Juliet Mitchell: “I don’t think anti-psychiatrists such as Laing and Cooper saw the schizophrenic as the madman telling the truth. What we had were two sets of rigidity, we had the pathological dimension of psychosis in paranoia, schizophrenia: delusions — which are delusions, let’s face it. But then we had the normative delusions of an [...]
February 14th, 2009 | Chris Cutrone | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "1960s"
Platypus NYC screening: The Handsmaid’s Tale (1990)
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
6:30pm
New York University Sociology Department
Puck Building
295 Lafayette st. 4th FL
New York, NY 10012
University of Chicago, SAIC, MIT, NYU reading group starts January 11
1960s paths not taken (1): Civil Rights – Black Power
Platypus Marxist readings for Sunday January 11, 2009
· Richard Fraser, Two Lectures on the Black Question in America and Revolutionary
Integrationism (1953)
· James Robertson and Shirley Stoute, “For Black Trotskyism” (1963)
Spartacist League, “Black and Red — Class Struggle Road to Negro Freedom” (1966)
· Bayard Rustin, “The Failure [...]
January 1st, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Capital in history: The need for a Marxian philosophy of history of the Left
Chris Cutrone
[The following is a talk given at the Marxist-Humanist Committee public forum on The Crisis in Marxist Thought, hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago on Friday, July 25, 2008.]
I want to speak about the meaning of history for any purportedly Marxian Left.
We in Platypus focus on the history of the Left because [...]
Obama: Progress in regress: The end of “black politics”
Chris Cutrone
The election of Barack Obama will be an event. But it has proven confusing for most on the “Left,” who claim to want to overcome anti-black racism and achieve social justice. Rejection of Obama on this basis has been as significant as the embrace of his candidacy. There is as much anxiety as hope [...]
Requiem for the ’60s: Response to a boycott of discussion of “40 years of 1968”
The Platypus Historians Group
The Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago, in coordination with several chapters of the new Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Chicago (at the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Columbia College, Chicago) organized a public forum on “40 years of 1968: the problematic drama of [...]
Jeff Wall: The Return of the Modern? (a Review)
Laurie Rojas
One of the highlight exhibitions of the summer of 2007 in Chicago was The Art Institute’s retrospective exhibition on the work of Jeff Wall. This occasion marked the first time that the Art Institute exhibited a solo show of a photographer. Jeff Wall’s large-scale color transparencies, mounted in light boxes, covered the same walls [...]
February 2nd, 2008 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | Continued
A Prelude to the History of the Left
In subsequent issues Platypus will serialize a “History of the Left”. The phrase has a strange ring to it! A human being has a history, a nation, a people have a history. One is not the “same person” one was twenty years ago perhaps, yet one can not make sense of who one is now without a sense of who one “was” even if that person has come to seem as alien as a stranger. A people too may “remember” its past, its becoming, its suffering, its ancient glories and yet no living member of that people may have experienced any of these. Such remembering and rethinking what has been whether personal and collective is obvious to us. But “the Left”?
November 1st, 2007 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | Continued