A comparison of the two, unpacking policies, ideologies and capitalist economies, indicates diverging tracks.
With the waning of American-led globalization, and its legacy of militarization, are their avatarsβRussia, Turkey, Iranβre-emerging, equipped with Israeli drones? Rustbelt regions, embedded in national contexts beset by persistent geographical polarizations, yet stubbornly consequential for their political outcomes.
Marxism is premised on the possibility of a political economy structured to meet human needs, rather than generate private profit. Could a New Deal capitalism in principle be capable of satisfying them?
Translation of two texts from a seminar on the question of need. In the s, the Hegelian notion of a struggle for recognition was reclaimed by critical theorists to conceptualize the politics of subaltern identities. But in platform-mediated civil society, even the powerful seem to feel under-recognized. What becomes of the struggle for recognition in the reputation economy? What kind of judgment does the gimmick demand?
What is the position of the aesthetic object in capitalist relations of production? In an era of stagnation and sputtering economies, can out-of-control growth explain the climate crisis?
