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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · 6d

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

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Oct 8

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Oct 8

Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism, edited by myself and @maybenansi.bsky.social, is out now with Bloomsbury!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/understan...

Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism

Presents the most wide-ranging and in-depth exploration of the influence of modernist art and literature on Jacques Lacan, emphasizing the valences of Lacanian…

www.bloomsbury.com

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Oct 1

I reviewed the latest translation of Brazilian architect Sérgio Ferro's writings for this month's issue of The Brooklyn Rail brooklynrail.org/2025/10/art_...

Sérgio Ferro’s Design and the Building Site | The Brooklyn Rail

The field of architectural history has remained largely uninterested in the construction site as an object of analysis. The recently translated writings of Brazilian architect Sérgio Ferro enjoin us t...

brooklynrail.org

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thanks Dominique!

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Jul 12

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...

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Apr 14

For Parapraxis, I wrote about Marx and Lacan. “Is there something inherent to Lacanianism itself that leads towards a politics of reaction?” www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bad...

Bad Object — Parapraxis

Errant Marxist-Lacanian ideology Thomas Waller

www.parapraxismagazine.com

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Apr 10

Some reflections on the new Gillian Rose lectures and the question of style for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/thomas_walle...

Critical Inquiry

A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago

criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Apr 2

I've got a short review of Irene Small's new book on Lygia Clark and modernism in this month's issue of The Brooklyn Rail brooklynrail.org/2025/04/art_...

Irene V. Small’s The Organic Line | The Brooklyn Rail

Despite its epochal importance in the trajectory of modern art, the organic line has hitherto been excluded from official histories, which have tended to rely on categories like the grid, the monochro...

brooklynrail.org

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Sean O'Brien @seanobrien.bsky.social · Feb 17

I interviewed Bev Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Vale in Marx’s Capital.

Up now at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social

endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Jan 11

There is a review of Roberto Schwarz and World Literature in today's Folha de S.Paulo (@folha.com): "Um livro britânico sobre Roberto Schwarz fala em urdu da China e Beethoven" folha.com/74xygd1e

Opinião - Mario Sergio Conti: Um livro britânico sobre Roberto Schwarz fala em urdu da China e Beethoven

O livro é bom não só por realçar os feitos de um pensador brasileiro, mas pelo que traz sobre a literatura mundial

folha.com

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Dec 30

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/

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Dec 30

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/

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Dec 30

Contributors take up the challenge of Schwarz's dialectical criticism by offering new readings of Urdu literature (Sahota), Israeli science fiction (Nir), Chinese political economy (Karl), and Guyanese speculative fiction (Niblett) 4/

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Dec 30

The chapters evaluate Schwarz's work in dialogue with the Frankfurt School (Durão; Della Torre), with Antonio Candido's work (Brown), with postcolonial studies (Larsen), and with world-literary studies (Cevasco; López; Waller) 3/

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Dec 30

The book discusses key Schwarzian concepts such as 'misplaced ideas', 'volubility' and 'objective form'. In the intro, I provide an overview of Schwarz's intellectual formation, covering his reading of Marx in Brazil, his correspondence with Adorno, and his exile in Paris 2/

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Dec 30

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/

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Feb 13

250 word abstracts are due by May 5th 2024. Full essays of 2000-3000 words are due by August 28th 2024. If you've got any questions, feel free to get in touch with either Sean or myself!

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Feb 13

@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/

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Dec 29

I've got an article out in the latest issue of
Qui Parle on art, autonomy, and subsumption. It's called 'Stably Unusual: Artistic Labor and Aesthetic Autonomy', and you can check it out here: read.dukeupress.edu/qui-parle/ar...

Stably Unusual: Artistic Labor and Aesthetic Autonomy

Abstract. This article critically compares two recent approaches to the problem of aesthetic autonomy: Dave Beech’s Art and Value and Nicholas Brown’s Autonomy. By recentering the differences betw...

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Sean O'Brien @seanobrien.bsky.social · Nov 20

First instalment in the new series on Marx & the Climate Crisis now up at the 87. www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...

Marx and the Climate Crisis #1: Marx and Nature by Sean O’Brien — the87press

This four-part lecture series asks what we can learn from Marx about the climate crisis: its origins, its impacts, and what possible solutions we might seek in the face of increasingly inadequate go...

www.the87press.co.uk

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Nov 9

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!

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Sep 25

Abstract and info available here: www.rhome.letras.ulisboa.pt/pt/aulas-abe...

Rhose 25 | 26 setembro 2023, 11h00 - RHOSE 2023 - Aulas Abertas - Representations of Home

Abstract In his early reading of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady, originally written in English and then translated into Portuguese for publication in A Sereia e o desconfiado (1965), the...

www.rhome.letras.ulisboa.pt

thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · Sep 25

Thanks Anna -- happy to send over the talk if interested

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