I have an essay contrasting theory camps and communist ones in the latest issue PMLA, which reflects on the 1983 Illinois Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture conference. I sketch a material history of the perilous assumption that professional actions necessarily constitute political activity.
Postdoc research opportunity in modernist & Joyce studies: www.iasil.org/2025/10/job-...
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social gave me the privilege + pleasure of reading an earlier draft; I'm excited to see it made public.
May this vision help generate thousands of curious convos, a robust counterculture on public finance...
....and, one day, radical financial action at a scale of millions.
Now out in paperback with @haymarketbooks.org, Jairus Banaji, *A Marxist Mosaic: Selected Writings 1968–2022*. Currently 20% off from the Haymarket Books website.
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
On the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre’s crucial but lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy
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Visit us at #RGS2025 or online: buff.ly/QVZnPGz
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
The MSA offers a limited number of $500 travel grants for conference participants in the Boston conference this Oct. The deadline is this Friday, August 15! Apply here: www.moderniststudies.org/members/trav...
Don't forget to register for the conference by Aug. 31 for reduced registration rates!
In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.
Final installment of The Jameson Tapes. Your guide to becoming an “ideological lexicologist”!
NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
lol. someone edited David Damrosch's wiki page to mention WReC
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D...
🎉 New Benchmark Alert: KRISTEVA – Close‑Reading for LLMs📚
I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!
@danieljhartley.bsky.social
Now published: 'Prose Style and Politics: Marx as Dialectical Writer' by Jim Kincaid.
This is also the odd feature of time in Capitalism; periodisation is tricky when we are dealing with the moment of finance capitalism.
I’m trying to think production of ‘intelligence’ in both- ‘accumulation’ and ‘expropriation’. Like ‘money’ its form of mediation of human labour but it’s only usable as ‘capital’. AI is being used in speculative finance, not in imperial power grab, which means we have skipped that phase.
A very compelling argument though!
But we might be missing its paradoxical speculative, creative aspect—how it makes up stuff out of other stuff vis a vis ‘intelligence’—the very next ‘moment’ of capitalism in Arrighi’s schema: finance. We have to look at ‘accumulation’ with its dialectically opposite term ‘expropriation’.
reminder that the Frederic Jameson reading group is up and running over on Patreon. Aiming to make this one interesting for folks with a background in philosophy/theory while also accessible for those without one.
www.patreon.com/posts/jameso...
It’s been so smoky grey here I’m missing these sunsets 🌅 #sunset
If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...
Critiquing ‘spreedsheet school of criticism’ by putting it into genre fiction? Love it
punx not dead
My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!
‘Any account of Plath’s life must also hurtle, trudge or wander towards her death, and we will always have that wrong.’
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Next, we have @raunak.bsky.social's article on ‘The Irish Novel of History in History,’ a theoretical analysis of historical narrativity, performed through a deconstructionist reading of Joyce's 'Ulysses'.
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/t...
Susan Buck-Morss’s ‘Hegel, Haiti and Universal History’ written in 2009 speaks for this moment as well while a history of violence turns over again… (p. 149)
René Char, tr. Tony Montague
Beckett destroys me.
