15 Articles by: Malcolm Harris
Malcolm Harris is the editor of Share or Die: Youth in Recession forthcoming from New Society Publishers in the spring.
“That Secret Fire”: Italo Calvino & the Primacy of Labor
This essay is the first in a short series I’m doing for this blog about the idea of “the party” on the left and its relevance at the current moment, inspired by Bhaskar’s post on Jodi Dean’s talk, “The Communist Horizon.” I start with the writer Italo Calvino and Italian lessons on the party from the fifties.
“That Secret Fire”: Italo Calvino & the Primacy of Labor
This essay is the first in a short series I’m doing for this blog about the idea of “the party” on the left and its relevance at the current moment, inspired by Bhaskar’s post on Jodi Dean’s talk, “The Communist Horizon.” I start with the writer Italo Calvino and Italian lessons on the party from the fifties.
On Gucci Mane and Capital, Part II: “She’ll Go to War with Anybody”
This is the second installment in a multi-part series called “Everything You Wanted to Know about Marx but Were Afraid to Ask Gucci Mane,” on understandings of capital in Gucci Mane’s 2010 album The Appeal. Last week, I wrote about the thirteenth track, “Brand New.” This week it’s track five, “Making Love to The Money.”
On Gucci Mane and Capital, Part I: “Feeling Brand New”
This is the first installment in a multi-part series called “Everything You Wanted to Know about Marx but Were Afraid to Ask Gucci Mane,” on understandings of capital in Gucci Mane’s 2010 album The Appeal. As befits my first post here at Jacobin, I’m starting with the thirteenth track, “Brand New.”