Critical Theory Working Group
@crit_theory_grp
resources & open reading groups for collective study of early critical theory / patreon: http://patreon.com/crittheoryworkgroup
NEW: The latest in the CTWG Racketology dossier, “The Economic Limits of Racketology” by Mac Parker (@hitmeupontwitta ), testing the Frankfurt School’s racket theory against Milios & Sotiropoulos’ critique of the “monopoly capitalism” paradigm! ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Limi…
Die Aktion, vol. 6, no. 35/36, September 2, 1916 #artbots #schiele
New online: Marx and Engels as Polyglots By Kaan Kangal historicalmaterialism.org/article/marx-a…
Horkheimer in 1935 on the dialectical reintroduction in a truly human society of nobility by birth. Translated by @gruidae_james
Adorno’s letters to WB are wild because they’re often like sorry for the delay my parents were almost killed in a pogrom but i think I can get them out; now let’s talk about your Baudelaire essay. WB’s of course have the same form:I’m fucked;I strongly object to your Wagner piece
My article on the antinomy of encore-loving and -hating is an attempt at a music-oriented critical theory inspired by Adorno. It’s been in the works for a long time and is the closest I’ve come to saying something. Thanks to @crit_theory_grp and @slavonicdances for your notes.
NEW RECORDING: DISCUSSION “Rackets, Monopolies, & Imperialism” (3/29/25) with Mac Parker (@hitmeupontwitta )! We read Milios & Sotiropoulos’ critique of the monopoly capitalism paradigm to test the limits of Horkheimer & Adorno’s essays on Racket-theory patreon.com/posts/13456049…
This thick boi is perhaps the best Marxist-oriented introduction to the Critique of ever read. Banaji is kinda nuts lol.
Frantz Fanon would have been 100 years old today! Although I love his two classic works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, I encourage you all, on his birthday no less, to get to know Fanon better. Read his letters, psychiatric writings, speeches and plays!
thrilled to run an excerpt from Free Gifts in the new @NewLeftReview asking what freedom might mean if we stop treating nature as a free gift
For the @Parapraxis_Mag resistance issue I wrote about the lines of flight forged by some of the most important revolutionaries of our time. Among other things, this piece is my perspective on Black-Palestinian solidarity
CLR James on the meaning of Fanon’s life/work as “a hymn to the idea of revolution” for the future: he both models & demands the revolutionary criticism of civilization & the relentless self-criticism of revolution, without which the whole earth is damned libcom.org/article/dubois…
Today in 1961, Frantz Fanon died aged 36. 🧵
Herbert Marcuse was born 127 years ago today. In the early 1970s, he introduced the term "preventive counterrevolution" to describe a political situation of hegemonic reaction that still prevails today.
Happy 133rd Birthday to Walter Benjamin who was born on this day in Berlin
To a togetherness that doesn’t crush what is different under its wheels
Happy 133rd Birthday to Walter Benjamin who was born on this day in Berlin
Happy birthday Walter Benjamin, who was, most importantly, a communist