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What’s New – 30th October 2023 - Historical Materialism
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What’s New – 30th October 2023

30th Oct 2023

– Subjectivation and Cohesion: Towards the Reconstruction of a Materialist Theory of Law, with Sonja Buckel (Kassel University), 13 Nov 2023, 5-7pm, Goldsmiths, University of London, RHB Room 137a

– New issue of the Commons journal, out November. The Russian Invasion and the Ukrainian Left: The Struggle for a Social Ukraine. Commons Journal 13/2023

https://commons.com.ua/en/

– New Book: Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary By Harry Harootunian

https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3275/Archaism-and-ActualityJapan-and-the-Global-Fascist

– The “New” Lukács by Andrew Feenberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wycO62yi5c&t=3104s

– Now online: Reform versus Transformation: Reflections on the Legacy of Corbynism’s Economic Programme, by Mary Robertson

https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/aop/article-10.1163-1569206x-bja10024/article-10.1163-1569206x-bja10024.xml     

Call for papers for special issue of Political Theology on “Marx and Revolution.” The deadline for abstracts is 15 December 2023. Please send questions and/or 400 words abstracts to the guest editors Sara-Maria Sorentino (ssorentino@ua.edu) and Mikkel Flohr (mflohrc@ruc.dk).

https://politicaltheology.com/cfp-special-issue-on-marx-and-revolution/

– Now Online: Nancy Fraser’s Cannibal Capitalism: An Extended Discussion Cannibal Capitalism, By Irina Herb, Dana Abdel-Fatah, Deborshi Chakraborty, and George Edwards

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-review/nancy-frasers-cannibal-capitalism-extended-discussion

– Now Online: Jon Elster on French Absolutism and its Collapse in 1789. A Review of France Before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime, by Stephen J. Miller 

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-review/jon-elster-french-absolutism-and-its-collapse-1789-review-france-before-1789-unraveling

– Now Online: Everything Goes: Three Problems with The Dawn of Everything A Review of The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow, by Peter Kulchyski

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-review/everything-goes-three-problems-with-dawn-everything-review-dawn-everything-david

– Now Online: Histories of ‘Everything’. A Review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow, and The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen, by Marcus Bajema

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-review/histories-everything-review-dawn-everything-new-history-humanity-david-graeber-and

– Now Online: Flashbacks, Fascism and the New Prehistory. Review of Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s by Romy Golan and Against the Avant-garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art and Neocapitalism by Ara Merjian, by Jacopo Galimberti 

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-review/flashbacks-fascism-and-new-prehistory-review-flashback-eclipse-political-imaginary

– Reminder: Online Registration for HM Conference Now Open – Ends 6 November 

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/blog/registration-now-open-twentieth-annual-conference