#peter marcuse

[howieabel]

"The idea of critical theory, in the context of the history of marxism, is usually associated with the Frankfurt School for Social Research. In terms of its reception, critical theory is often reduced to the cultural pessimism associated with works such as Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) and Marcuse’s One-dimensional Man (1964). The Frankfurt School achieved much else beside (Wiggershaus 1994), but its main theses did indeed include this idea of modernity as entrapment, Marx plus Weber, as it were in the early period spirit of Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Critical theory can indeed be viewed as Marx plus Weber, commodification plus rationalization. Two earlier intellectual links helped to make this bond, well before Dialectic of Enlightenment, and long before critical theory became a kind of household word for radicals." - Peter Beilharz, "The Marxist Legacy", in Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory (2011) edited by Gerard Delanty and Stephen P. Turner

[fatehbaz]

The impetus [...] was a desire to pick up [...] with ‘those historical alternatives’ that ‘haunt a given society’, as Herbert Marcuse wrote; to find the place where, as Patricia Williams put it, our ‘longings are exiled.’ [...] [T]o challenge the twinned triumphalism of the [...] ‘end of history’ claim and the [...] claim that the political universe had closed shut [after the 1960s]. [...]

[T]he rejectionist epithet: ‘That’s not realistic, that’s utopian!’ [...]

[A] phrase which is often used as a bludgeon to manage proposals, people and actions that have gone too far out of bounds. [...] There were good reasons to distrust and even dismiss the term ‘utopian’, although in my opinion, the main problem was not idealism and futurism, but rather the term’s deeply racialised historiography and narrow set of [...] references. To put it bluntly, the extant meaning of the term treated the [...] colonialism that founded the so-called New World as a successful utopian enterprise, while absenting entirely what Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker call the ‘many-headed hydra’ of the seventeenth-century ‘revolutionary Atlantic’ – those slaves, maids, prisoners, pirates, sailors, heretics, Indigenous peoples, commoners and others who challenged the making of the modern world capitalist system.

There was another kind of utopianism entailed by slaves running away, marronage, piracy, heresy, vagabondage, soldier desertion, and other illegible or discredited forms of escape, resistance, opposition and alternative ways of life that continued, of course, to challenge the modern racial capitalist system over time. This ‘other’ utopianism lends to the term ‘utopian’ a very different meaning – one rooted much more in the past and the present than in an unrealistic future – and a very different notion of politics – one rooted in ongoing social struggles, in various forms of nonparticipation, and in an autonomous politics hostile or indifferent to seizing state power. [...]

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In this context of enhanced militarism and securitisation, the ongoing redistribution of resources from social property to private property has led to more widespread social abandonment and more entrenched inequalities [...].

At the same time, there is widespread, daily, active and open political opposition to all this, at the scale at which people can contest it: protecting this group of migrants from arrest, confinement and deportation; organising this strike among teachers in this city; defending this territory from oil drilling; filing lawsuits against a police department and so on; gathering in public to swear, shout, shake fists, confront the inevitably helmeted riot police. There is also widespread, daily, active, infrapolitical and even secret political opposition, which needs and wants to remain hidden. And there are also so many people, more and more in the Western wealthy countries, looking for ways to think and live on different – better terms – and doing it in small ways, whether in local collectives, or in extended family units, with illegal housing and electricity, alternative currencies, in cities and on old tribal lands.

What will happen we don’t know, of course. But as more people become unable to participate in the existing economic and governing systems, they must find another way. [...] [A] standpoint and a mindset for living on better terms than we’re offered; for living as if you had the necessity and the freedom to do so; for living in the acknowledgement, that despite the overwhelming power of all the systems of domination which are trying to kill us, they never quite become us. [...]

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It thus exists in a particular imaginative space and temporality. This temporality is not the conventional one of utopian literature – ‘what might be’ – nor is it quite the conditional past (‘what could have been’) [...]. [I]n the temporality of what was almost or not quite yet; or what was present and at the same time yet to come. It tries to represent the traces of the remains of the past, or the future yet to come, as if in the present. [...]

The Chimurenga Library and Pan African Space Station put the question this way: ‘Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative?’ What would happen if we understood that what haunts from the past are precisely all those aspirations and actions – small and large, individual and collective – that oppose racial capitalism and empire and live actively other than on those terms of order. These living haunts are part of the past the present hasn’t caught up with yet. This is what I mean by the idea of the utopian margins – an alternate civilisation crossing time and place, accumulating a kind of cultural and political surplus, as Bloch called it. Julius Scott called it ‘the common wind.’

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Words of Avery F. Gordon. As interviewed by Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah. “Revolutionary Feminisms: Avery F. Gordon.” As transcribed and published online in the Blog section of Verso Books. 2 September 2020. [Some paragraph breaks and contractions added by me.]

#i know ive shared similar words from her before because she resuses some of these same phrases in at least 3 separate places #but it was in this interview where she summed it up in a way that i most enjoyed #abolition #ecology #imperial #colonial

[drzito]

Las 242 peliculas que he visto en 2023 (parte 1)

Tarzan y su compañera (Cedric Gibbons, 1934).

