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Latest New Left Review Out Now (64, July-August 2010)

Out now: NLR 64, the July-August issue.

Some highlights include:

Gavan McCormack: Obama vs. Okinawa

Practical lessons in world hegemony, as Japan's attempt to strike an independent course is cut down by the Obama Administration. For the islanders of Okinawa, another chapter in the centuries old tale of military occupation. Gavan McCormack is the author of Client State.

Slavoj Zizek: A Permanent Economic Emergency

As the Eurozone's sovereign-debt crisis deepens, Slavoj Zizek calls for an...

Verso Books on the City and Space

Restless Cities edited by Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart

Leading intellectuals reimagine the city as a site of ceaseless change and motion. Includes essays by Iain Sinclair, Geoff Dyer and Patrick Keiller.

Paperback – 344 pages – 9781844674053 – £12.99 – 2010

The Situationists and the City: A Reader by Tom McDonough

"A highly readable and well-organised compendium that is likely to be fingered for some time, it lays out neatly the movement's visionary take on the city (read Paris) 'as the...

Professor Paul Fry on Fredric Jameson’s The Political Unconscious

Fredric Jameson’s new book The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit is published in hardback in August 2010.

Filed under: Fredric Jameson

Professor Paul Fry on Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious

Fredric Jameson's new book The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit is published in hardback in August 2010.

Filed under: Fredric Jameson

Guides to Reading Marx

The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work.

Verso has a collection of key works by some of the most respected scholars to guide the reader through Marx.

A Compa nion to Marx's Capital by David Harvey

Paperback – 2010 – 320 pages – £10.99 – 9781844673599

For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world's foremost Marx scholars. Based on his recent lectures, this current volume aims to b...

MARXISM IN CULTURE

PROGRAMME FOR SUMMER TERM 2010

Friday 30 April

No End & No Beginning: Pop, Periodization, Problems c. 1989

Joshua Clover (University of California, Davis)

Friday 14 May – This seminar starts at the earlier time of 4.00pm

Symposium on Fredric Jameson

Matthew Beaumont (University College London), Gail Day (Leeds University), Nina Power (Roehampton University), and Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths)

Jameson's latest book is Valences of the Dialectic; The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit

‘Wal-Marx’ – Ben Noys reviews Frederic Jameson’s Valences of Dialectic for The Philosophers’ Magazine

Ben Noys, author of The Culture of Death and blogger reviews Fredric Jameson’s new book Valences of the Dialectic for The Philosophers’ Magazine:

…as Marx “inverted” Hegel’s dialectic to “stand it on its feet”, Jameson inverts our usual image of the dialectic.

The dialectic is no longer the sign of grand systematic philosophy, like a juggernaut crushing all before it. Instead, Jameson argues that the dialectic in fact undermines the totalising claims of philosophy, making our thinking fluid again, and putting into question all our fixed intellectual signposts…

…The dialectic is not just a matter of challenging fixed thinking, but also the fixed categories of our social life.

Fredric Jameson is the author of numerous books, including Archaeologies of the Future, The Modernist Papers, A Singular Modernity and Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit is forthcoming in 2010.

The full article is available to subscribers on The Philosophers’ Magazine website, here.

Posted in Fredric Jameson, Philosophy

'Wal-Marx' – Ben Noys reviews Frederic Jameson's Valences of Dialectic for The Philosophers' Magazine

Ben Noys, author of The Culture of Death and blogger reviews Fredric Jameson's new book Valences of the Dialectic for The Philosophers' Magazine:

…as Marx "inverted" Hegel's dialectic to "stand it on its feet", Jameson inverts our usual image of the dialectic.

The dialectic is no longer the sign of grand systematic philosophy, like a juggernaut crushing all before it. Instead, Jameson argues that the dialectic in fact undermines the totalising claims of philosophy, making our thinking fluid...

Historical Materialism Volume 17 Issue 4 is out now

Historical Materialism

Research in Critical Marxist TheoryBook here for the 2nd North American Conference, January 14th to 16th 2010

Volume 17 Issue 4 2009 is out now:

CONTENTS

Articles

Elizabeth Esch and David Roediger

Massimiliano Tomba

Karl Beitel
The Rate of Profit and the Problem of Stagnant Investment:
A Structural Analysis...

Highlights of Historical Materialism conference

Thanks to the HM team for a great conference – the biggest and most enthusiastic yet. Verso's highlights were:

Kees Van Der Pijl giving the Deutscher prize lecture for his book Nomads, Empires, States.The Apocalypse Marxism panel featuring Mark Fisher giving a taste of his Capitalist Realism, Ben Noys giving a flavour of his new book with EUP next year, The Persistence of the Negative, and Evan Calder Williams on salvagepunk and the apocalypse. Mark's paper is available here.In his first...