Refusing and Remythologising Labour in Outlaw Literature The following was presented at the 19th Annual Historical Materialism Conference in London (10 – 13 November, 2022). Reflecting on his youthful involvement with a delinquent gang calling itself ‘The Club of Midnight Gentlemen’, the narrator of Roberto Arlt’s novel The Mad Toy (1926) fondly recalls that moneyContinue reading “Epics of Magical Appropriation”
Author Archives: twltravers
Organising the Present – Part One
Reflections on Political Formalism in Hwang Sok-yong’s At Dusk and Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out In recent years, the prevailing theoretical trends within literary studies have consistently undersold the value and world-making capacities of humanities scholarship. Rather than study the forms through which literature builds and models social relations, critics have been enthralled to aContinue reading “Organising the Present – Part One”
Completing the Unresolved Plot of History
Theory, Politics, and Literature in Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out My article Completing the Unresolved Plot of History: Theory, Politics, and Literature in Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out has been published on Tom Pazderka’s Substack, A Secret Plot. The piece considers the combination of mythology, capital, and furious readers in Piglia’s eerily anachronistic and offbeatContinue reading “Completing the Unresolved Plot of History”
Interludes
The initial reason for setting up this website was that it seemed like a necessary supplement to pursuing a career in academia – especially in the absence of an affiliation with a university and the credibility that may or may not supply. Over the summer of 2022 it became increasingly clear that a career withinContinue reading “Interludes”
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