I would like to propose another reading of Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire– partial, perhaps even biased. This reading would in fact emphasize the complex conception of history that can be read between the lines. And since the seminar rule is to rely on a commentary, the reading I have chosen is that of Jacques Derrida, in Specters of Marx, published in 1993. [Continue reading here…]
Judith Revel
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J’aimerais proposer une autre lecture du Dix-huit Brumaire de Louis Bonaparte de Marx– partielle, partiale, peut-être même biaisée. Cette lecture voudrait en effet insister sur la conception de l’histoire complexe que l’on peut lire entre les lignes. Et puisque la règle du séminaire est de s’appuyer sur un commentaire, la lecture que j’ai choisie est celle de Jacques Derrida, dans Spectres de Marx, en 1993. [Continuer à lire ici…]
Foucault, alter-marxist? Return to the question of illegalisms: Law, history, and subjectivation Judith Revel Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne [NB: The original text in French is below, following this English translation] First and foremost, of course, I’d like to thank Bernard Harcourt for organizing this great seminar series – I was thinking this morning that I have taken part in five CCCCT seminars since 2016. This year is my sixth, and I’m delighted and proud of it, thank you. I can’t begin, however, without apologizing a little for my presence in this context: I’m not a Marx specialist, and what justifies […]
In Marx 13/13, we return to Marx’s key texts and read them through the lens of world-historical interpretations that pushed Marxian thought and praxis in new directions: toward operaismo or workerism, Black Marxism, feminist, queer and transgender theories, postcolonialism, cultural studies, Freudian or Foucauldian strands of Marxism, as well as Leninist, Maoist, and social democratic forms of Marxism. [Continue reading here…]