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Essays on Capital, First Series: Essay One
Essay 1: Capital and the historical moment From commodities to citizens. O garment not golden but gilded, O garden where all men may dwell, O tower not of ivory, but builded By hands that reach heaven from hell; O mystical rose of the mire, O house not of gold but of gain, O house of unquenchable fire, Our Lady of Pain! “Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)”, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866) The Civil War: Revolution in Labor Relations The Civil War ended in 1865 bringing about the cessation of hostilities between the United States and the Confederacy. After four years and … Continue reading Essays on Capital, First Series: Essay One
Essays on Capital, First Series: Essay Number Zero
By way of an introduction … “It is simply misleading and vulgar to say of Marx, as Edmund Wilson in To the Finland Station and many others have done, that he was really a latter-day prophet[.]” – “Piety without content,” Susan Sontag [1961] “Marx’s thought marks a watershed. Its roots reach back to Joachim of Fiore and further, to the inspired utterances of the Old Testament prophets.” – Reasons for Our Rhymes: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of History, R. A. Herrera [2001] “Better dead than Red.” – Anti-communist saying [c. 1950s] Karl Marx is a controversial, misunderstood, and often … Continue reading Essays on Capital, First Series: Essay Number Zero
Driftless Area Review January Update
Here’s what’s happening at the Driftless Area Review for January 2018. Continue reading Driftless Area Review January Update
Driftless Area Review Metapost
A general update on the business of the Driftless Area Review blog. Continue reading Driftless Area Review Metapost
What I’m Reading 2012 and Other Business
What I’m Reading 2012 Overview: I’m currently reading five books. Each poses certain challenges (in some cases, self-imposed challenges) to me as a reader, reviewer, critic, historian, and aesthete. While New Year’s Resolutions get broken seconds after they’re uttered, these challenges will form an informal backbone to my reading schedule. As it stands, I want to increase the frequency of my blog posts from bimonthly to weekly. (The same goes for my other blog, Coffee is for Closers.) The positive responses from readers has really inspired me to do more. As you’ll see with these challenges, I want to “raise … Continue reading What I’m Reading 2012 and Other Business
Self-Referential 100th Post
Nothing like an arbitrary milestone for the blogosphere. This is the 100th post of the Driftless Area Review. It’s been a fun experience thus far. I’ve met new people and started receiving free review copies. I have enjoyed the works of the Permanent Press and enjoy the publishing philosophy of co-founder Martin Shepard. For those interested, I will continue my two long term essay series: The Art of Reviewing and Essays on Capital. I am currently half-way through Capital, Volume 2. The work presents more of a challenge, since the text is more technical, dry, and math-intensive than the first … Continue reading Self-Referential 100th Post
Biography Mondays: Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, by Gareth Stedman Jones
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion is an indispensable volume, an epic about a man and his times. Continue reading Biography Mondays: Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, by Gareth Stedman Jones
The Disorder of Things: Politics and The Printing Press in The Early Reformation (1517-1526)
Early modern Germany saw religious conflict weaponize the printing press. Continue reading The Disorder of Things: Politics and The Printing Press in The Early Reformation (1517-1526)
AMERICAN ODD: CONCLUDING UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT; OR, DIVERSE OPINIONS REGARDING OUR AMERICAN ODDBALL CO-INHABITANTS
A celebration of everything odd, strange, and bizarre abou America. Continue reading AMERICAN ODD: CONCLUDING UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT; OR, DIVERSE OPINIONS REGARDING OUR AMERICAN ODDBALL CO-INHABITANTS
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