympics a couple nights ago in Sochi, Russia — and all the pomp, pageantry, and slapstick that went with it — it’s perhaps appropriate to reflect on the...
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Marxism and class, gender, and race: Rethinking the trilogy
Martha Gimenez Race, Gender, Class Vol. 8, № 2 (2001) . . Photo: Young Uzbek woman from Tashkent holding up her Komsomol membership card, 1927. Dr. Martha E. Gimenez is an Argentinian Marxist-feminist...
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Know your enemy
Image: Pierre-Paul Prud’hon Nemesis and crime (1808) . It would appear that the International Socialist Organization has launched a defamatory campaign intended to discredit me. Various members of the...
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For black Trotskyism
James Robertson & Shirley Stoute SWP-US Discussion Bulletin (Vol. 24, № 30: July 3, 1963) . What follows is a classic but seldom read document from the history of American Trotskyism, covering a...
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Capitalism, Facebook, and the accommodation of difference
. A cultural milestone has been reached. Or so it would seem. Earlier this week Facebook introduced a new option that allows users to customize their gender identity. Up to this point, only two...
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