Beyond the six novels written by Victor Serge, that make up the two informal trilogies on the ‘cycle of revolution’ [Men in Prison; Birth of Our Power; Conquered City] and the ‘cycle of resistance’ [Midnight in the Century; The Case of Comrade Tulayev; The Long Dusk] there [...]
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What’s Next? Critical Political Economy at the End of Neoliberalism?
Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) mid-term workshop – Call for Papers
Friday 19 – Saturday 20 June 2020
University of Limerick, Ireland
For some, the [...]
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Following my annual practice, I have listed here my “novel” reading for 2019. This is a way of documenting what I get through in a year’s worth of reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling on those airplane journeys from/to Sydney outside of my [...]
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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Moishe Postone, Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Our [...]
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Continuing with my series on Victor Serge and closing the second informal trilogy that comprises the ‘cycle of resistance’, as defined by Richard Greeman, The Long Dusk [1946] is the sixth novel translated into English. The book is extremely rare and hard to come across and one [...]
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Can the general formula of capital be explained in just over 500 words? This was the challenge that Mark Steven set for me in relation to his exciting new book entitled, Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism, with Bloomsbury in 2020. The book has more than thirty chapters with [...]
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How does one begin to evaluate and assess Development and Globalization by David Ruccio, a book of over 400 pages and 16 chapters, spanning output across more than 20 years of publications? As part of a forum on the book just published in Rethinking Marxism – with [...]
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Abstract submission deadline extended to 18 November.
Call for Papers for the 11th Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) workshop organised by the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
How can the frontiers of [...]
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