In The Double Shift (2024), Jason Read explores the stranglehold work has over life – the bodily, practical experiences of everyday existence – and consciousness – the mental forms of representation used to make sense of those experiences. For many of us, work is not only the sole (legitimate) means of sustaining our material needsContinue reading “The Double Shift & Dope Thief”
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Organising the Present – Part Two
Reflections on Political Formalism in Hwang Sok-yong’s At Dusk and Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out In the Name of Conrad For Kim Minwoo, the way out of the infinite reconstitution of evermore intensive capitalist social relations is death: one he embarks on with others, who end their worlds together, a faint if unsettling vision ofContinue reading “Organising the Present – Part Two”
Epics of Magical Appropriation
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”
Thomas Travers 