Contemporary Marxist theory. / Jeff Diamanti, Nicholas Brown, Josh Robinson, and Imre Szeman : a reader ; edited by Andrew Pendakis, Jeff Diamanti, Nicholas Brown, Josh Robinson, and Imre Szeman

This volume brings together works written by international theorists since the fall of the Berlin Wall, showing how today's crisis-ridden global capitalism is making Marxist theory more relevant and necessary than ever. This collection of key texts by prominent and lesser-known thinkers from Latin America, Asia, Africa, America, and Europe showcases an area of scholarly analysis whose impact on academic and popular discourses as well as political action will only grow in the coming years. It reflects today's sense of planetary eco-emergency and a heightened interest in political economy that follows discontentment with the growing inequalities in the West and the unequal nature of development in the "global South." The work is organized thematically, with sections covering the present historical conjuncture, the contemporary shapes of the social, philosophical concepts, theories of culture, and the status of the political today. This new formulation of the unity and nature of contemporary Marxist theory will be an invaluable resource to any humanities and social science student learning about social and political thought and theory.-- Provided by Publisher Contents 5 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction: Marxisms Lost and Found by Andrew Pendakis and Imre Szeman 11 PART ONE: Notes on the Conjuncture 29 1. Capitalistic Systems, Structures, and Processes by Félix Guattari and Eric Alliez 35 2. Rethinking Marx’s Critical Theory by Moishe Postone 51 3. The Impasses of Liberal Productivism by Alan Lipietz 65 4. Recapturing by Paulin Hountondji 77 5. Immaterial Labor by Maurizio Lazzarato 87 6. Women, Land Struggles, and Globalization: An International Perspective by Silvia Federici 103 7. The Idea of a “Chinese Model” by Arif Dirlik 119 PART TWO: Shapes of the Social 133 8. Is there a Neo-Racism? by Étienne Balibar 139 9. Marx after Marxism: A Subaltern Historian’s Perspective by Dipesh Chakrabarty 151 10. The Logic of Gender: On the Separation of Spheres and the Process of Abjection by Maya Gonzalez and Jeanne Neton 159 11. Postmodernism or Class? Yes, Please by Slavoj Žižek 185 12. Communization in the Present Tense by Théorie Communiste 213 13. Patriarchy and Commodity Society: Gender without the Body by Roswitha Scholz 227 PART THREE: Vicissitudes of Truth 243 14. Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value by Gayatri Spivak 249 15. Philosophy as Operation by Pierre Macherey 271 16. What is Transcritique? by Kojin Karatani 285 17. The Idea of Communism by Alain Badiou 305 18. The Kingdom of Philosophy: The Administration of Metanoia by Boris Groys 319 19. Twenty-Five Theses on Philosophy in the Age of Finance Capital by Imre Szeman and Nicholas Brown 331 PART FOUR: Theories of Culture 347 20. Misplaced Ideas: Literature and Society in Late-Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Roberto Schwarz 353 21. Traditionalism and the Quest for an African Literary Aesthetic by Chidi Amuta 367 22. Marxist Literary Theory, Then and Now by Imre Szeman 389 23. The Antinomies of Postmodernity by Fredric Jameson 399 24. Reading Dialectically by Carolyn Lesjak 417 25. Creative Labor by Sarah Brouillette 451 26. The Work of Art in the Age of its Real Subsumption Under Capital by Nicholas Brown 459 PART FIVE: Machinations of the Political 479 27. State Crisis and Popular Power by Álvaro García Linera 485 28. Constituent Power: The Concept of a Crisis by Antonio Negri 497 29. Radical Politics Today by Chantal Mouffe 511 30. On Political Will by Peter Hallward 525 31. Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics by Jodi Dean 543 32. Ten Theses on Politics by Jacques Rancière 565 33. A Contradiction between Matter and Form by Claus Peter Ortlieb 583 34. Misery and Debt: On the Logic and History of Surplus Populations and Surplus Capital by Aaron Benanav and John Clegg (Endnotes) 595 Sources 619 Index 623