Friday, June 20, 2008

David Harvey, British-American Marx Warrior

David Harvey is a beer-drinking, British Baltimore guy and geographer. He is the author most famously of The Condition of Postmodernity, which together with Jameson's Postmodernism came to pretty much inform a whole sub-cadre of marxist cultural theory associated with other badasses like Stuart Hall, etc.

Now he's doing a righteous set of youtube lectures on Capital. And with all due respect to the lots of sorta embarassing carry-ons and also-rans parading under the drab awning of "Marxism," this shit is real. As is Marx, of course. It's just those guys with the banjos and the newspapers and most of all, the functionalist explanations of political events that really chafe me. I do love me some trotskyist faction action tho.

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