Articles

“To use a metaphor at a time like this would be obscene”: a study of cancer, poetry and metaphor
Cathy Altmann

Burning Down the [Big] House: Sati in Sydney Owenson’s The Missionary
Frances Botkin

Wounded Space: Law, Justice and Violence to the Land
Jennifer Coralie

Seeing Stars: Reading Melancholy and Power at Madame Tussauds through the Lens of Hiroshi Sugimoto
Elizabeth Howie

Concrete Containment in Late Capitalism, Mysticism, the Marquis de Sade, and Phenomenological Anthropology
Apple Igrek

“Edging Back Into Awareness”; How Late it Was, How Late, Form, and the Utopian Demand
Dougal McNeill

Crisis of Memory

Traumatic Memory and Holocaust Testimony: Passing Judgement in Representations of Chaim Rumkowski
Adam Brown

Recreating Postmemory? Children of Holocaust Survivors and the
Journey to Auschwitz
Esther Jilovsky

Blurring the Boundaries: History, Memory and Imagination in the Works of W G Sebald
Diane Molloy

Russian Aesthetics under Capitalism

Russian Aesthetics under Capitalism: An Introduction — Yulia Tikhonova

Why I Am a Marxist — Vladislav Sofronov

The Theory of Marxism: Questions and Answers — Vladislav Sofronov; Fredric Jameson; Jack Amariglio; Yahya M. Madra

The Karl Marx School of the English Language — David Riff

You Can’t Anticipate Explosions: Jacques Rancière in Conversation with Chto Delat — Jacques Rancière; Artemy Magun; Dmitry Vilensky; Alexandr Skidan

Profanation of the Profane, or, Giorgio Agamben on the Moscow Biennale — Alexei Penzin

The Story of Angry Sandwich People, or, In Praise of Dialectics — David Riff; Dmitry Vilensky

Legally Soviet: A Conversation — Yevgeniy Fiks; Olga Kopenkina

Foucault, Marxism, and the Cuban Revolution: Historical and Contemporary Reflections — Sam Binkley; Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

Foucault and the “New Man”: Conversations on Foucault in Cuba — Sam Binkley; Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

Massive Change: The Exhibit as Apology for “New Capitalism” — Lauren Langman

From Principle to Context: Marx versus Nozick and Rawls on Distributive Justice — Xiaoping Wei

Development, Capitalism, and Socialism: A Marxian Encounter with Rabindranath Tagore’s Ideas on the Cooperative Principle — Anjan Chakrabarti; Anup Kumar Dhar

The conference.

Via Lenin’s Tomb

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All Aboard for Copenhagen! — Joel Kovel

Ecosocialism, Global Justice, and Climate Change — Joel Kovel

The Liberal Foundations of Environmentalism: Revisiting the Rockefeller-Ford Connection — Michael Barker

Pondering Another Possible World — Robert Nichols

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Metaphor: James Lovelock’s Revenge of Gaia — John Clark

Art and Environmentalist Practice — Kavita Philip

Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India and the Chief Ministers of the States of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal, Tripura and West Bengal — Kavita Philip

History and Hope from the Present Moment: Peter McLaren and Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy — Samuel Day Fassbinder

Beyond the Bowers-McLaren Debate: The Importance of Studying the Rest of Nature in Forming Alternative Curricula — Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro

Ecofeminist Cosmology in Practice: Genesis Farm and the Embodiment of Sustainable Solutions — Phoebe C. Godfrey

Reclaiming the Good Life (Now!) — Jane Hindley

As most of you know, there has been an interesting exchange between Zizek and Critchley.

Zizek published a review of Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance. The review was reproduced this past february in Harpers. (Link to the review.)

Critchley has answered Zizek, in the May issue. Link to his answered, fortunately reproduced on the blogosphere.

