Feminisms and Marxisms Call for Papers
Hey feminists, not all historical materialism is misogynist. Well, maybe it is. Either way: The Feminisms and Marxisms’ section of the 10th Historical Materialism Conference is currently accepting...
View ArticleFanon Doesn’t Think You Are An ‘Accidental Racist’
Are you a white (wo)man that cringes in fear when you encounter a black man in a doo-rag? Do you even know what a doo-rag is?Or, are you a black (wo)man encountering the confederate flag decorating...
View ArticleLatest New Left Project Interview Published on Alain Badiou
The New Left Project has released its latest in a series of interviews about critical theory. Samuel Grove sat down with Colin Wright to discuss the philosophy of Alain Badiou. Wright is a lecturer at...
View ArticleLupe Fiasco Goes Marxist on Twitter
Rapper Lupe Fiasco recently took to his Twitter account to spread the good word of Marxist revolution to his 1.3 million followers. While many of you will immediately call bullshit on a...
View ArticleCody Wilson Talks Foucault With Glenn Beck
In case you missed it, 3D printers are the latest example of Star Trek totally calling the future. So when the devices, which normally produce small sculptures and trinkets, were discovered to be...
View ArticleGood Riddance: Analytic Philosophy is Dead, Says Stephen Hawking
Continental philosophy is often looked on with scorn by highfalutin analytic philosophers who covet the majority of professorships in the American university system. After all, a field like continental...
View ArticleGame of Thrones: A White Liberal’s Orientalist Wetdream
Games of Thrones is a massively popular show on HBO (based on this book about white people fighting other white people to become king, or something. Also, snow zombies. But a story about a bunch of...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Music, Marxism and the Frankfurt School
The School of Music at the University College Dublin is now accepting calls for papers for a forthcoming conference “Music, Marxism and the Frankfurt School.” You have until December 31st, 2013 to...
View ArticleGet the First 50 Pages of ‘Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and...
“Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo” is a prohibitively expensive book about an awesome topic. But don’t fret, you can read the first 50 pages of this book for free while you...
View ArticleAlain Badiou is Making a Movie About Plato with Brad Pitt and Sean Connery
Alain Badiou, translator of the latest version of Plato’s Republic, is writing a screenplay called “The Life of Plato.” And he wants for its leading role none other than Brad Pitt, supported by Sean...
View ArticleCall for Papers: ‘Derrida Today’ in NYC
Derrida Today is both a journal and conference founded in 2008. They are now accepting papers for the 2014 conference to be held May 28-31 in New York City at Fordham university. Submissions are due...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Rosa Luxemburg Workshop
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is holding an international workshop from the 7th to the 9th of March 2014 in Berlin on Rosa Luxemburg’s seminal work: “The Accumulation of Capital”. The specific focus...
View ArticleThere’s a Movie About Felix Guattari’s Attempt to Make a Movie
Gilles Deleuze wasn’t the only one in the D&G duo to have a passion for film. It turns out Felix Guattari wrote a sci-fi screenplay in the 1980s. It’s titled “Un amour d’UIQ,” (Love of UIQ)...
View ArticleThe Bronx Now Has a Monument to Antonio Gramsci
Have you ever walked through a public housing complex and exclaimed, “Geez, after all the years of city neglect, rampant mold, bedbugs, and a gross indifference to the gaping hole in my ceiling, we...
View ArticlePBS News Hour Gives More Proof That the Rich are Awful
Earlier this month, we published an article called “3 Studies That Prove Capitalism is Making US Evil,” where listed studies that showed, among other things, that taking economics classes turned you...
View ArticlePurdue’s President Tried to Ban Howard Zinn Books
Recently released documents have shown that former governor of Indiana and current president of Purdue University tried to censor Howard Zinn’s works from Indiana classrooms. Mitch Daniels is an...
View ArticleTrayvon Martin and bell hooks’ Prophetic Words: A Lesson in ‘Imperialist...
As I am sure that you have heard, on Saturday, July 13th, George Zimmerman, the man accused of murdering teenager Trayvon Martin, was found ‘not guilty’ of either murder or manslaughter. Naturally,...
View ArticleZizek Strikes Back! Calls Chomsky Empirically Wrong
Since February, we’ve been covering the fallout of an interview Chomsky gave wherein he called Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Zizek “charlatans.” Chomsky has recently, and in the past, berated critical...
View ArticleUmberto Eco and Jurgen Habermas Are Coming to Athens to Summon the Ghost of...
Well, the last half of that headline is a lie. But Umberto Eco and Jurgen Habermas really are coming to Athens for the World Congress of Philosophy in August, in addition to Simon Critchley. Eco is...
View ArticleYou Have Four Days to Get in On McKenzie Wark’s Kickstarter
McKenzie Wark, professor of cultural studies at The New School and author of the recent “The Spectacle of Disintegration,” is crowd-funding his latest project through Kickstarter. Wark and artist...
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