When a young woman cop in the movie Kathal streaming on an OTT, counters an upper caste man by normalising the idea of lower caste people as thieves, what we witnessed as viewers is the process of ...

Georg Lukács, a Hungarian Marxist philosopher born in 1885, made significant contributions to the understanding of economic determinism, particularly in relation to art and literature. Lukács’ ...

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Apparently freely available online for the first time here, this 1930s book is far less well known… ...

Up till now, we have considered radical thought as a critique of the substance of Marxism: of the content of Marx's ideas and, after 1917, of their realization. We have not yet looked at the critique ...

Macki’s immersive installation forces visitors to move through the space with intention, shifting perspectives on labor, worth and the unseen. Courtesy the artist and Mattress Factory What, exactly, ...

Long time readers know that I'm generally OK with reification as long as we don't take it too seriously. And we do that all the time. An "object" is really only an "object" in a human-sense. Reduced ...

In Donald Trump’s 2005 hot mic conversation with entertainment reporter Billy Bush, he confessed to kissing women and grabbing their genitals without their consent. I’ve previously noted how Trump, on ...