2. El fantasma y la Sra Muir (Joseph L Mankiewicz, 1947)

3. Odio entre hermanos (Joseph L Mankiewicz, 1949)

4. Testigo accidental (Richard Fleischer, 1952)

5. El rastro de la pantera (William A Wellman, 1954)

6. El tigre dormido (Joseph Losey, 1954)

7. El quinteto de la muerte (Alexander McKendrick, 1955)

8. 40 pistolas (Samuel Fuller, 1957)

9. La maldición de Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1957)

10. Ocho horas de terror (Seijun Suzuki, 1957)

11. The Trollenberg terror (Quentin Lawrence, 1958)

12. La Venganza (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1958)

13. Un golpe de gracia (Jack Arnold, 1959)

14. A todo riesgo (Claude Sautet, 1960)

15. La evasion (Jacques Becker, 1960)

16. El sabor del miedo (Seth Holt, 1961)

17. Detective bureau 2 3. Go to hell bastards! (Seijun Suzuki, 1963)

18. The white tiger tattoo (Seijun Suzuki, 1965)

19. A traves del huracan (Monte Hellman, 1966)

20. El Tiroteo (Monte Hellman, 1966)

21. La soltera retozona (Silvio Narizzano, 1966)

22. Dimension 5 (Franklin Adreon, 1966)

23. Los Productores (Mel Brooks, 1967)

24. Un hombre (Martin Ritt, 1967)

25. Sebastian (David Greene, 1968)

26. El Bastardo (Duccio Tessari, 1968)

27. El lagarto negro (Kinji Fukasaku, 1968)

28. La louve solitaire (Edouard Logereau, 1968)

29. Aquel dia frio en el parque (Robert Altman, 1969)

30. Corazones en fuga (Michael Powell, 1969)

31. La bestia ciega (Yasuzo Masumura, 1969).

32. El bosque del lobo (Pedro Olea, 1970)

33. El grito del fantasma (Gordon Hessler, 1970)

34. Drácula y las mellizas (John Hough, 1971).

35. ¡Que viene Valdez! (Edwin Sherin, 1971)

36. Sangre en la tumba de la momia (Seth Holt, 1971)

37. El Otro (Robert Mulligan, 1972)

38. Hermanas (Brian de Palma, 1972)

39. Imagenes (Robert Altman, 1972)

40. Morgiana (Juraj Herz, 1972)

41. El ataque de los muertos sin ojos (Amando de Ossorio, 1973)

42. El programa final (Robert Fuest, 1973)

43. Flor de santidad (Adolfo Marsillach, 1973)

44. Lemora, un cuento sobrenatural (Richard Blackburn, 1973)

45. Messiah of Evil (Willard Huyck y Gloria Katz, 1973)

46. Una vela para el diablo (Eugenio Martin, 1973).

47. Daguerrotipos (Agnes Varda, 1975)

48. La noche de las gaviotas (Armando de Ossorio, 1975)

49. Picnic en Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)

50. El otro Sr Klein (Joseph Losey, 1976)

51. Terror al anochecer (Charles B Pierce, 1976)

52. El desafio del bufalo blanco (J Lee Thompson, 1977)

53. Largo fin de semana (Colin Eggleston, 1978)

54. El grito (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978)

55. Los ojos del bosque (John Hough, 1980)

56. Alison’s birthday (Ian Coughlan, 1981)

57. Muertos y enterrados (Gary Sherman, 1981)

58. Wilczyca (Marek Piestrak, 1983)

59. En compañia de lobos (Neil Jordan, 1984).

60. Sangre Facil (Joel Coen, 1984)

61. Sole survivor: Unico superviviente (Thom Eberhardt, 1984)

62. Tasio (Montxo Armendariz, 1984)

63. El tren del infierno (Andréi Konchalovski, 1985)

64. El corazon del angel (Alan Parker, 1987)

65. Jovenes Ocultos (Joel Schumacher, 1987)

66. La chaqueta metalica (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)

67. El fluir de las lagrimas (Won Kar Wai, 1988)

68. Ensalada de gemelas (Jim Abrahams, 1988)

69. Kadaicha, la piedra de la muerte (James Bogle, 1988)

70. Pacto de Sangre (Stan Winston, 1988)

71. Avalon (Barry Levinson, 1990).

72. Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990)

73. La Teranyina (Antoni Verdaguer, 1990)

74. La Tutora (William Friedkin, 1990)

75. Morir Todavia (Kenneth Branagh, 1990)

76. La jungla de cristal 2 (Renny Harlin, 1990)

77. Solo en casa (Chris Columbus, 1990)

78. Alien 3 (David Fincher, 1992)

79. Mi novia es un zombi (Michele Soavi, 1994)

80. Nadja (Michael Almereyda, 1994)

81. Esto (no) es un secuestro (Ted Demme, 1994)

82. Dos Policias Rebeldes (Michael Bay, 1995)

83. El demonio vestido de azul (Carl Franklin, 1995)

84. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)

85. Jovenes y brujas (Andrew Fleming, 1996)

86. Agarrame esos fantasmas (Peter Jackson, 1996)

87. Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise (Paul Alexander Juutilainen, 1996).

