New Book: Allegory and Ideology
by Fredric Jameson. From Verso: This major new work by Fredric Jameson is not a book about “method,” but it does propose
New Book: Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West
By Deborah Cook. From Verso: Adorno, Foucault, and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to of
The Foundations for an Ethical Political Humanist Social Science
By David M. Fields, Social reality must not be recognized as an aura of perceived characteristics, of which there lies n
New Book: Declarations of Dependence – Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care
by Scott Ferguson. From University of Nebraska Press: Declarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relations
Michael Burawoy: Marxism Engages Bourdieu
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PycIm1jkiUQ&w=640&h=360] The influence of Pierre Bourdieu
Money on the Left : Digital Arts & Humanities
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf9hRMJRDQs&w=640&h=360] Digital Arts & Humanities&#
New Book: Digital Demagogue Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter
By Christian Fuchs. From Pluto Press: From ‘Covfefe’ to #FraudNewsCNN and #FakeNews, Donald TrumpR
New Book: The Political Theory of Che Guevara
By Renzo Llorente. From Rowman & Littlefield: Nearly half a century after his death, Ernesto “Che” Guevara remain
A short note on the essence of social theory
By David Fields, The epistemological practicality of social theory is to draw a unifying essence, a sensibility of coh
New Book: The New Spirit of Capitalism
by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, translated by Gregory Elliott. From Verso: In this major work, sociologists Luc Bo
New Book: A Failed Parricide – Hegel and the Young Marx
by Roberto Finelli Translated by Peter D Thomas. From Haymarket books: Many hold that the transition from Hegel’s mate
Capitalism’s life source: the domestic and social basis for exploitation
Tithi Bhattacharya responds to questions from rs21 on her new book about social reproduction theory. For someone who h
The Productive Base as the Ground of Society and History: Marx’s Base-Superstructure Theory
By John McMurtry, “One basis for life and another basis for science is an a-priori lie” –Karl Marx, Economic and P
New Book: The End of Progress – Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
By Amy Allen. From Columbia University Press: While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea
New Book: Critiquing Capitalism Today – New Ways to Read Marx
By Frederick Harry Pitts. From Palgrave: This book critically introduces and compares two of the most compelling cont
New Book: C.L.R. James – The Artist As Revolutionary
by Paul Buhle. From Verso: C. L. R. James was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a