{"title":"The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture, by Carl Freedman. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.","authors":"J. Rieder","doi":"10.4324/9781003209355-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003209355-19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45610,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48184942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Late Neoclassical Economics as Neoliberal Neurosis","authors":"David Primrose","doi":"10.1080/08935696.2021.1945230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2021.1945230","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary reflects on the potential of Madra's Late Neoclassical Economics for comprehending neoliberalism. Extending Madra's work, it presents an ideology critique of late neoclassical economics (LNE) as articulating a social fantasy of harmonious market order that enables neoliberal proponents to structure their reality against the Real of Capital. Madra's exposition of LNE's orientation around the theoretical problematic of neoclassical humanism enables consideration of neoliberalism as informed by an obsessional neurotic logic, whereby subjects postpone encountering the Real via repeated ideological modifications to preserve their fantasy against traumatic incursions. Exploring the conditions of possibility for functioning markets, LNE reinforces the fantasy of market order through theoretical innovations rationalizing increasingly intensive measures to realize it. Thus, symptoms bleeding through gaps between the Symbolic reality of neolibealism and the Real of Capital are disavowed as market and cognitive failures, foreclosing critical engagement with capitalist dynamics. This is illustrated through examining the new institutional economics of development as disavowing the violence of capitalism.","PeriodicalId":45610,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"581 - 594"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08935696.2021.1945230","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45541295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conversation with David F. Ruccio on His Blog","authors":"Kenan Erçel","doi":"10.1080/08935696.2021.1935527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2021.1935527","url":null,"abstract":"This interview with the former editor of Rethinking Marxism discusses David F. Ruccio’s long-running, highly successful, and humbly titled blog, Occasional Links & Commentary on Economics, Culture and Society. With thousands of posts and well over a million views, the blog has become a one-person digital magazine of impressively wide reach and sweeping scope. In the conversation, David F. Ruccio reflects on his motivations for initiating and continuing the blog since its move to WordPress in 2009; the role of social media in popularizing Marxian analyses; the (dis)similarities of blogging versus teaching; and many other topics with his trademark erudition and frankness.","PeriodicalId":45610,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"335 - 354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46235007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Temporal and Material Dimension of Creative Work: Against “Automatic Society”","authors":"J. Noonan","doi":"10.1080/08935696.2021.1935544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2021.1935544","url":null,"abstract":"The main focus of Bernard Stiegler’s critique of automatic society is the threat that automatic systems pose to human creative work in undermining possibility by eliminating the available time that it takes human beings to think and work through problems posed by the relative independence of the material world. When humans work creatively, they do not automatically translate ideas into reality. Instead, the object constantly poses unexpected challenges that must be reflected upon and worked through. Surprisingly, even Marx ignored the temporal dimension of work involving the material world. Through the example of artistic work, this essay illustrates and begins sketching a solution to the threat that automatic society poses to creative work. Against Marx, it shows that artistic work is never a case of simply imprinting an idea on a passive material substratum but is always a struggle through which the idea changes in the process of its realization.","PeriodicalId":45610,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"415 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43628126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Anticapitalist Archive","authors":"Sean Mallin","doi":"10.1080/08935696.2021.1935539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2021.1935539","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reflects on David Ruccio’s blog, Occasional Links & Commentary, in light of his broader work on economic representations: a project that decenters economic knowledge beyond the ivory tower in order to understand how other kinds of economic knowledge are formed and how they might offer alternatives to existing economic arrangements. The blog can be understood as an instantiation of that project: an anticapitalist archive that breaks down the boundaries between academic and everyday perspectives on the economy and between what are often seen as separate spheres of economics, politics, and culture.","PeriodicalId":45610,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"370 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47742617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Book Symposium Commentaries on Modern Advertising and the Market for Audience Attention","authors":"Zoe Sherman","doi":"10.1080/08935696.2021.1924474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2021.1924474","url":null,"abstract":"The key question I attempted to answer with my book Modern Advertising and the Market for Audience Attention. was the question of how the commodification of attention happened. In turn, three scholars – Shahram Azhar, Nora Draper, and Daniel Pope – raised important questions about my book. They raise interrelated interpretative questions about the agency and consciousness of audiences and the relation between mass appeals and narrowly targeted marketing. They also raise the philosophical, ethical, and political question of how to respond to attention commodification. In this response I engage their questions, though with few definitive conclusions (especially on the last point).","PeriodicalId":45610,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"450 - 457"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46690943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anticap: An Appreciation","authors":"Bruce B. Roberts","doi":"10.1080/08935696.2021.1935536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2021.1935536","url":null,"abstract":"David Ruccio’s blog, Occasional Links & Commentary, having grown out of postings created for his students at the University of Notre Dame, continues to focus on teaching its audience, putting information and trends into the context of a self-consciously Marxian understanding built from the concepts of class and surplus, understood not as a taxonomy but as process. From revealing the pretensions of neoclassical economics by examining the ongoing economic impacts of events, such as the Second Great Depression, to addressing theoretical controversies and misrepresentations, such as with Modern Monetary Theory, the blog not only examines policy choices and encourages readers to criticize and press for changes but also prods readers to consider more than the usual form of policy choices, beyond governments as actors and citizens as consumers of the consequences.","PeriodicalId":45610,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"366 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48961437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Revolutionary Potential of Food Sovereignty: Applying Lenin’s Insights on Dialectics, the State, and Political Action","authors":"Anthony Pahnke","doi":"10.1080/08935696.2021.1935551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2021.1935551","url":null,"abstract":"This essay elaborates a conception of sovereignty that highlights its revolutionary potential. Its argument addresses the nature of different movement strategies in the ongoing struggle for food sovereignty and how movements ought to confront the state while simultaneously using it to create a transformative, potentially anticapitalist form of governance. This claim is built from critiques of the state and sovereignty in studies of radical democracy. The essay then presents how Lenin connects sovereignty to proletarian governance. A revolutionary conception of sovereignty, developed by placing discussions of Lenin’s work in dialogue with practices of food sovereignty, is found in collective political action that suspends state power and challenges private property to create alternative economic and noneconomic forms of organization. This dialectical rendering of sovereignty entails constructing a new order by simultaneously conflicting with and acting through the existing one.","PeriodicalId":45610,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"378 - 395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44005723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David Ruccio: An Appreciation","authors":"R. Wolff","doi":"10.1080/08935696.2021.1935542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2021.1935542","url":null,"abstract":"In expressing his appreciation for the work of David Ruccio’s blog, Occasional Links & Commentary, Richard Wolff discusses the common experiences of faculty members working from heterodox economics theories in the U.S. university system following the turn to neoclassical economics. After the marginalization and eventual removal of the notable heterodox economics department at the University of Notre Dame, Ruccio turned to blogging as a way of translating academically formulated concepts into and for general discussion with a wider readership that includes activists, social critics, academics, journalists, and a new generation of leftist politicians. This work of “popularization,” rather than nonscientific, has constituted an important contribution to long-overdue social change.","PeriodicalId":45610,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"374 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46218745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tracing the Birth of the Audience Commodity: A Review of Zoe Sherman’s Modern Advertising and the Market for Audience Attention","authors":"Nora A Draper","doi":"10.1080/08935696.2021.1924472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2021.1924472","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars in the field of critical political economy of communication have long considered how the media industry’s economic arrangements have influenced modern capitalist systems. Notably, these scholars have argued that the media industry’s primary goal has been the construction of an “audience commodity” that can be sold to advertisers. In Modern Advertising and the Market for Audience Attention: The US Advertising Industry’s Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Transition, Zoe Sherman outlines the origins of this idea of the consumable audience. This review highlights the significant contributions of Sherman’s work for communication scholars. Moreover, it considers whether economic models that stress the power of information and data ownership are best suited to challenge the contemporary realities of surveillance capitalism, the roots of which Sherman traces to the professionalization of the advertising industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.","PeriodicalId":45610,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"444 - 449"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44367868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}