ANNOUNCING THE PUBLICATION
OF
THE RED CRITIQUE
An Electronic Journal of Revolutionary
Marxism
". . .
nothing less than 'radical' transformations will satisfy [them]."
-- Cary
Nelson and Stephen Watt, denouncing THE RED CRITIQUE in
their
ACADEMIC KEY WORDS: A DEVIL'S DICTIONARY FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION.
THE RED
CRITIQUE: An Electronic Journal of Revolutionary Marxism will publish its
inaugural issue in the Fall of 1999.
THE RED CRITIQUE aims at red-ing
social and cultural theory for new revolutionary praxis.
It will publish
biannually theoretical essays engaging issues from labor to sexuality; from
(cyber)colonialism to emerging forms of fascism; from health care and the
welfare-state to "globalization"; as well as short essays providing Marxist
analysis of the "daily": interpretation of major events, films, exhibitions of
paintings and photography, trends in popular culture, music and fashion, and
discussion of television and emerging forms of communication and identities on
the "web." At a time when the concept of "materialism" itself is being
hybridized by the dominant bourgeois writings and turned into further grounds
for the "playful," THE RED CRITIQUE will work to publish historical materialist
analyses of contemporary capitalism which privilege the material--not as the
matterism of textuality that now (following a neo-de Manian "reading")
masquerades as "materialism," nor materialism as the trope of an ahistorical and
spectral matter-ism of "desire," "the body," and "fantasy"--but as the
materialism of "production," "labor," "need," and "class struggle."
THE
RED CRITIQUE invites texts which critique-ally engage with the economics,
politics, and culture of contemporary capitalism from a Marxist internationalist
perspective which is neither "nostalgic" for the past, evasive of the struggles
of the present, nor interested in simply fantasizing about a utopian future, but
which can provide transformative understandings of contemporary social practices
in all spheres of the social.
The first issue of THE RED CRITIQUE is focused on:
KNOWLEDGE, INC.: LABOR, INTELLECTUALS, AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM
The issue will address, among other things, the political economy of knowledges; the claims made that knowledge and not labor is now the source of value in the new capitalism; the myth of the death of the proletariat . . . as well as the role of intellectuals in social transformation and their own incorporation into the knowledge industry and the neoliberal economic order: what Patrice Riemens has described as "how intellectuals seem to have deserted--en masse--their role (and duty) as providers of critical thought, to become communication mangers for Capital, whether paid or not."
The issue will
also publish short texts on current political and cultural issues.
The
deadline for the texts to be considered for the first issue is August 1, 1999.
Submissions may be sent as electronic attachments, by Mac or PC disks, and by
hard copy.
We invite interested persons to read some of our texts at our
websites,
and to address
all inquiries to:
THE EDITORS
THE RED CRITIQUE
P.O. Box
4254
Stony Brook, New York, 11790-0905
USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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