Pam C. Nogales C. and Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 46 | May 2012 On March 17, 2012, Ross Wolfe and Pam Nogales of the Platypus Affiliated Society interviewed Domenico Losurdo, the author, most recently, of Liberalism: A Counter-History (2011). What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. Full video of the interview can be found at <http://vimeo.com/38923840> Ross Wolfe: [...]
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Changes in art and society: A view from the present
Mary Jane Jacob, Robert Pippin, and Walter Benn Michaels Platypus Review 46 | May 2012 On 31 March 2012, the Platypus Affiliated Society invited Mary Jane Jacob (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Robert Pippin (University of Chicago), and Walter Benn Michaels (University of Illinois at Chicago) to speak on the theme of “Changes in Art [...]
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Splits, regroupments, war, and revolution in Germany, 1914–1920: A conversation with Ben Lewis
Spencer A. Leonard and Watson Ladd Platypus Review 46 | May 2012 Last winter, on their radio show Radical Minds on WHPK-FM Chicago, Spencer A. Leonard and Watson Ladd interviewed Ben Lewis, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and co-author and translator, together with Lars T. Lih, of Zinoviev and Martov: Head to Head in [...]
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The occupation of art’s labor: An interview with Julia Bryan-Wilson
Chris Mansour Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF] On November 28, 2011, Chris Mansour interviewed Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009). Mansour and Bryan-Wilson talked about the history of the Art Workers’ Coalition and [...]
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Learning from the Communist Movement of the 20th century
A response to Richard Rubin Grover Furr Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF] RICHARD RUBIN ARGUES that “the 1930s were a decade of defeat for the Left.” His essay, “1933,” in the Platypus Review issue on The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century,[1] is an idealist abstraction from real historical events, one founded on [...]
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The New Left zombie is dead! Long live Occupy!
David Haack Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF] In the Eighteenth Brumaire, Marx disagrees with Hegel’s famous quote about history when he writes, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce…”[1] Occupy [...]
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What is the #Occupy movement?
A roundtable discussion Hannah Appel, Erik Van Deventer, Nathan Schneider, Brian Dominick, and Jeremy Cohan. Platypus Review 44 | March 2012 [PDF] Late in 2011, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a series of roundtable debates on the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. Speakers at the event held on December 9, 2011 at New York University included Hannah Appel (OWS [...]
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Marx at the margins: An interview with Kevin Anderson
Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 44 | March 2012 [PDF] Last summer, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Kevin Anderson, author of Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism (1995) and Marx at the Margins (2010). The interview was broadcast on August 2, 2011 on the radio show Radical Minds on WHPK–FM Chicago. What follows is an edited transcript of their [...]
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Occupy everything…and?
Reflections on the problems and possibilities of a movement David Bush Platypus Review 44 | March 2012 [PDF] MY INITIAL REACTION to the occupation of Wall Street was generally positive. But soon that feeling gave way to doubt and unease. I still find much hope in so many people taking to the streets, but I’ve become less [...]
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The movement as an end-in-itself? An interview with David Graeber
Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 43 | February 2012 [PDF] On December 16, 2011, Ross Wolfe interviewed David Graeber, Reader at Goldsmiths College in London , author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004), and central figure in the early stages of the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Ross Wolfe: [...]
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