88. La Roca (Michael Bay, 1996)

89. Tierra (Julio Medem, 1996)

90. 99.9. La frecuencia del terror (Agusti Villaronga, 1997)

91. Fallen (Gregory Hoblit, 1998)

92. Un plan sencillo (Sam Raimi, 1998)

93. El halcon ingles (Steven Soderbergh, 1999).

94. Ilusiones de un mentiroso (Peter Kassovitz. 1999)

95. Flores de otro mundo (Iciar Bollain, 1999)

96. Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999)

97. Wisconsin Death Trip (James Marsh, 1999)

98. Dagon: La secta del mar (Stuart Gordon, 2001)

99. Escalofrio (Bill Paxton, 2001)

100. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin, 2002)

101. 2 hermanas (Jee-Woon Kim, 2003)

102. Dos policias rebeldes II (Michael Bay, 2003)

103. Los Angeles Play Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)

104. El reportero: La leyenda de Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)

105. El Septimo Dia (Carlos Saura, 2004)

106. La vida que te espera (Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, 2004)

107. Los Edukadores (Hans Weingartner, 2004)

108. Misteriosa obsesion (Joseph Ruben, 2004)

109. Yo, Robot (Alex Proyas, 2004)

110. Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005)

111. Wolf Creek (Greg McLean, 2005)

112. Bajo cero (Frank Marshall, 2006)

113. El Inadaptado (Jens Lien, 2006)

114. Sheitan (Kim Chapiron, 2006)

115. The last winter (Larry Fessenden, 2006)

116. 30 dias de oscuridad (David Slade, 2007)

117. Borderland. Al otro lado de la frontera (Zev Berman, 2007)

118. Diarios de la calle (Richard LaGravenese, 2007)

119. Frontera(s) (Xavier Gens, 2007)

120. Hostel 2 (Eli Roth, 2007)

121. Water Lilies (Celine Sciamma, 2007)

[moleshow]

my main impression of herbert marcuse is that his works got in the way when i was trying to put together a peter marcuse bibliography

[driftwork]

names, mostly surnames (1)

let me apologise for this partial list of names in the library,  titles available on request...

