Category Archives: Karl Marx

Karl Marx’s work habits

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

Writing advice from Karl Marx – from a piece of satire inspired by Sperber’s new biography. Whatever you make of his ideas, let alone their later proponents, it’s undeniable that Marx was astonishingly prolific: an unfinished project to publish his … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

Rosi Bradotti, The Posthuman; Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy (to review); Laurence Hemming’s Heidegger and Marx (which I endorsed); Neve Gordon’s Israel’s Occupation; the launch issue of Territory, Politics, Governance (which has an essay from me in it); … Continue reading →

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Mark Poster (1941-2012)

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

Mark Poster, intellectual historian of French thought and theorist of media and information, died yesterday. I never met him or heard him speak, but he was important to me through his writings. Perhaps best known for his work on Baudrillard, Sartre, … Continue reading →

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Reading the Classics of Western Philosophy

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

List below and survey here. The queston asked is how many of these have you read. And the whole of these books, not some, not an abbreviated form. I’m claiming 18 of these, and bits, sometimes substantial, of others. Never read any Sidgwick, Moore, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Books, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Graham Harman, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Locke, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Eric Hobsbawm’s Introduction to the 2012 Edition of Marx & Engels ‘The Communist Manifesto’

Posted on October 4, 2012 by

Verso have made the text of Eric Hobsbawm’s Introduction to the 2012 Edition of Marx & Engels’s The Communist Manifesto available on their blog.

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‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’

Posted on September 28, 2012 by

Verso have posted another one their lists – this time ‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’. Twenty books here including Marx, Paul Mason, Peter Dews, Jameson, Anderson (Perry & Benedict), Stephen Lukes, Žižek, Eagleton, David Harvey, Therborn, Balibar, Vinayak Chaturvedi, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Books, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Etienne Balibar, Fredric Jameson, Karl Marx, Politics, Publishing, Slavoj Zizek, teaching | Leave a comment

Hemming on Heidegger and Marx

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

Laurence Paul Hemming, Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism, forthcoming with Northwestern University Press in early 2013. I was one of the readers of the ms. and it’s a terrific study. Here’s the blurb – the … Continue reading →

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Historical Materialism conference – call for papers

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

‘Weighs Like a Nightmare’ – Ninth Annual Historical Materialism Conference Central London 8-11 November 2012. Call for papers – deadline 1 June 2012. I’ve been told they are particularly interested in papers from the ‘critical/radical/Marxist geography world’… Has Marx been … Continue reading →

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London Conference in Critical Thought

Posted on May 27, 2012 by

Birkbeck, 29-30 June 2012 -programme here; more details here. Papers on art, spaces, human rights, animals, bodies, Marx, Foucault, Deleuze, etc. etc.

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25 years of Actuel Marx

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

An anniversary compilation of some of the best papers from Actuel Marx – details here. This is a journal that has been welcoming to my work – a piece here on Lefebvre’s posthumous reception, which later appeared in English in … Continue reading →

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