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Adam Morris
Adam Morris is a writer, translator, and scholar. He has contributed to CR: The New Cen
Adam Morris is a writer, translator, and scholar. He has contributed to CR: The New Centennial Review, Public Books, Criticism, parallax, Cabinet, The Believer, Times Literary Supplement, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His translation of Hilda Hilst's With My Dog-Eyes was published by Melville House in 2014.
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We Are Not Communists—We Are "Hermeneutic Communists"
Essay
Zabala and Vattimo argue for a hermeneutic communism, which operates without the assumption of metaphysical truth and without the impositions and violence that accompany such positions. This approach represents a new way forward for the international Left.
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Beyond the Engine
Essay
The horizon of struggle isn’t endless; indeed, it’s starting to look shorter than ever. So what does Marxism mean in a century whose prospects look bleak?
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U.S. Capitalism and the New “Brown Scare”
Essay
Donald Trump's anti-immigrant and anti-Latino posturing is the latest exhumation of a deeply rooted strain of racism.
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The Unheard-of Center: Critique after Modern Monetary Theory
Essay
After Modern Monetary Theory, nothing looks the same: not political economy; not everyday caretaking; not paintings, pop songs, or porn sites.
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Survival, or, the War Logic of Global Capitalism
Essay
Perhaps the logic of global capitalism is no longer cultural but has evolved into a logic of war.
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The Black Swan
Book Chapter
Joseph Vogl discusses Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis and the semiotics of speculative finance markets in the introduction to his brilliant interdisciplinary book.
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Behind Marx's 'Hidden Abode': For a Gender-Sensitive Conception of Capitalism
Video
Do struggles against political, environmental, and gender domination also oppose the exploitation of labor?
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All That Is Solid Melts into Air (Again)
Journal Articlefrom
Occasion 7.1 (2014)
Our current system of credit-based capitalism entails not only the material, but the social, moral, and affective estrangement of its subjects. Is there a way out?
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