, Adorno, horkheimer, anderson, aristotle, greta adorno, marcuse, agamben, acampora and acampora, althussar, lajac kovacic, eric alliez, marc auge,  attali, francis bacon (16th c), aries, aries and bejin, alain badiou, beckett, hallward, barnes, bachelard, bahktin, volshinov, baudrillard, barthes, john beattie, medvedev, henri bergson, Jacques Bidet, berkman, zybmunt bauman, burgin, baugh, sam  butler, ulrich beck, andrew benjamin and peter osbourne, walter benjamin, ernest bloch, blanchot,  bruzins,  bonnet,  karin bojs,  bourdieu,  j.d. bernal, goldsmith,  benveniste, braidotti,  brecht,  burch, victor serge, andre breton, judith butler, malcolm bull, stanley cohen, john berger, etienne balibar, david bohm, gans blumenberg, martin buber, christopher caudwell, micel callon, albert camus, agnes callard,  castoridis, claudio celis bueno, carchedi and roberts, Marisol de la cadena,  mario blaser, nancy cartwright, manual castells, mark  currie, collingwood, canguilhem, mario corti, stuart hall, andrew lowe, paul willis, coyne, stefan collini, varbara cassin, helene cixous, coward and ellis, clastres, carr, cioren,  irving copi, cassirer, carter and willians, margeret cohen,  Francoise dastur, guy debord, agnes martin,  michele bernstein, alice, lorraine dastun, debaise, Gilles Deleuze, deleuze and gattari, guattari, parnet, iain mackenzie, bignall, stivale, holland, smith, james williams, zourabichvili, paul patton, kerslake,  schuster, bogue, bryant,  anne sauvagnargues, hanjo berresen, frida beckman, johnson, gulliarme and hughes, valentine moulard-leonard, desai,  dosse, duttman, d’amico,  benoit peters, derrida, hinca zarifopol-johnston, sean gaston,  discourse, mark poster, foucault,  steve fuller, markus gabrial, rosenbergm  milchamn, colin jones,  van fraasen,  fekete,  vilem flusser, flahault, heri focillon, rudi visker, ernst fischer,  fink, faye, fuller, fiho, marco bollo, hans magnus enxensberger, leen de bolle, canetti, ilya enrenberg,  thuan, sebastion peake, mervyn peake, robert henderson, reimann, roth,  bae suah,  yabouza, marco bellatin, cartarescu, nick harkaway, chris norris, deLanda, regis debray, pattern and doniger,  soame jynens, bernard williams, descartes, anne dufourmanteille, michelle le doeuff, de certaeu , deligny, Georges Dumezil, dumenil and levy,  bernard edelman, victorverlich, berio, arendt, amy allen, de beauvior,hiroka azumi,  bedau and humphreys,  beuad,  georges bataille, caspar  henderson,  chris innes,  yevgeny zamyatin,  louis aragon, italo calvino, pierre guirard,  trustan garcia, rene girard, paul gilroy, michal gardner,  andre gorz, jurgan gabermas, martin gagglund, beatrice hannssen, jean hyppolyte, axel honneth, zizek and crickett, stephen heath,  calentin groebner, j.b.s. haldane,  ian hacking,  david hakken,  hallward and oekken,  haug, harman, latour, arnold hauser, hegel, pippin, pinksrd, michel henry, louis hjelmslev,  gilbert hardin, alice jardine, karl jaspers, suzzane kirkbright, david hume,  thomas hobbes, barry hindus, paul hirst, hindess and hirst, wrrner hamacher,  bertrand gille,  julien huxley, halavais, irigaray, ted honderich, julia kristeva, leibnitz, d lecourt,  lazzaroto, kluge and negt, alexander kluge, sarah kofman, alexandre kojeve,  kolozoya, keynes,  richard kangston, ben lehman, kant,  francous jullien, fred hameson, sntonio rabucchi, jaeggi, steve lanierjones, tim jackson,  jakobson,   joeseph needham, arne de boever,  marx and engels, karl marx, frederick engels, heinrich,  McLellen , maturana and varuna,  lem, lordon, jean jacques-lecercle,  malabou,  marazzi,  heiner muller,  mary midgley, armand matterlart, ariel dorfman, matakovsky, nacneice, lucid,  victor margolis, narco lippi,  glen mazis, nair,  william morris,  nabis,  jean luc nancy,  geoffrey nash,  antonio negri,  negri and hardt, hardt, keith ansell pearson, pettman, william ruddiman, rheinberger, andre orlean, v.i. vernadsky,  rodchenko,  john willet, tarkovsky, william empson,  michel serres,  virillio, semiotexte, helmut heiseenbuttel,  plessner, pechaux, raunig, retort,  saito,  serres, dolphin, maria assad, spinoza,  bernard sharratt, isabelle stengers,  viktor shklovsky,  t. todorov,  enzo traverso, mario tronti,  todes, ivan pavlov,  whitehead, frank trentmann, trubetzkoy, rodowink, widderman, karl wittfogel, peter handke, olivier rolin, pavese,  robert walser, petr kral, von arnim,  sir john mennis,  ladies cabinet,  samuel johnson, edmund spenser,  efy poppy, yoko ogawa, machado,  kaurence durrell,  brigid brophy,  a. betram chandler, maria gabriella llansol, fowler,  ransmayr,  novick, llewellyn,  brennan, sean carroll,  julien rios, pintor, wraxall,  jaccottet, tabucchi,  iain banks, glasstone,  clarice lispector,  murakami, ludmilla petrushevskaya,  motoya, bachmann, lindqvist,  uwe johnson, einear macbride,  szentkuthy,  vladislavic, nanguel,  mathias enard,  chris tomas, jonathan meades,  armo schmidt, charles yu, micheal sorkin, vilas- matas, varesi, peter weiss,  stephenson, paul legrande,  virginie despentes, pessoa,  brin,  furst, gunter trass, umberto eco, reid, paul,klee, mario levero, hearn, judith schalansky, moorhead,  margert walters, rodchenko and popova, david king, alisdair gray, burroughs, ben fine, paul hirst, hindess,  kapuscinski, tchaikovsky,  brooke-rose, david hoon kim, helms,  mahfouz, ardret,  felipe fernandez-armesto,  young and tagomon,  aronson,  bonneuil and  fressoz, h.s. bennett, amy allen, bruckner brown, honegger, bernhard,  warren miller, albert thelen,  margoy bennett, rose macauley,  nenjamin peret, sax rohmer, angeliki, bostrom, phillip ball, the invisible commitee, bataille and leiris,  gregory bateson, michelle barrett and mary mcintosh, bardini, bugin, mcdonald, kaplan, buck-moores,  chesterman and lipman,  berman,  cicero, chanan,  chatelet,  helene cixous, iain cha,bers,  smirgel, norman clark, caird, camus,  clayre, chomsky, critchley,  curry,  swingewood,  luigi luca cavelli-sforza,  clark, esposito, doerner,  de duve, alexander dovzhenko, donzelot,  dennet, doyle, burkheim, de camp,  darwin,  dawkins,  didi-huberman, dundar, george dyson, berard deleuze, evo, barbara ehrenrich,  edwards,  e isenstein, ebeking, economy and society, esposito,  frederick gross,  david edgeerton,  douglas,  paul,feyerband,  jerry fodor,  gorrdiener,  tom forester, korsgaard,  fink,  floridi, elizabeth groscz, pierre francastel,  jane jacobs,  francois laplantinee,  gould,  galloway, goux,  godel, grouys, genette,  gil, kahloo, giddens,  martin gardner,  gilbert and dubar, hobbes,  herve, golinski, grotowski, glieck,  hayles, heidegger, huxley, eric hobsbawn, jean-louis hippolyte,  phillip hoare, tim jordan,  david harvey, hawking, hoggart,  rosemary jackson,  myerson,  mary jacobus, fox keller, illich,  sarah fofman, sylvia harvey, john holloway, han,  jaspers, yuk hui,  pierre hadot, carl gardner,  william james, bell hooks,  edmond jabes,  kierkegaard, alexander keen, kropotkin, tracy kidder,  mithen, kothari and mehta, lind,  c. joad,  bart kosko, kathy myers,  kaplan,  luce irigaraay, patrick ke iller, kittler,  catherine belsey,  kmar,  klossowski, holmes, kant, stanton,  ernesto laclau, jenkins, la mouffe,  walter john williams, adam greenfield, susan greenfield, paul auster, viet nguyen, jeremy nicholson,  andy weir, fred jameson,  lacoue-labarthe,  bede,  jane gallop, lacan,  wilden,  willy ley,  henri lefebvre, rob sheilds,  sandra laugier, micheal lowy, barry levinson, sylvain lazurus, lousardo, leopardo, jean-francois lyotard, jones,  lewontin,  steve levy,  alice in genderland,  laing, lanier, lakatos, laurelle, luxemburg,  lukacs, jarsh,  james lovelock, ideologu and consciousness, economy and society, screen, deleuze studies, deleuze and guattari studies,  bruno latour, david lapoujade,  stephen law, primo levi,  levi-strauss,  emmanuel levinas,  viktor schonberger, pierre levy, gustav landaur,  robin le poidevin,  les levidow, lautman, david cooper,  serge leclaire, catherine malabou, karl kautsky, alice meynall,  j.s. mill, montainge,  elaine miller, rosa levine-meyer, jean luc marion, henri lefebrve,  lipovetsky, terry lovell,  niklas luhmann,  richard may, machiavelli, richard mabey, john mullzrkey,  meyerhold, edward braun,  magri,  murray, nathanial lichfield, noelle mcafee,  hans meyer,  ouspensky, lucretius, asa briggs, william morris, christian metz, laura mulvey, len masterman,  karl mannheim, louis marin, alaister reynolds,  antonio  munoz molina,  FRAZER,  arno schmidt,  dinae waldman,  mark rothko, cornwall, micheal snow, sophie henaff, scarlett thomas,  matuszewski, lillya brik,  rosamond lehman , morris and o’conner,  nina bawden, cora sandel, delafield, storm jameson,  lovi , rachel ferguson,  stevie smith, pat barker, miles franklin, fay weldon,  crista wolff, grace paley, v. woolf, naomi mitchinson, sheila rowbotham,  e, somerville and v ross, sander marai,  jose  saramago,  strugatsky, jean echenoz, mark robso,  vladimir Vernadsky,  chris marker, Kim Stanley Robinson,  mario leverdo,  r.a. lafferty, martin bax, mcaulay, tatyana tolstaya,  colinn kapp,  jonathan meades,  franco fortini,  sam delany, philip e high, h.g. adler, feng menglong,  adam thorpe,  peeter nadas,  sam butler, narnold silver,  deren,  joanna moorhead, leonara carrington,  de waal,  hartt, botticelli,  charbonneau, casco pratolini,  murakami, aldiss,  guidomorselli, ludmilla petrushevskaya, ,schulz,  de andrade, yasushi. inoue, renoir,  amelie  nothomb,  ken liu,  prynne,  ANTIONE VOLODINE, luc brasso,  angela greene,  dorothea tanning,  eric chevillard,  margot bennett w.e. johns, conan doyle,  samuel johnson,  herge,  coutine-denamy, sterling, roubaud,  sloan, meiville,  delarivier manley, andre norton, perec, edward upward, tom mcCarthy,  magrinya,  stross,  eco, godden,  malcolm lowry,  derekmiller,  ismail kadare,  scott lynch, chris fowler, perter newman,  suzzana clarke,  paretky, juliscz balicki,  stanislaw maykowski, rajaniemi, william morris, c.k. crow,  ueys,  oldenburg,  mssrc chwmot,  will pryce,  munroe,  brnabas and kindersley, tromans,   lem, zelazny,  mitchinson, harry Harrison,  konstantin tsiolkovsky,  flammerion,  harrison, arthur c clarke, carpenter, john brunner,  anhony powell,  ted white, sheckley,  kristof, kempowski, shingo,  angelica groodischer,  rolin,  galeanom  dobin,  richard holloway,  pohl and kornbulth,  e.r. eddison,  ken macleodm  aldiss,  dave hutchinson,  alfred bester, budrys,  pynchon,  kurkov,  wisniewski_snerg, , kenji miyazawa,  dante,  laidlaw,  paek nam_nyong, maspero, colohouquon, hernandez,      christina hesselholdt, claude simon, bulgaakov,  simak,  verissimo,  sorokin,  sarraute,  prevert,  celan, bachmann,  mervin peake,  olaf stapledon,  sa rohmer,  robert musil,  le clezio,  jeremy cooper,  zambra,  giorgio de chirico,  mjax frisch,  gawron,  daumal,  tomzza,  canetti,  framcois maspero,  de quincy, defoe, green,, greene, marani,  bellatin,  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#names #ideology and discourse #everyday practices

