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On @CoreyRobin's "The Reactionary Mind" and US conservatism: A Thread #TheoryTime
Robin begins with a story about the modern age - that under a variety of banners, movements and ideals groups of people have organised for freedom, equality, democracy and at every point they have been resisted, often violently.
Or as Robin puts it, 'every so often the subordinates of this world contest their fate,' and in that contesting they become active agents. More than the demand it is the agency of the subordinated class which poses the threat to the status quo
On Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory and Raymond Williams, a thread.
Williams argues that any coherent attempt to construct a viable Marxist theory of cultural analysis usually begins with the proposition of a determining base and a determined superstructure
Let's talk about Donna Haraway's 'Staying with the Trouble,' specifically Chapter Two on the Anthropocene, the Capitalocene and Chthulucene...
Haraway begins with a question - what happens when the 'old saws' of Western philosophy and political economics (namely human exceptionalism and individualism) begin to be unthinkable - not available to think with?
Jameson begins with what he admits is a strong claim - namely, that of the centrality of the political to literary interpretation.
Thus, Jameson goes beyond the modest claim that certain texts have social and historical, even political, resonances.
The Great Caliban: The Struggle Against The Rebel Body - A Thread.
As Foucault points out, one of the preconditions for the development of capitalism is the process of disciplining the body.
So, #TheoryTime?
You voted for it, so let's talk about Sara Ahmed's brilliant book, Queer Phenomenology.
Specifically, I'm going to talk about Chapter One as it provides a good introduction to Ahmed's thought and phenomenology more generally.
