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Making the Dull Compulsions Sexy Again

Making the Dull Compulsions Sexy Again

The Class Matrix is essential reading. It’s too bad it’s wasted on academics.
Cale Brooks Mar 30, 2022
Class Politics and Status Politics

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.
Joseph R. Gusfield Oct 6, 2021
Abundance, Scarcity, and the Race/Class Short-Circuit

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.
Aurora Borealis Aug 5, 2020
Applied Roganism

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.
Elia Tommaso Apr 10, 2020
From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part Two

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.
Chris Crawford Sep 24, 2018
From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part One

From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part One

The "political" is contemporary art's idée fixe.
Chris Crawford Sep 17, 2018
Race and Class

Race and Class

Only when we see the working-class as a class-for-itself may we say anything concrete about its supposed “racism.”
Harry Chang Sep 10, 2018

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