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https://archive.org/details/race_traitor_13-14

SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE: Surrealism in the USA: The Complete Contents of the Suppressed Surrealist Issue of "Socialist Review" - Guest Editor Ron Sakolsky. Editorial: A Note to the Readers of RACE TRAITOR; Ron Sakolsky: Return of the Suppressed, Introduction - Surrealist Subversion in Chicago; Franklin Rosemont: Surrealism, Poetry, & Politics; Danny Postel: An Interview With Penelope Rosemont; David Roediger: Radical HIstory Without Surrealism; Anne Olson: The marvelous Against the Sacred; Paul Garon: Houston Baker's Blues Position; Joseph Jablonski: Their Millenium and Ours; Mari Jo Marchnight: Surrealism and Women's Liberation; Penelope Rosemont: Ody Saban - Surrealist and Outsider; Don LaCoss: Conflicting Views of Surrealism - Vaneigem vs. Kelley; Robin D.G. Kelley: A New Look at the Communist Manifesto; FROM THE SIXTIES TO THE NEW MILLENIUM: Nancy Joyce Peters: Long Live the Living! Les Blank's Always for Pleasure; Paul Buhle: Herbert Marcuse, Surrealism, & Us; Herert Marcuse: Interview With the Surrealist Journal L'Archibras; Joseph jablonski: Surrealist Implications of Chance; Philip Lamantia & Nancy Joyce Peters: Surrealism Today & Tomorrow; Robert Green: Against the Art Racket; The Chicago Surrealist Group: Maxwell Street Forevr! The Surrealist MOvement in the United States: Who Needs the WTO? Franklin Rosemont: The Only Game in Town: Surrealism and Play; SURREALIST GAMES: If He/She Were a Flower; Latent News; The Exquisite Corpse; Time-Travelers' Potlatch; INQUIRY: SURREALIST SUBVERSION IN EVERYDAY LIFE: Franklin Rosemont & Paul Garon: The Role of Inquiriy in Surrealist Research;

#surrealism #surreal #society

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Rich Pezzullo

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Now that we have so many people in therapy, could we look at the foundations of the "science" of psychotherapy?

