Making the Dull Compulsions Sexy Again
The Class Matrix is essential reading. It’s too bad it’s wasted on academics.
Class
Class Politics and Status Politics
An excerpt from a classic text on the rise of Prohibition distinguishing class politics from the symbolic, expressive movements of status politics.
Abundance, Scarcity, and the Race/Class Short-Circuit
Just as black struggle is taken to stand in for working-class struggle, so too is the present enemy of black struggle—the police—taken to stand in for the capitalist class.
Applied Roganism
Politics for most people is a means to an end. If we fail to highlight solidarity and shared material interests over ideological purity or identity, we will fail to transform the abstract support of disaffected voters into actual engagement.
From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part Two
Art’s desire to endlessly demonstrate its compromised place ultimately makes it as monotonous as the commodity culture from which it tries to distinguish itself.
From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part One
The "political" is contemporary art's idée fixe.
Race and Class
Only when we see the working-class as a class-for-itself may we say anything concrete about its supposed “racism.”