Historical Materialism

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    Humanism Contra Post-humanism.Sunyoung Ahn - 2023 - Historical Materialism 31 (1):63-92.
    Post-humanism accuses humanism of inventing a human subject who is domineering and destructive. As a remedy, it redefines the human as a being informed by passivity and finitude and bound by ontological vulnerability. In so doing, it undermines the creative and transformative power of human agency and obliterates politics and history as shaped by human actions. Noting how this intensifies the experience of alienation and de-humanisation, the essay looks to Marxist and socialist humanism to resuscitate the idea of humans as (...)
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    Pandemic Capitalism: Metabolic Rift, World-Ecology Crossing Dialectical Biology.Jacopo Nicola Bergamo - 2023 - Historical Materialism 31 (1):93-121.
    In this article, I contrast two of the main schools of thought within eco-Marxism, namely Metabolic Rift (MR) and World-Ecology (WE). These differ above all else in their accounts of the ontological status of society and nature. The Covid-19 pandemic constitutes a moment of concretisation of this long-standing debate, which is able to dissolve at least in part its issues. The article consists of four parts. I begin with a summary of the two schools of thought and their core stances, (...)
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    The Future is the Termination Shock: On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering. Part Two.Andreas Malm - 2023 - Historical Materialism 31 (1):3-61.
    As capitalist society remains incapable of addressing climate breakdown, one measure is waiting in the wings: solar geoengineering. No other technology can cut global temperatures immediately. It would alleviate the symptoms of the crisis, not its causes. But might it be combined with radical emissions cuts? This essay, the final instalment of two, subjects geoengineering to a materialist psychoanalysis and argues that it represents a fantasy of repression, setting itself up for a dreadful return of the repressed.
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  4. Passages of a Marxist Critique of Art in Peru: From Artworks to Plastic Objects (1976–82).Mijail Mitrovic Pease - 2023 - Historical Materialism 31 (1):122-158.
    This essay explores the theory of the plastic object as it was developed by the Peruvian art critic Mirko Lauer in the 1970s and 1980s, in dialogue with other ideas related to the Teoría Social del Arte (Social Theory of Art) developed in Latin America. Focusing on the Peruvian cultural debate, the author reconstructs Lauer’s trajectory and emphasises his critique of ‘Marxist aesthetics’, and explores them as conceptual tools for discussing the horizon of contemporary art today.
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    Missives for the Future? Michael Löwy’s Close Encounters with the US Left.Alan M. Wald - 2023 - Historical Materialism 31 (1):159-190.
    The oeuvre of Brazilian-born and Parisian-educated Michael Löwy is widely recognised as the achievement of an exacting revolutionary cultural worker who integrates theory with his political duties, and labours hard at his craft so that the poetic imagination can reclaim and thereby re-enchant the reified reality of capitalist modernity. Nevertheless, when we come to Löwy’s reputation in the United States we face a curious situation. There is no doubt that his work is known and respected among many activists and scholars. (...)
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    Introduction to the Symposium on Massimiliano Tomba’s Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity.Panagiotis Sotiris - 2023 - Historical Materialism 30 (4):55-61.
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