The whole business of Man is the Arts, and all things Common.
Sep 16, 2018 • 37 tweets • 7 min read
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.
Aug 24, 2018 • 40 tweets • 6 min read
On Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory and Raymond Williams, a thread.
#TheoryTime?
Jul 19, 2018 • 42 tweets • 6 min read
#TheoryTime?
Let's talk about Donna Haraway's 'Staying with the Trouble,' specifically Chapter Two on the Anthropocene, the Capitalocene and Chthulucene...
Jun 28, 2018 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
On Fredric Jameson and Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, a thread. #TheoryTime
Jameson begins with what he admits is a strong claim - namely, that of the centrality of the political to literary interpretation.
May 1, 2018 • 28 tweets • 4 min read
I've been rereading Oscar Wilde's "The Soul of Modern Man Under Socialism" for #MayDay - a work that looks forward time when workers can be set free from the drudgery of work
"Under socialism what will you do without the motivation of wages?"
For Wilde, the answer to this was quite simple - freed from work man would be able to spend their time on self-cultivation.
Dec 2, 2017 • 53 tweets • 6 min read
#TheoryTime?
The Great Caliban: The Struggle Against The Rebel Body - A Thread.
Nov 13, 2017 • 55 tweets • 10 min read
So, #TheoryTime?
You voted for it, so let's talk about Sara Ahmed's brilliant book, Queer Phenomenology.
