Thinking the Present

Marxist Literary Criticism Today – Barbara Foley

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The message of Marxist criticism has more to offer students striving for change while facing the world.

99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value — Brian Massumi

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Post-capitalist thinking here is not a navel-gazing exercise in utopian fabulation, but a very direct imperative to think through capitalist value-structures.

Breathing: Chaos and Poetry – Franco “Bifo” Berardi

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There’s a great deal of chaos, very little breathing or poetry.

Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest In 3 Acts – Aruna D’Souza

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WHITEWALLING: ART, RACE, & PROTEST IN 3 ACTS exposes systems that perpetuate racial oppression in the art world and pricks a bubble of white-centered consciousness with a clear message about complicity.

Ethical Probe on Mixed Martial Arts Enthusiasts in the USA – Andy Martrich

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More than a sport, MMA is a hyperbolic spectacle that echoes and validates its viewers’ faith in old-fashioned notions of truth and realism.

A Marxist Education – Wayne Au

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The overdetermination of education as a moral endeavor is rife both within the profession and in public and political discourse.

Radical Sacrifice – Terry Eagleton

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The dust jacket claims that Radical Sacrifice “distils the essence of Eagleton’s later thought,” but at the outset it seems like that later thought is stuck in an era now long past.

Millennials and the Moments that Made Us – Shaun Scott

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[Shaun Scott] uses the book as an occasion to decenter and problematize the mainstream cultural idea of the American Millennial as any middle- or upper-class white twenty-something with a liberal arts degree trying to make it as, say, a voice of a generation.

M Archive: After the End of the World – Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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Emitting Afrofuturism and centering black female imagination, M ARCHIVE embodies critical future writing now.