Marx:A Clear Guide

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When was 9/11? Philosophy and the terror of futurity — Stella Gaon
    
Foucault's Kantian critique: Philosophy and the present — Christina Hendricks

Deliberation interrupted: Confronting Jürgen Habermas with Claude Lefort — Stefan Rummens

Collapsing categories: Fraser on economy, culture and justice — Chris Armstrong

Religion and capitalism: Weber, Marx and the materialist controversy — Juan Manuel Forte

Review essay: Postphenomenology: 'Festschrift' for Don Ihde (Under consideration: Evan Selinger's Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde) — Søren Riis

RETHINKING MARXISM
20th Anniversary Events

20th Anniversary Issue of Rethinking Marxism — Volume 20, Issue 4 (October 2008)

The special issue commemorating 20 years of RM’s publication will include contributions from Etienne Balibar, Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff, Kojin Karatani, J. K. Gibson-Graham, Antonio Negri, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak & Benjamin Baer, Susan Jahoda & Jesal Kapadia. The issue will also contain a special interview with the past and present editors, in which they discuss some of the ideas and issues shaping both the emergence and trajectory of the journal.

Special sessions will be held at each of the following four conferences addressing the status of Marxism in contemporary politics, and the particular role of the journal Rethinking Marxism:

Left Forum — Cooper Union, New York City (14-16 March 2008)

“Rethinking Marxism and the Future of Global Struggles: Class Theory, Political Subjects, and Contemporary Capitalism.”
The session’s participants will be: David Harvey, Joseph Buttigieg, Richard Wolff, Maliha Safri, Graham Cassano, and David F. Ruccio Routledge and RM will also sponsor a 20th anniversary reception at the conference.

Surplus/Excess — University of California-Riverside (4-5 April 2008)

“Exceedance: 20 Years of Rethinking Marxism,”
The session’s participants will be Jack Amariglio, Joseph Childers, Philip Kozel, Susan Jahoda, Erik Olsen, and David F. Ruccio
Routledge and RM will also sponsor a 20th anniversary reception at the conference.
Further Information (http://rethinkingmarxism.org/cms/node/1072)

Cultural Studies Association — (22-24 May 2008)

“Culture/Economy: 20 Years of Rethinking Marxism,” — The session’s participants will be: S. Charusheela, Susan Jahoda, Jesal Kapadia, Yahya Madra, Richard Wolff, Maliha Safri, and Joseph Childers.

AESA Conference/Celebration — (September 2008,TBA)
The Association for Economic and Social Analysis will sponsor a conference in Amherst, MA celebrating 20 years of Rethinking Marxism.

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Amilcar Cabral: National Liberation as the Basis for Africa’s Renaissances — Maurice Taonezvi Vambe; Abebe Zegeye

The Sources for Gramsci’s Concept of Hegemony — Derek Boothman

No More Strike Anywhere p. 217 — Benjamin Gerdes; Jennifer Hayshida

Marxism and Antiracism: Rethinking the Politics of Difference — Abigail B. Bakan

Money Is Time: The Monetary Expression of Value in Marx’s Theory of Value — David Kristjanson-Gural

The Open Secret of Real Abstraction — Alberto Toscano

Knowledge and Control: A Marxian Perspective on the Productivity Paradox of Information Technology — Robert Hutchinson

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On Bookchin’s Social Ecology and its Contributions to Social Movements — Brian Tokar

Post-Industrial Possibilities and Urban Social Ecologies: Bookchin’s Legacy — Damian F. White

Domesticating the Dialectic: A Critique of Bookchin’s Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics — John Clark

Evolution: The Public’s Problem, and the Scientists’ — Stuart A. Newman

On Marxism, Socialism, and Ecofeminism: Continuing the Dialogue — Victor Wallis

On the Birthmarks of the Old Society: A Reflection on the Exchange between Maria Mies and Victor Wallis — Nicholas Faraclas

Retrieving the Thread — Victor Wallis

The Shock of the New? Disaster and Dystopia — Andy Storey

Recyclers Miss the Point — Maarten de Kadt

Celebrating the Life of Gabriela Ngirmang of Palau (Belau)– Zohl dé Ishtar