Marxists and leftist thinkers have adopted and incorporated Freudian theories into their frameworks to promote social change.

This intersection of Marxism and Freudianism is often referred to as "Freudo-Marxism" or "Marxist psychoanalysis."

Freud wrote "Civilization and Its Discontents" in 1929 and it was first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("The Uneasiness in Civilization").

Freud explores what he considers the important clash between the desire for individuality and the expectations of society. The book is considered one of Freud's most important and widely read works, and was described in 1989 by historian Peter Gay as one of the most influential and studied books in the field of modern psychology.

While Freud's and Marx's theories originated from different disciplines, some scholars and activists sought to combine elements of both to analyze social phenomena and advocate for transformative social and psychological practices.

Freudo-Marxists recognized that psychological factors and individual subjectivity play a role in shaping social relations and structures.

They sought to explore how capitalist societies produce particular forms of subjectivity, desires, and psychological alienation.

By integrating Freudian concepts, such as repression, unconscious desires, and the impact of early childhood experiences, with Marxist analyses of economic exploitation and social class, they aimed to develop a more comprehensive understanding of human experience within oppressive systems.

Some key figures associated with Freudo-Marxism include Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Frantz Fanon.

Reich, for example, examined the relationship between sexual repression and authoritarianism, arguing that sexual liberation and personal transformation were essential for overcoming oppressive social systems.

Fromm explored the social and psychological implications of capitalism and consumerism, emphasizing the importance of developing an authentic and non-alienated sense of self.

These Founding Father of Psychology sought to bridge the gap between individual psychology and social structures, combining insights from Freudian psychoanalysis with Marxist theories of capitalism and class struggle.

Their aim was to explain how psychological dynamics are shaped by social and economic forces, and how these dynamics can be transformed to achieve a more egalitarian and liberated society.

Freudo-Marxism represents a diverse range of perspectives and interpretations, and not all Marxists or leftist thinkers endorse or incorporate Freudian theories. However, the integration of Freudian ideas into Marxist analysis has influenced certain strands of critical theory, cultural studies, and social psychology.

We give them far too much influence over our education and mental health.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/24/sales-of-newly-built-homes-fall-16percent-in-april-as-prices-soar.html

“The housing question is embedded within the structures of class society. Posing the housing question today means uncovering the connections between societal power and the residential experience. It means asking who and what housing is for, who controls it, who it empowers, who it oppresses. It means questioning the function of housing within globalised neoliberal capitalism.”

David Madden and Peter Marcuse. "The Residential is Political." The Right to the City: A Verso Report.

#housing under capitalism

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In remembrance of legends whose life works will inform and inspire for generations to come...

#In These Times

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from In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis, authors David Madden and Peter Marcuse

#david madden #peter marcuse #politics #housing #text #literature #housing crisis #inequality #class #capitalism #engels

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Whether we dwell in caves or in condominiums, housing is a universal human practice. Home is an extension and expression of our capacity to create. It takes an infinite variety of forms, but making a home for ourselves is an essential and universal activity. Residential alienation is what happens when a capitalist class captures the housing process and exploits it for its own ends. Hyper-commodified housing is alienated housing. It is dominated by people who see dwellings through the eyes of an investor interested in profit or a technocrat interested in control, instead of seeing it as a social right. Commodified dwelling space is not an expression of the residential needs of those who live in it. It is determined by landlords, sublessors, management companies, real estate developers, banks, bailiffs, and bureaucrats–by the ensemble of social roles and institutions that prop up the seemingly inhuman laws of housing markets in contemporary society.

David Madden & Peter Marcuse, In Defense of Housing: The Politics Of Crisis

#quote #in defense of housing #david madden #peter marcuse #housing #housing crisis #affordable housing #universal housing #housing for all #decommodification #capitalism #market urbanism #urbanism #socialism #marxism #alienation #social housing #public housing #non-market housing #decommodified housing

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“The reign of such a one-dimensional reality does not mean that materialism rules, and that the spiritual, metaphysical, and bohemian occupations are petering out. On the contrary, there is a great deal of “Worship together this week,” “Why not try God,” Zen, existentialism, and beat ways of life, etc. But such modes of protest and transcendence are no longer contradictory to the status quo and no longer negative. They are rather the ceremonial part of practical behaviorism, its harmless negation, and are quickly digested by the status quo as part of its healthy diet.” ― Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

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Capitalism’s Housing Crisis

George Martin Fell Brown | May 21st 2017 | Socialist Alternative Big business is increasingly taking over the housing sector – social rented as well as private ownership. The results have been devastating as tenants face sky-high rents, fewer rights, worsening conditions, and government policies of aggressive deregulation. PAUL KERSHAW reviews two books linking the current housing crisis with globalisation and the financial markets. Originally published […]

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#Capitalism’s Housing Crisis #Socialist Alternative #Culture #Economy #Book Review #Books #David Madden #Fannie Mae #Freddie Mac #Housing #Housing Crisis #Manuel B Aalbers #Peter Marcuse #Review #leftpress #news #opinion #media #the left press #press

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I. There are two cardinal forms of spatial injustice:   A.The involuntary confinement of any group to a limited space – segregation, ghettoization – the unfreedom argument.   B. The allocation of resources unequally over space –the unfair resources argument. II. Spatial injustice is derivative of broader social injustice –the derivative argument. III. Social injustices always have a spatial aspect, and social injustices cannot be addressed without also addressing their spatial aspect – the spatial remedies argument. IV. Spatial remedies are necessary but not sufficient to remedy spatial injustices – let alone social injustice – the partial remedy argument. V. The role of spatial injustice relative to social injustice is dependent on changing social, political, and economic conditions, and today there are trends that tend both to decrease and to increase the importance of the spatial – the historical embeddedness argument.

Peter Marcuse, “ Spatial Justice: Derivative but Causal of Social Injustice” (pdf) at Justice Spatiale Spatial Justice

#peter marcuse #urban planning #spatial justice #urbanism

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dispatch on the unrest in belfast

in the late 1950s a group of British Army soldiers from Northern Ireland became notorious for butchering civilians in Cyprus. they were defending the British occupation from the EOKA, led by (no, really) General Grivas, who wanted reunification with Greece. despite Grivas attempts to prevent it the war quickly became a sectarian conflict between Christian Greek Cypriots and Muslim Turkish Cypriots. it was an extremely bloody conflict fought with civilian lives. for the first time in war the pipe bomb replaced the heavy artillery.

when the British surrendered in 1960 those soldiers returned home and, in order to combat the Catholic civil rights movement, became involved in civilian loyalist organisations like the Loyal Orange Lodge until in 1966 when they formed the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). their innovation was to apply the experience in Cyprus to Northern Ireland to defend a partition which was not, at this stage, actually under attack. that year they carried out a string of random killings on the Catholic Falls Road. the civil rights movement developed into an armed struggle for national liberation, the British Army was deployed to combat it, and the UVF were transformed into anonymous soldiers for apartheid, armed by the South African regime, among others, and receiving clandestine support from the British.

pictured: Gusty Spence, first prince of loyalist terror, flanked by his retainers

when Gusty Spence, the leader of the UVF, was caught and imprisoned, he gradually lost control of the organisation. by the end of the 70s it had turned from a politically motivated death squad into an organized crime syndicate and was competing with several other paramilitary rackets, especially the UDA who still control the drug trade in Protestant areas. when Gusty Spence got out of prison he and several other former UVF brigadeers would join the Progressive Unionist Party, which combined loyalism with socialism. they were instrumental in negotiating the ceasefire known as the Good Friday Agreement in the 90s.

the sectarian killings died down but never disappeared. the far-right DUP, led by arch-reactionary Ian Paisley and maintaining secretive associations with both the Loyal Orange Lodge and the UVF (alongside Paisley’s several failed attempts to create his own paramilitary organization known as Third Force), became the dominant unionist party and the dominant party in Stormount, while Sinn Feinn, the political wing of the Provisional IRA, had become the leading republican party throughout the 1980s. apart from a few weak gestures they both agreed on a bunch of austerity cuts and fought tooth and nail against abortion and so on, reiterating the “carnival of reaction north and south” in microcosm.

throughout the 2000s a lot changed. the sectarian Royal Ulster Constabulary was disbanded and replaced with the dysfunctional Police Service Northern Ireland. the loyalist paramilitaries generally decomissioned as requested. it seemed like things were changing. by 2011 the final report of the Independent Monitoring Comission was cautiously optimisitc, writing that “In our first year [2004], each week there were on average four victims of paramilitary violence, some in sectarian incidents. In the last six-monthly period on which we reported the number was about a third of that and none were sectarian” (IMC, pg. 14). but already in 2003 Peter R. Neumann, a researcher on terrorism and partisan conflict, predicted that “the current peace process may not be the ending of the conflict but the suppression of it into the politics of threat and coercion” (Neumann, Britain’s Long War, pg. 1). fifty years after Marcuse was worried about ‘repressive desublimation’ in America, we were finally enjoying the good old ‘disciplinary society’ in Northern Ireland.

the loyalist paramilitaries went through a profound involution, becoming ethnoreligious dictatorships with exclusive police authority over the communities they claim to represent, battling among each other for control over housing estates. they possessed exclusive control over the black market, forced all businesses to pay them protection, and controlled most commercial services (taxi cabs, window cleaners, and so on). they exiled troublemakers, wounded lawbreakers, and murdered their opponents. your neighbours are taken away in the middle of the night and no one asks what happened. you wake up to breaking glass and gunshots, but no screams. then the paramilitaries appropriate the house of their victim and lease it out themselves. the IMC make an uncharacteristically wry remark that this is just “one amongst many ways in which paramilitaries continued to do what they had always done, namely doing violence to their own communities.” (IMC, pg. 14)

The Comission writes that “when we started we observed a scene from which terrorism against the organs of the state had largely disappeared,” yet “as we close we see classic signs of insurgent terrorism” (IMC, pg. 15). the very next year, in December 2012, the UVF and UDA were able to mobilize a huge crowd of Protestants in a campaign of civil disobedience over the removal of the Union Jack from City Hall. this was the first time since the partition that loyalism had taken on the appearance of a genuinely popular movement, looking more like Catholic civil rights marchers of the 60s than Black & Tans. the transformation of loyalism into a form of militant political activism with its own demo circuit was one of a few significant changes of the last decade (we won’t have time for the others in this post). throughout the 2010s they carried out agitprop, pamphleteering, posting up placards and organizing protests against the traitors, touts and frauds at Stormount, even training their own professional activists like Jamie Bryson, all soliciting Protestants to help them protect their cultural identity, heritage and the usual hogwash.

the sedition intensified when, on the 11th of July, 2018, in order to protest ... something, all over Co. Down and Belfast masked and armed volunteers hijacked busses and cars and burned them out, blockaded the roads with burning tires, and hid pipe bombs in the wreckage (BBC). but there was no pretension that this was an act of popular will. it all happened before 5am, and the UVF immediately contacted the police and the press to claim responsibility.

now on the seventh day of violent unrest in Belfast we find this tendency reaching its fullest expression. the events are widely reported on as ‘riots’, but the attacks are identical to the UVF sedition in 2018 and, anyway, require a level of organization which only a paramilitary possess. the difference is that in this instance, like in the Flag protests of 2012-2013, the paramilitaries were able to mobilize ordinary Protestants. but how mobilized are they?

“When the hostage espouses the cause of the terrorist ... then another justice is active than the justice of the law, other scales than the scales of justice.” (Baudrillard, Cool Memories V 2000-2004)

whenever an ordinary person is beaten, shot, exiled or killed by the UVF, our neighbours do not, as we do, hide under their beds and pray. instead, very often, they celebrate. they regard acts of terror as occasions for saturnalia; they come out into the street and cheer, they open buckfast or bacardi, they call their friends to let them know, and in their voices one hears earnest excitement. after the involution of terror we can no longer really blame this on the red mist of bigotry. it makes no difference to armoured Protestants whether the victim is enemy or friend. the order of the spectacle wins out over the mode of terror.

if one looks closely at the events in belfast, common people are present but they are spectators, not participants. elderly women and babies in prams along with their families line up along the sidewalk to watch and cheer while the professionals blow things up. if this is a riot, it’s a strange kind of riot. in some sense The Belfast Riots Did Not Take Place. the pipe bomb returns to Belfast as a simulation of the pipe bomb of the Troubles, already a simulation of the pipe bomb of the Cyprus Emergency, a retaliation to an attack that hasn’t happened yet. but pay close attention to the redirection that has taken place; the bomb is thrown, not into the window of a Republican bar, like the petrol bomb that killed Matilda Gould, but into a line of riot police, like the pipe bomb at the Haymarket riot.

so, what’s next?

some commentary has been made about the fact that the military has been deployed to settle the unrest. this seems like something new, perhaps the first time since the Good Friday Agreement. but, in fact, the military were already deployed in Northern Ireland from the beginning of COVID-19 to support the health services and supply logistics (BBC). it’s significant that they were not called in for the 2012-2013 Flag protests or the ‘Day of Disorder’ in 2018. the state of exception brought about by the pandemic has possibly adjusted the scales. furthermore, the military, previously arming and collaborating with the UVF, are now being deployed specifically to prevent them.

the IMC reported that very few of the killings, by 2011, were sectarian. the Flag protests were sectarian only indirectly, affirming the Protestant ‘siege mentality’, but the enemy was Stormont and not the specter of armed republican revolution. the 2018 disorder had no sectarian content at all. conversely, the incident which incited this week’s Belfast Riots was much more explicitly sectarian. it’s a lot of horseshit: they (prominently, the DUP) wanted Michelle O’Neill, Deputy First Minister and member of Sinn Feinn, arrested for violating COVID restrictions to go to a funeral. the riots began the day the PPS decided not to prosecute. the contention is that COVID restrictions are being unequally enforced between Protestants and Catholics. a paranoid inversion of the real inequality was typically a justifciation for sectarian violence during the Troubles. in one of the most violent moments of the riot the Lanark Way peace wall, separating the Falls and the Shankill, was set on fire and breached, Protestant rioters storming the Catholic street and attacking its residents (the Guardian).

is this the last gasp of an old order of sectarian violence, quickly being replaced by a new kind of reactionary populism? or are these the early ripples of a new, increasingly violent sectarian resurgence? will the tensions between the UVF and the British Army continue to escalate, or will the civil war transform into an ethnic conflict, like in Cyprus? we cannot anticipate the outcome. but the last 6 days seem like significant ones to me. we should remain sensitive to the changes that are coming.

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Character Actor

Theodore “Theo” Carroll Marcuse (August 2, 1920 – November 29, 1967)  Character actor who appeared frequently on television in the 1950s and 1960s, often portraying villains.

On television he appeared on many series, including The Beverly Hillbillies, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Wild Wild West, Have Gun – Will Travel, Bonanza, Hogan's Heroes (the 1967 episode "The Hostage", as General von Heiner, filmed not long before his fatal car accident, first airing two and a half weeks after his death), Batman, Star Trek (episode "Catspaw", first airing the week of Halloween in 1967, one month before his death), The Time Tunnel, I Spy, The Monkees, Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, The Untouchables, The Twilight Zone episodes "The Trade-Ins" and "To Serve Man", and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes "The Re-collectors Affair," "The Minus-X Affair," and "The Pieces of Fate Affair". (Wikipedia)

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