Reading List // December 2022

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Selections from the Web:

Baker, Erik. 2022. “Reenchanted Science: How did Cormac McCarthy become a shill for libertarian utopianism?” The Baffler. December 22.

Bianchi, Pietro. 2022. “Triangle of Sadness: To Have Done with the Carnival of Power.” e-flux Notes. November 30.

McManus, Matt. 2022. “Just Call It Fascism: Alexander Dugin’s fraudulent ‘fourth way.’” Commonweal. November 27.

Noakes, Christian. 2022. “’Everything that is human is ours’: The political and cultural vanguardism of Antonio Gramsci and José Carlos Mariátegui.” Monthly Review Online. December 20.

Roussinos, Aris. 2022. “Did Ukraine Need a War?” UnHerd. July 1.

Books and Journal Articles:

Books:

Dawdy, Shannon Lee. 2021. American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the 21st Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

McCarthy, Cormac. 2022. Stella Maris. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Miéville, China. 2022. A Spectre Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

Traverso, Enzo. 2016. Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory. New York: Columbia University Press.

Book Chapters:

Brody, Samuel Hayim. 2015. “Is Theopolitics an Antipolitics? Martin Buber, Anarchism, and the Idea of the Political.” In Dialogue as a Trans-disciplinary Concept: Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue and its Contemporary Reception, edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr, 61–88. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Farocki, Harun. 2017. “On the Documentary.” In Supercommunity: Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art, edited by Julieta Aranda, Briant Khan Wood, and Anton Vidokle, 181–185. New York: Verso.

Keller, Catherine. 2018. “Apophatic Afterward.” In Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public, 159–180. New York: Columbia University Press.

Journal Articles:

Collins, Samuel Gerald. 2022. “Ghostly Encounters on Google: Spirit Photography, Reverse Image Search and Urban Critique in Baltimore.” Semiotic Review 3.

Ishchenko, Volodymyr. 2022. “Ukrainian Voices?” New Left Review 138: 1–10.