Contemporary Marxist Theory

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION // MARXISMS LOST AND FOUND PART A: NOTES ON THE CONJUNCTURE INTRODUCTION 1. FELIX GUATTARI AND ERIC ALLIEZ, "CAPITALISTIC SYSTEMS, STRUCTURES, AND PROCESSES" 2. MOISHE POSTONE, "RETHINKING MARX'S CRITICAL THEORY" 3. ALAN LIPIETZ, "THE IMPASSES OF LIBERAL PRODUCTIVISM" 4. PAULIN HOUNTONDJI, "RECAPTURING" 5. MAURIZIO LAZZARATO, "IMMATERIAL LABOR" 6. SILVIA FEDERICI, "WOMEN, LAND STRUGGLES AND GLOBALIZATION: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE" 7. ARIF DIRLIK, "THE IDEA OF A 'CHINESE MODEL'" PART B: SHAPES OF THE SOCIAL INTRODUCTION 8. TIENNE BALIBAR, "IS THERE A NEO-RACISM?" 9. DIPESH CHAKRABARTY, "MARX AFTER MARXISM: A SUBALTERN HISTORIAN'S PERSPECTIVE" 10. MAYA GONZALEZ AND JEANNE NETON (ENDNOTES), "THE LOGIC OF GENDER: ON THE SEPERATION OF SPHERES AND THE PROCESS OF ABJECTION" 11. SLAVOJ ZIZEK, "POSTMODERNISM OR CLASS? YES PLEASE" 12. TH ORIE COMMUNISTE, "COMMUNIZATION IN THE PRESENT TENSE" 13. ROSWITHA SCHOLZ, "PATRIARCHY AND COMMODITY SOCIETY: GENDER WITHOUT THE BODY" PART C: VICISSITUDES OF TRUTH INTRODUCTION 14. GAYATRI SPIVAK, "SCATTERED SPECULATIONS ON THE QUESTION OF VALUE" 15. PIERRE MACHEREY, "PHILOSOPHY AS OPERATION" 16. KOJIN KARATANI, "WHAT IS TRANSCRITIQUE?" 17. ALAIN BADIOU, "THE IDEA OF COMMUNISM" 18. BORIS GROYS, "THE KINGDOM OF PHILSOPHY: THE ADMINISTRATION OF METANOIA" 19. IMRE SZEMAN & NICHOLAS BROWN, "TWENTY-FIVE THESES ON PHILOSOPHY IN THE AGE OF FINANCE CAPITAL" PART D: THEORIES OF CULTURE INTRODUCTION 20. ROBERTO SCHWARZ, "MISPLACED IDEAS: LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRAZIL" 21. CHIDI AMUTA, "TRADITIONALISM AND THE QUEST FOR AN AFRICAN LITERARY AESTHETIC" 22. IMRE SZEMAN, "MARXIST LITERARY THEORY, THEN AND NOW" 23. FREDRIC JAMESON, "THE ANTINOMIES OF POSTMODERNITY" 24. CAROLYN LESJAK, "READING DIALECTICALLY"

Andrew Pendakis is Associate Professor of Theory and Rhetoric at Brock University, Canada. He is co-editor of Contemporary Marxism: A Reader (Bloomsbury, 2014) and the Bloomsbury Companion to Marx (2018).Jeff Diamanti is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has contributed to a number of works on energy culture and is part of the University of Alberta's Petrocultures and Rice University's Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS).