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MARX, POLITICS? AND PUNK
Volume 25, No. 1 Fall 2010
Editors' Note
Contributors
Fredric Jameson: A New Reading of Capital
Is Capital about labor, or unemployment? Does
Marxism have a theory of the political, or is it
better off without one? Fredric Jameson previews
the argument of his forthcoming book, Representing Capital.
Anna Kornbluh: On Marx?s Victorian Novel
As out of place as Marx himself might have been
in Victorian England, Capital is less out of
place than one might have thought among
Victorian novels. But this does not have to mean
that its mode of truth is literary. Anna
Kornbluh explores the tropes that propelCapital
in order to establish the novel relationship
Marx produces between world and text.
Roland Boer: Marxism and Eschatology Reconsidered
The variations on the thesis of Marxism?s
messianism are too many to count. But is it
plausible to imagine that Marx or Engels took up
Jewish or Christian eschatology, in any
substantial form, into their thought? Roland Boer weighs the evidence.
Reiichi Miura: What Kind of Revolution Do You Want?
Punk, the Contemporary Left, and Singularity
What does punk have to do with Empire? What does
singularity have to do with identity? What does
the logic of rock ?n? roll aesthetics have to do
with a politics of representation? What does the
concept of the multitude have to do with
neoliberalism? The answer to all these
questions, argues Reiichi Miura, is a lot more than you might think.
Alexei Penzin: The Soviets of the Multitude: On
Collectivity and Collective Work:
An Interview with Paolo Virno
One of the principle conundrums that confronts
the theorization of the multitude is the
relationship it entails between individual and
collective. Alexei Penzin, of the collective
Chto Delat / What Is To Be Done?, interviews Paolo Virno.
BOOK REVIEWS
Nata?a Kova?evi?: New Money in the Old World:
On Europe's Neoliberal Disenchantment
What is left of the promise that was Europe?
Does anything Utopian remain of the European
project, or is it destined to become just
another neoliberal power? Nata?a Kova?evi?
reviews Perry Anderson?s The New Old World.
Kevin Floyd: Queer Principles of Hope
In the ?marketplace of ideas,? Marxism and queer
studies are often presumed to be divergent and
even opposed discourses. Contemporary work in
both fields makes the case for a convergence.
Kevin Floyd reviews José Esteban Muñoz?s
Cruising Utoptia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity.
Madeleine Monson-Rosen: Under a Pink Flag
Is there a feminine relation to copyright in the
contemporary period? Madeleine Monson-Rosen
reviews Caren Irr?s Pink Pirates: Contemporary Women Writers and Copyright.
