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>ANNOUNCING THE PUBLICATION OF
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>THE RED CRITIQUE
>An Electronic Journal of Revolutionary Marxism
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>". . . nothing less than 'radical' transformations will satisfy [them]."
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>-- Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt, denouncing THE RED CRITIQUE in their
> ACADEMIC KEY WORDS: A DEVIL'S DICTIONARY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.
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>THE RED CRITIQUE: An Electronic Journal of Revolutionary Marxism will
>publish its inaugural issue in the Fall of 1999.
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>THE RED CRITIQUE aims at red-ing social and cultural theory for new
>revolutionary praxis.
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>It will publish biannually theoretical essays engaging issues from labor
>to sexuality; from (cyber)colonialism to emerging forms of fascism; from
>health care and the welfare-state to "globalization"; as well as short
>essays providing Marxist analysis of the "daily": interpretation of major
>events, films, exhibitions of paintings and photography, trends in popular
>culture, music and fashion, and discussion of television and emerging
>forms of communication and identities on the "web." At a time when the
>concept of "materialism" itself is being hybridized by the dominant
>bourgeois writings and turned into further grounds for the "playful," THE
>RED CRITIQUE will work to publish historical materialist analyses of
>contemporary capitalism which privilege the material--not as the matterism
>of textuality that now (following a neo-de Manian "reading") masquerades
>as "materialism," nor materialism as the trope of an ahistorical and
>spectral matter-ism of "desire," "the body," and "fantasy"--but as the
>materialism of "production," "labor," "need," and "class struggle."
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>THE RED CRITIQUE invites texts which critique-ally engage with the
>economics, politics, and culture of contemporary capitalism from a Marxist
>internationalist perspective which is neither "nostalgic" for the past,
>evasive of the struggles of the present, nor interested in simply
>fantasizing about a utopian future, but which can provide transformative
>understandings of contemporary social practices in all spheres of the
>social.
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>The first issue of THE RED CRITIQUE is focused on:
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>KNOWLEDGE, INC.: LABOR, INTELLECTUALS, AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM
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>The issue will address, among other things, the political economy of
>knowledges; the claims made that knowledge and not labor is now the source
>of value in the new capitalism; the myth of the death of the proletariat .
>. . as well as the role of intellectuals in social transformation and
>their own incorporation into the knowledge industry and the neoliberal
>economic order: what Patrice Riemens has described as "how intellectuals
>seem to have deserted--en masse--their role (and duty) as providers of
>critical thought, to become communication mangers for Capital, whether
>paid or not."
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>The issue will also publish short texts on current political and cultural
>issues.
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>The deadline for the texts to be considered for the first issue is August
>1, 1999. Submissions may be sent as electronic attachments, by Mac or PC
>disks, and by hard copy.
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>We invite interested persons to read some of our texts at our websites,
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><http://redcritique.org>
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><http://redtheorycollective.org>
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>and to address all inquiries to:
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>THE EDITORS
>THE RED CRITIQUE
>P.O. Box 4254
>Stony Brook, New York, 11790-0905
>USA
><mailto:editors at redcritique.org>editors at redcritique.org