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davidfresko
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In other words “how”
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
And Happy Mother’s Day by Leacock and Chopra. Here’s Chopra editing with her daughter on her lap.
May 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Both versions of Imitation of Life are essential.
May 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Salo paired with the images of Noem styled like a pornstar in front of people in cages.
March 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
And I would add Robert J. C. Young's "Postcolonialism" as a central text that moves from its titular framework towards emphasizing Tricontinentalism as the more capacious and productive political-ideological framework for left internationalism.
March 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"All at once these rich contributions—really part of a substantial, interlocking system of writing in the broadly Marxist environs of critical theory, left philology and the solidarity movements—were abruptly severed from the present." 3/3
March 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"...the writings of Oliver Cromwell Cox on race and class; Basil Davidson on African state-formation; Leo Wiener on the role of Africa in the pre-Columbian New World; the acute imperial histories of James Morris, V. G. Kiernan, and Eric Wolf; C. L. R. James on Lenin and black liberation..." 2/x
March 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Of the development of so-called post-colonial theory, Brennan writes, "Key precursors were left out of the conversation, even as their ideas were often quietly borrowed: Jean-Paul Sartre and Les Temps modernes; the Chilean media critique led by Armand Mattelart in the early 1970s..." 1/x
March 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This article by Timothy Brennan from NLR from 2014 sums up the global stakes of 20th century anti-colonialism: newleftreview.org/issues/ii89/...
Timothy Brennan, Subaltern Stakes, NLR 89, September–October 2014
If the post-colonial theory that emerged as a militant intellectual project in the 80s has faltered over the past decade, against a backdrop of actual imperialist excursions, Vivek Chibber’s critical ...
newleftreview.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM