Speaking on a couple of panels at the
@histmat.bsky.social conference this week in London

For @eflux.bsky.social, I wrote about Jaleh Mansoor’s new book and Marx’s metaphor of “universal prostitution” www.e-flux.com/notes/678337...

Finally, in Leandro Pasini's chapter, there is an engagement with Schwarz's poetry collection Corações Veteranos (Veteran Hearts) and his play A Lata de Lixo da História (The Dustbin of History), which are little-known if discussed at all in the anglophone world 6/

The book also includes one of the first English translations (by myself and emilio sauri) of the work of Paulo Eduardo Arantes, an influential Brazilian Marxist thinker, a scholar of Hegel, and a long-time interlocutor of Schwarz's writing 5/

Roberto Schwarz and World Literature is now out in hardback with Palgrave Macmillan, marking the first book-length engagement in English with Latin America's foremost dialectician and one of the all-time great Marxist literary critics 1/

For next year's (virtual) ACLA, I'm organising a seminar with Carson Welch on 'Hegel and World Literature'. Please do consider sending in an abstract to us, and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions!

www.acla.org/hegel-and-wo...

@seanobrien.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue of CLCWeb entitled 'Keywords for Value and Culture'. The aim is to bring together short essays that explore the dialogue between value-form theory and Marxist cultural studies. Details in the CFP below! docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb_cfp/1/

For anyone attending the Historical Materialism conference in London this weekend, I’ll be speaking on the roundtable ‘Keywords for Value and Culture’. If you’re free on Saturday morning 11:00-12:45, be sure to come along for the discussion!

I'm giving a talk on Roberto Schwarz and Henry James tomorrow at the University of Lisbon. If anyone's in the city and wants to attend, feel free to get in touch! Details are on the poster.

New Penguin Classics/Companhia das Letras edition of Roberto Schwarz's writings to be published in Portuguese in November. Seems like it will include some of his early stuff, like the 1964 essay on Fellini's 8 1/2 (a banger).