...Andrew Zimmerman Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory Andrew Zimmerman Sometime in the 1850s, Guinea Sam Nightingale was shot from a cannon in West Africa, landing some 5,500 miles away in Boonville, Missouri.1 Upon...

...Elizabeth Heath Abstract This intervention offers a critique of the New Histories of Capitalism (NHC) and its project to write the history of capitalism without engaging Marx’s theorization of capitalism and crisis. It develops this critique by historicizing the food and agricultural crises...

..., clothing, or other items. The natural value ofthese products, for Proudhon, was exactly equal to the value oflabor. This was how workers reproduced their own life, and why wages functioned as a "reproductive fer­ ment:' Proudhon directed his politics toward a living wage. Karl Marx, by contrast, saw wage...

... Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is about You: There she begins by invoking Paul Ricoeur's characterization ofKarl Marx, Friedrich Nietz­ sche, and Sigmund Freud as engaged in a "hermeneutics of suspicion:'1 Unlike Ricoeur, who saw the hermeneutics ofsuspicion as both...

... ofinteracting with the world without the mediation ofan exclusive international domain. The fifth part follows Marx's writings on the International Working Men's Association and elaborates a distinction that he makes in his writing be­ tween international and world, a distinction that forecloses the possibility...

... in Marx's discussion of primitive accumulation at the end ofthe first volume of Capital, in which he dismantles the stories told by classical political economists about the origins of capi­ talism. Instead of a nursery tale about good people and bad people, about an industrious and frugal elite and the lazy...

... is involved? -Karl Marx, "On the Jewish Question; 1843 We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power; on the contrary, one tracks along the course laid out by the general deploy­ ment of sexuality. -Michel Foucault, TheHistory ofSexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, 1976 Emancipation...

...Kristin Ross Notes on the 'Cellular Regime ofNationality' Kristin Ross Our Flag is the Flag ofthe Universal Republic When Marx wrote that what mattered most about the Paris Commune of 1871 was not any ideals it sought to realize but rather its own "working exis­ tence;' he underlined the extent...

... feelings, heroism, and divinity:'39 Performed under the watch oflaw enforcement, the cancan's sexualized mockery was symptomatic of the July Monarchy's symbolic flaws. 69 Carnival Balls and Penal Codes Heine's no less perceptive friend in Paris, Karl Marx also associated the cancan with politically...

... between labor and the primitive in art.Nolde and Heidegger each invoke a mystified primitive in their understandings ofart and in theirimplicit understandings of labor.Jacques Derrida's Truth inPainting and Karl Marx's theory of primi­ tive accumulation (urspriinglicheAkkumulation), by contrast, each...

... we have the courage to reclaim them, to overturn the internalized regime ofshame and the social hierarchies that derive their strength from it? Theproblemofexcessis as much material as it is emotional. A halfcentury earlier than Freud, Karl Marx, for example, told an influential materialist variant...

... Christian and Spier, however, are careful to avoid such mystifications; they are quite clear that the process of increasing complexity is not to be confused with the narrative of progress implied by earlier theorists of universal his­ tory from Hegel through Marx and Spencer, and chaos and entropy are vital...

... colonized 124 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT peoples with an opportunity and responsibility to remake the world by chal­ lenging the impoverishing effect ofmodern imperialism, racism, capitalism, and instrumental reason on all peoples. I suggest that we understand their aims in terms ofwhat Marx called "human...

... looked or insufficiently analyzed. I will, thus, focus on the various attempts to employ "gender" in contemporary discussions ofmigrants'-and especially Muslims'-integration by means ofsome ofthe conceptual tools offered by Karl Marx's discussion in Capital ofthe "reserve army oflabor" in its current...

... offree individuals. Its nature is transracial, transnational, and transtemporal-building bridges among traditions. The heroes, the parties, and the masses of the French Revolution, wrote Marx, "achieved in Roman costumes and with Roman phrases the task of their time:'40 Ifthe French Revolution quotedRome...

.... For one thing is clear about the body of texts identified by the term theory : they begin with a set of European philosophers, maybe Paul Ricoeur’s “masters of suspicion”—Marx, Nietzsche, Freud—or maybe some other list (32–33). If we generalize this European thought as universal, we do not merely repeat...

..., early and late, is supported by too simple a notion of repression. Here the antagonist is Freud, not Marx. "Ihave the impression that {the notion of repression} iswhollyinadequate to the analysis of the mechanisms and effects of power that it is so pervasively used to characterize today" (PK 92...

... body of work (for example, Marx, Foucault, or Frank Wilderson), 1 just as one might the Gospels or Paul’s epistles to the Corinthians. Hall certainly offers us critical tools for grappling with the contemporary moment, but a distinctive quality of his writing is his ability to offer key insights...

... Present The Iberian Slave Trade and the Racialization ofFreedom Daniel Nemser 117 Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory Andrew Zimmerman 140 Zones ofRefuge: Fugitive Memories ofViolence in the Work ofFX Harsono Karen Strassler...

... draws a distinction between older forms of European imperialism, already theorized by such thinkers as Marx, Lenin, and Luxemburg, to name just a few of the Marxist thinkers who have conceptualized it, and what they call “Empire” in the late twentieth century and which they associate with three...