Category Archives: Andy Merrifield

Andy Merrifield, “Gramsci and his friend ‘S'”

Posted on April 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, “Gramsci and his friend ‘S’“ A post exploring the generational links between Merrifield, David Harvey, Piero Sraffa and Antonio Gramsci. I was in New York recently, where I once lived, some twenty-years back, there to visit my old … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023

Posted on December 19, 2022 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023 Andy tells me the striking cover image is by André Kertész.

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Andy Merrifield, ‘Mystified Consciousness’ in Monthly Review – on Lefebvre’s relevance today

Posted on March 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield,‘Mystified Consciousness’ in Monthly Review – on Lefebvre’s relevance to today. Andy’s book Marx Dead and Alive is forthcoming from Monthly Review Press.

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Andy Merrifield, What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (And Love)

Posted on April 27, 2018 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (And Love) – out in June from OR books. Update: an excerpt is now available open access: Between Utopia and Dystopia: Encountering Marshall Berman and Mike Davis In often dreamlike … Continue reading →

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The Right to the City: A Verso Report – free ebook

Posted on November 8, 2017 by stuartelden

The Right to the City: A Verso Report – free ebook Special eBook collection on the most urgent question of our times: who is the city for? In 1968, the French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre wrote “Le Droite a la Ville” … Continue reading →

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Antipode Intervention on Lefebvre – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield

Posted on December 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Antipode Intervention – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield. This piece discusses Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy, forthcoming in English translation with Verso. I suspect I’m not the only one thrilled by the prospect of seeing Henri Lefebvre’s great philosophical tract, Métaphilosophie, … Continue reading →

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Benjamin Fraser (ed.), Marxism and Urban Culture

Posted on May 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Interesting collection of essays on Marxism and Urban Culture, edited by Benjamin Fraser (author of Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience, and editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, with a preface by Andy Merrifield. Thanks to Adam David Morton for the … Continue reading →

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David Harvey and Andy Merrifield, London, 3 April 2014 – sold out

Posted on March 17, 2014 by stuartelden

“Contradictions of capitalism and the new urban question” – David Harvey and Andy Merrifield in conversation, Birkbeck, London, 3 April 2014. More details here. Unfortunately the website now says that there are no tickets available.

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